Date:         Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:21:52 -0400
Reply-To:     Jim Agnew <agnew@VCU.EDU>
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From:         Jim Agnew <agnew@VCU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SAS Text Editor
Comments: To: Peter <crawfordsoftware@GMAIL.COM>
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Excellent Question!!!!!  I can think of several..

I used to use DIGITAL's EDT and then TPU/EDT for a
Looooooooooooonnnnnnnnggggggggggg time... ;-)  Until all the keypad
activity on one hand started giving me trouble...

I then switched to Gvim, (Vi iMproved).  It's a superset of the vi
editor, and it has SAS syntax builtin, plus syntaxes (sp?) for almost
every known language..

Knowing and using ONE editor makes for very fast and efficent editing..
Plus, for me, using batch mode makes sure my SAS code encapsulates all
my logic, so it "remembers" what I did.  We had one user who left us and
all we had were fragments that was called into the interactive editor.

So, that's my case.  your mileage may and will vary! ;-)

J.

Peter wrote:
> On Apr 29, 6:42 am, hawks_cher...@YAHOO.CO.IN (cherish k) wrote:
>> Can somebody direct me to a good SAS text editor for Windows. Basically I need for just syntax highlighting (I don't need an editor with prompts etc).
>>
>> Thanks
>> Cherish
>>
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> any good reason not to use SAS ?
>

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