Editor doesn't work properly in SAS Studio - problems with backspace and single quote or forward tic

ThetaIchnaea — Sat, 09 May 2020 10:05:52 GMT

I'm new to SAS and SAS Studio. I installed the University Edition in Virtualbox, have that running, opened the link in the browser, opened SAS Studio. This all worked like expected. I started the tutorial "Writing a basic program" (about European cars), started writing the code myself, made a typo. At first the backspace worked, then it started to mess up things. Cursor jumped to the beginning of the editor, I could only add characters, or the delete key worked as backspace, the the editor stopped working alltogether.

The problem seems to be caused by my system (Ubuntu 20.04 with keyboard US intl with dead keys) transforming a single quote to a forwardtic (´) while typing. I've tried different keyboard layouts, and US Intl with Euro on 5 seems to work normally. Still it confuses me why this happens, and it looks like a bug.

What happens is this:

I type a single quote ('), and it appears at first like a forwardtic (´)
I type a space to make it a quote, and it transform into a single quote; this is how it should be and where this should end
I type a letter like (e) and then that single quote transforms back into a forwardtic

Now all goes wrong. If I do this in an editor like Vim, it works normally, and I've never had this problem, so it seems to have to do with the editor.

For now I've solved it by using another keyboard layout, but I would prefer to go back. Is this a known problem? Can I do something to fix this?

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Editor doesn't work properly in SAS Studio - problems with backspace and single quote or forward tic