@mycotropic wrote:
I've programmed with SAS since 1997 or so and I use SAS daily. I have never had a reason to use the "clear all" button in the right click mouse menu but I use "paste" many times per day on most days. That is I TRY to use "paste" and rarely my mouse is a little off and the next item on the menu is "clear all", boom, all of the SAS code is gone. It comes back of course when I accurately hit "paste" but then I'm in a document that has no name. Obviously I can rename it or choose the original name from the drop down for "save as" so I'm back up and running in very short order. What I don't understand is the purpose of "clear all" in the right click menu and I can't find a way to remove it or move it to a position where I'm less likely to accidentally click it. It's like a pothole at night, waiting there.. waiting for a chance to break my concentration. Insidiously waiting and needlessly present....
This is probably a personal problem that effects only me but I'd appreciate two things;
1) an explanation of why that option exists in the right click menu (perhaps also how often people use it)
2) the ability to either move or remove that option from the right click menu
Thanks
I would ask the question why do you use mouse click to paste (or copy) anything? The keyboard Ctrl-V for paste (at least windows world) means I don't have to move from the key board. I actually spend time looking for keyboard short cuts to avoid the mouse.
And for other repetitive things in SAS you may want to investigate the KEYS menu (F9) and editor or SAS commands.
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