topic Re: Looking for SAS Enterprise Guide Keyboard Shortcut in SAS Programming

Looking for SAS Enterprise Guide Keyboard Shortcut

svh — Tue, 07 May 2019 14:20:31 GMT

Is there a keyboard shortcut--like there is in RStudio--that copies the current line of code to the next line.

/* For example: I may want to duplicate a class statement for another procedure. I often find that I need to re-use a line in another procedure*/

PROC LOGISTIC DATA=HAVE
   CLASS X Y Z;
   MODEL A = X Y Z;
   RUN;

PROC LOGISTIC DATA =NEXT;
  /*PUT COPIED STATEMENT HERE*/

That shortcut is Shift+Alt+Down arrow in RStudio. I could not find such a shortcut in the list of shortcuts in EG, but perhaps I'm overlooking something.

Re: Looking for SAS Enterprise Guide Keyboard Shortcut

Reeza — Tue, 07 May 2019 14:59:17 GMT

I don't think that's an option, which sort of makes sense in SAS, the lines don't build on one another like they do in R. Can you give an example of how/when that would be used? It woudn't make sense for the example you posted since you would never have two proc statements back to back like that.

@svh wrote:

Is there a keyboard shortcut--like there is in RStudio--that copies the current line of code to the next line.
/* For example: I may want to duplicate a class statement for another procedure. I often find that I need to re-use a line in another procedure*/

PROC LOGISTIC DATA=HAVE
   CLASS X Y Z;
   MODEL A = X Y Z;
   RUN;

PROC LOGISTIC DATA =NEXT;
  /*PUT COPIED STATEMENT HERE*/

   
That shortcut is Shift+Alt+Down arrow in RStudio. I could not find such a shortcut in the list of shortcuts in EG, but perhaps I'm overlooking something.

Re: Looking for SAS Enterprise Guide Keyboard Shortcut

svh — Tue, 07 May 2019 15:21:37 GMT

That was admittedly a poor example, but I work with a lot of data that needs to be recoded, so I'm frequently writing lines like the following:

else if Q2 = 2 then Program = 'Emergency Medicine';

It's rather easy to copy the line with a quick keyboard shortcut. But thank you for pointing out that this is not a feature in SAS EG.

Re: Looking for SAS Enterprise Guide Keyboard Shortcut

Reeza — Tue, 07 May 2019 15:22:40 GMT

For recoding, I highly recommend looking into PROC FORMAT, it's quite powerful and avoids having to do multiple IF/THEN statements.