The "Cntl /" operation was new to me but I am very bad about reading documentation. With a little searching, I found

http://www.otago.ac.nz/sas/win/zortcuts.htm

which lists this and other shortcuts. Oddly, when I followed a couple links to SAS pages, I did not find the Cntl / .

As for UNIX, I haven't clue but I did just find a NESUG 2009 paper by Sara Hickson which discusses a number of aspects of running under Unix. The link is

http://www.nesug.org/Proceedings/nesug09/ff/ff12.pdf

Nat Wooding

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Suzanne McCoy Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:51 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Shortcuts in Unix environment

/* */ or * ; work in any environment

the other depends on how you are editing the file. If using display manager you can use > or < on the line numbers to shift things. If using vi you can shift one line over like you want then move down to the next line and hit . to duplicate the action you just made on the line above.

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of franwdwyer@googlemail.com Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:16 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Shortcuts in Unix environment

Hi there,

When using SAS in the Windows environment, one can comment out code using the "Ctrl /" shortcut. I was wondering if there is any equivalent way of doing this when using SAS in the Unix environment. (SAS 8)

I would also like to know if anyone has found a nice way of shifting a block of text to the left or right by using a keyboard shortcut in the Unix environment for SAS 8.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

Fran