topic Re: EG 4.3 autocomplete off by one in SAS Enterprise Guide

EG 4.3 autocomplete off by one

Quentin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:39:49 GMT

Hi All,

I just noticed having an odd problem with EG code autocomplete. It seems to be off by one.

So if I type &file and hit space, it selects &extension, and replaces it.

If I start to type &method , after I have typed &me it guesses I'm typing &just

Any idea what could be going wrong? I have quit and restarted EG. And turned autocomplete off and on. Seems to be happening only in one program in the project.

Thanks,

--Q.

Re: EG 4.3 autocomplete off by one

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:59:41 GMT

Hi Quentin,

It looks like you have some "interesting" macro variables at least as far as EG detects (with "Fileref|Filename|Filepath"). Still could be an off-by-one issue in the editor, but perhaps only with your "special mix" of macro variables?

Chris

Re: EG 4.3 autocomplete off by one

Quentin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:20:00 GMT

You are right Chris. I should have paused to guess at why the autocomplete thought there were some odd macro vars. I'm in the habit of commenting my macro variables as below:

%global 
  file /* Fileref|Filename|Filepath/filename */
  method
  ;

While SAS respects those comments, looks like EG autocomplete word scanner (?) thinks everything before the semicolon is the name of a macro var, as in below simple example.

Guess some of that junk was tripping up how it autcompletes, causing the off-by-one (not shown below). When I took out the comments, it started working again.

Thanks much!

Re: EG 4.3 autocomplete off by one

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:42:58 GMT

Thanks for confirming. I'll pass that on the EG development team so they can investigate.

Chris