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MinneapolisCoder9
MinneapolisCoder9

Reputation: 691

Is there a shortcut to run current code block, without selecting?

Many other IDEs have a feature to run the code block your cursor is placed in. According to the docs, SAS EG has the following shortcut:

Run the selected code -> F3

But is there a shortcut for the following?

Run code block your cursor is placed in -> X

It's tedious to have to constantly reach for the mouse to click-drag-select, then hit F3.

Preemptive thank you from the laziest lizard on earth.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2780

Answers (1)

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 63424

No, there is no shortcut (or way to create such a shortcut). SAS requires you to highlight it.

However, there are some options to make this easier. You can see the SAS EG documentation for some keyboard shortcuts; one option, for example, is to use code folding (Alt + numeric keypad hyphen) to collapse the current data step/proc step/macro, and then you can easily highlight that one line (with shift-end, as it places your cursor at the start of the line).

Also see this question and answer about SAS Enhanced Editor, which has the same basic solution, plus some other ideas.

Upvotes: 2

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