topic Re: How do I add syntax highlighting to Jupyter Notebook - SAS kernel? in SAS Programming

How do I add syntax highlighting to Jupyter Notebook - SAS kernel?

jnvickery — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:14:40 GMT

Hi,

I have installed the SAS kernel for Jupyter Notebooks following the instructions here:

https://sassoftware.github.io/sas_kernel/install.html#windows-install-assuming-sas-already-installed

I am able to connect to the SAS kernel and run code, view output, etc. but I have not been able to enable syntax highlighting. Any ideas as to how to enable that?

Here are a few more details about my installation:

Windows 7

SAS version 9.4 (TS1M0) is installed locally

Anaconda distribution of Jupyter

I edited the "sascfg.py" file to point to the path for SAS startup script and I edited the paths for the local classpath variable.

I also had to add the path to sspiauth.dll to my System PATH.

Thanks!

John

Re: How do I add syntax highlighting to Jupyter Notebook - SAS kernel?

ChrisHemedinger — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:26:09 GMT

Glad you got this going!

@Jared might be able to provide some guidance on the syntax highlighting.

Re: How do I add syntax highlighting to Jupyter Notebook - SAS kernel?

Jared — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 06:27:21 GMT

@jnvickery, You can add the SAS syntax by following the instructions here: https://sassoftware.github.io/sas_kernel/install.html#installing-sas-nbextensions

I wrote a couple of Notebook (NB) extensions that once enabled will allow you to use the SAS syntax coloring or hte python depending on your use case.

Jared

Re: How do I add syntax highlighting to Jupyter Notebook - SAS kernel?

jnvickery — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:34:38 GMT

Thanks @Jared!

That worked great. I hadn't realized that the functionality was controlled through the notebook extensions.

For anyone else installing the extensions...

When I first ran the commands to install and enable the extensions, I got the following errors:

[InstallNBExtensionApp] CRITICAL | Bad config encountered during initialization:
[InstallNBExtensionApp] CRITICAL | Unrecognized flag: '--py'

Updating jupyter notebooks with the following command and then re-running the install commands resolved the error.

"conda update notebook"

- John

Re: How do I add syntax highlighting to Jupyter Notebook - SAS kernel?

Jared — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:54:02 GMT

@jnvickery Glad it worked! The syntax actually comes from the CodeMirror mode for SAS if you find issues please let me know.

Jared