topic Autocompleting user-defined macro in EG in SAS Enterprise Guide

Autocompleting user-defined macro in EG

HongqiuGu — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:57:08 GMT

Hi, guys.

I have just switched from SAS DM to SAS EG.

One feature of EG is Auto-completion,including user-defined macro. But it only restricted to macro defined through the active program. The question is I have hundreds of defined macros, each macro is defined in a separated sas file. I have tried to use MAUTOSOURCE , and the Auto-completion doesn't work then. I also tried INCLUDE AND FILENAME STATEMENT, it doesn't work either.

So, any suggestion on how to make EG Auto-completes hundreds of user-defined macros?

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated .

Thanks.

Re: Autocompleting user-defined macro in EG

HongqiuGu — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:54:28 GMT

Keyboard MACRO may be a solution. Any other method?

Re: Autocompleting user-defined macro in EG

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:40:59 GMT

Perhaps editor abbreviations, which might be what you meant by "keyboard macro".

Take SAS program editor abbreviations to the next level - The SAS Dummy

Chris

Re: Autocompleting user-defined macro in EG

HongqiuGu — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 05:15:07 GMT

Thanks Chris.

You got exact what I mean.

Editor abbreviations is a kind of choice, but may not the best choice, Since Macro I defined may have lots of positional parameters. Auto-completion can also give some hints of what these parameters means when I 'm typing in EG, but Editor abbreviations will not.

Macro Auto-completion can only be done in the some code node in EG. If EG can do this in different code nodes, that would be better.

Thanks.

Hongqiu.