topic Re: SAS Editor for Eclipse IDE in SAS Programming

SAS Editor for Eclipse IDE

dmcd78613 — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 04:52:50 GMT

I use Eclipse IDE 2020-03 on both Windows 10 and Linux Mint as my web development platform. I would like to use this IDE for my SAS code as well. Does anyone know of an Eclipse plug-in that will provide SAS syntax highlighting?

Re: SAS Editor for Eclipse IDE

smantha — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:03:52 GMT

https://support.sas.com/en/software/appdev-studio-support.html#documentation

https://www.eclipse.org/community/casestudies/SASfinal.pdf

This thread is abandoned no longer supported https://sourceforge.net/projects/eslink/

and this thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4816211/installing-eslink-on-eclipse

However looks like it is not very popular with SAS developers. We are spoiled by the SAS dms. Let me know if any of this works for you.

Re: SAS Editor for Eclipse IDE

dmcd78613 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:21:13 GMT

The Eslink on SourceForge provided what I was looking for, which was simply a syntax highlighting SAS editor plug-in for Eclipse. Thank you!

Yes, long time SAS developers (myself, 33+ years - 24 of which were working for SAS) do love the DMS we've grown so fond of for so long, but many of us simply need an IDE like Eclipse that allows directly editing server based SAS source code with a minimum of overhead, and Eclipse allows that. This plugin makes it a bit nicer to have the syntax highlighting along with that. Again, thanks!