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Ana Ferreira
Ana Ferreira

Reputation: 79

Shortcut to comment selected code in SAS Guide

is there some shortcut to just comment the selected code in SAS Enterprise Guide?

There is Ctrl + / to comment the selected line. But would be really useful to comment just a selected part of the code.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9313

Answers (3)

cc3125
cc3125

Reputation: 21

Tested and working in SAS EG 7.1.

Program > Editor Macros >MAcros > Record new

You can either follow the sequence in the right side of the snap or create that using the options provided by SAS in left side.

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Upvotes: 1

Dominic Comtois
Dominic Comtois

Reputation: 10411

You can create a Keyboard Macro for this (Program > Editor Macros > Macro...), as shown below. Only limitation is that the selection must be made from left to right / top to bottom. A workaround would be to use instead Cut selection, inserting /*, Paste from clipboard and inserting */. Drawback this time is that you'd lose previous clipboard content.

Edit Keyboard Macro - Comment Selected

Then, just assign it a keyboard shortcut, like CTRL-SHIFT-C for instance.

[EDIT]

While we're at it, here's another one to uncomment the blocks enclosed by /* and */:

Edit Keyboard Macro - Uncomment block

For this one, I assigned the keyboard shortcut CTRL-SHIFT-D.

Upvotes: 7

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 63424

The only built-in option in Enterprise Guide's keyboard shortcuts is to do line comments. You might be able to write a custom macro using Keyboard Macros (in Program -> Editor Macros), but I'm not aware of how that could be done.

Upvotes: 0

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