Hi Team
I posted a Playlist demonstrating what I consider the Best SAS Programming Editor ever made.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS2pNYD0QwbdHoSnn3p0_xSYDt1y1iDze
It was designed by the best programmers available in the late 1970's at the IBM Thomas J Watson Research in Yorktown Hieghts NY and
further advanced by the MVS/TSO operating system programmers at Myers Corners Road, Poughkeepsie NY.
Much of the IBM ISPF design, but not all unfortunately, was incorporated in the SAS Original Display Manager System.
SAS added mouse support and provided some simple scripting instructions that allow users to create editor commands, function key settings and mouse actions that can encapsulate all SAS functionality and can directly interact with text in the editor.
Key to the SAS design was the 'store' scripting instruction that allows high lighting of text in ANY of the program editors, logs and lists to be stored and processed by ALL of SAS via command macros. Command macros are part of the original 1980's SAS editor and encapsulate all of SAS functionality.
I have command macros written in the 8190's that I still use daily.
There are other editors especially editors that provide sophisticated error debugging and even integrate suggested code changes,
but I have developed some of these using SAS command macros like my simple 'debug' command macro, ie eclipse,
Since SAS is an interpreted language, so it does not need to support compiler and link-editing. SAS does not create compiled and link-edited objects like DLLs..
Roger
