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DBailey
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

I have a fairly large sas program (1500 lines or so) linked in EG.  Whenever I'm editing the program near the end, EG freezes for 4-5 seconds after every character edit.  Just typing in the program is almost impossible.  Any suggestions on what may be causing this?

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ballardw
Super User

Cause, no, though I suspect there may be validation going on in the background.

Possible work-around (at least if you have an idea what you want to add): Use another editor to type and then copy paste into the EG editor.

I would recommend not using a word processor or fancy text editor but something plain like Notepad or an actually programming editor.

SASKiwi
PROC Star

Try turning off Autocomplete in Program options. What version of EG are you using?

DBailey
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

7.1

SASKiwi
PROC Star

I'm using 7.11 with Autocomplete off and have some fairly large programs, several thousand lines in some cases, and I don't experience your problem.

DBailey
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

looks like autocomplete was the culprit.  Still sometimes slow, but it doesn't hang like it was.

CaseySmith
SAS Employee


We are aware of certain scenarios in which the editor slows down when the Autocomplete feature is on and you are working with large programs.  The scenarios we are aware of were improved in 7.11.

Here is the related SAS Note:

54754 - In SAS® Enterprise Guide®, the Enhanced Editor might respond very slowly when the autocomple...


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SASKiwi
PROC Star

Actually I did experience your problem in earlier versions of EG, hence the reason I leave Autocomplete off.

If its an issue for you, consider upgrading to 7.11. Then you can use the new WHERE command in the table viewer, my favourite new feature.

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