topic Re: Enhanced Editor shortcut keys in SAS Programming

Enhanced Editor shortcut keys

advoss — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:28:57 GMT

Online documentation for PC/SAS enhanced editor says "Ctrl + Shift + W" will "clean up white space". I cannot see what actually happens when I press that combination.

Can somebody explain what "clean up white space" does?

Thank you and my apologies if this is not the appropriate forum to post this question in.

Al Voss

Re: Enhanced Editor shortcut keys

Stephane — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:37:35 GMT

An indirect answer : I wanted to use CTRL+: to comment a line and it doesn't work. I redefine the shorcut to CTRL+; and it works.
Change the shortcut to test the aim of this command.

Re: Enhanced Editor shortcut keys

advoss — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:52:53 GMT

You do know that, by default, Ctrl + / and Ctrl + Shift + / comment and uncomment a line, right?

Re: Enhanced Editor shortcut keys

Peter_C — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:21:10 GMT

before pressing Ctrl+Shift+W, press Ctrl+A

Ctrl+A selects all lines
Any trailing blanks on a line will become obvious (assuming selected text is obvious)

After Ctrl+Shift+W is pressed, the lines remain selected, but there will be no trailing white space.

PeterC

Re: Enhanced Editor shortcut keys

advoss — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:53:47 GMT

Okay, I get it... Very useful, but I might have called it "Remove trailing blanks". Oh well, that's just me.

Thank you.

Al

Re: Enhanced Editor shortcut keys

Peter_C — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:01:12 GMT

more useful, I find the do-group and parentheses keys

Inside a data step do-group press ALT+[ (or alt with any other brace/bracket/parenthesis key)

The cursor will jump between the DO and END of the do-group.
When the cursor is on a ( or ) and you press Ctl+[ the cursor jumps to the matching parenthesis.

Another useful key is not programmed by default 😉
Assign an enhanced editor key (like ctl+alt+S) to the enhanced editor macro function, "sort selection".

there are more gems to discover !

PeterC