Hallo there,
I just started using base sas 9.4 and is wondering why the auto complete does not show up as e.g. in sas Studio. I hope you guys can tell me how to activate it.
thanks in advance
Jens
Jens,
Are you using SAS Studio or the SAS Windowing environment?
In the SAS windowing environment, there isn't an autocomplete feature.
It should be available in SAS Studio.
Hello again
I am not sure what you mean by 'SAS windowing envisonment'. However, is used SAS studio in class but replaced it with sas 9.4. I have attached a picture of it.
What you have pictured is what is known as the SAS Windowing environment. It's different from SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Studio.
There is not an autocomplete feature for what you have shown.
Why oh why would that not be an option for a desktop application? What a huge remission...
Because display manager is really really old. : ) Rather than keep investing in it, SAS decided to develop new IDE's (Enterprise Guide and Studio).
The good news is, if you like studio, you should be able to use it as an interface to your local PC SAS. I'm pretty sure Studio comes free as part of the SAS/BASE license. The last time I installed PC SAS, there were options to choose which development evironments/interfaces you want to install.
Thanks, SAS 9.4 is already installed on my PC but it's not the Studio interface. I suppose I must re-install? I cannot understand why SAS would have two interfaces, one of which is clearly inferior and then not make the better one a default. Poor play.
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