User wants SAS code to return to Log window

[SASKiwi]

Please note that the SAS Windowing Environment interface you are using is in "maintenance mode" only now and so has not been enhanced for many years. I understand the web-based interface SAS Studio does exactly what you want and that is the interface now getting all the improvements.

[Quentin]

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@NKormanik wrote:

I did indeed.  Works nicely.  Thank you!

However, I'd still prefer PC SAS end up with the Log window top-most.

Such a simple request.

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I'm confused, what is it you don't like?  If you assign a function key to submit;log then the log should be top-most.  This ability to  customize windows via DM commands is one of the great features of PC SAS aka Display Manager SAS that isn't (IMHO) implemented as nicely in EG or Studio.

You can have a function key for (logically, I didn't look up the syntax): DM zoom off;submit;log; maximize;   You can have a function key for DM log; clear;program;submit;log;maximize. 

If you don't like using function keys, and prefer to click an icon (running man) when you submit, I'm pretty sure you can create and icon and have it run similar DM commands.

For log parsing, you can actually use DM commands to copy the content of the log window to a file.  

If you search lexjansen.com, you'll find plenty of papers by users who have used DM commands to customize their coding environment. See e.g. https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings12/151-2012.pdf 

Long live DM commands!  : )

If your complaint is that the installed default should be that SAS always shifts context to the log after a submit, I might agree with that.  But they made it so easy to configure this behavior, it's hard for me to see this as a fault.