Text Editors

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Text Editors: necessary to run sas programs in batch mode, unless you use a SAS editor, of course ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

[edit] FreeWare

• emacs
  • http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
  • XEmacs http://www.xemacs.org/

• Free Programmers' Text Editors:
  • http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/editors.shtml
  • http://www.webmasterfree.com/downloads235.html

• Crimson Editor
  • http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

• jEdit
  • http://www.jedit.org/

• Notepad++
  • http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

• vim == Cream (*unix)
  • http://cream.sourceforge.net/home.html

• THE (The Hessling Editor)
  • "THE is a powerful text editor modelled on the VM/CMS text editor XEDIT with the best features of Mansfield Software's Kedit"
  • http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/

• PSPad (Tips for SAS programming with PSPad)
  • http://www.pspad.com/en/

• NEdit
  • http://www.nedit.org/

[edit] Purchase

• EditPad

http://www.editpadpro.com/

• ISPF on the Mainframe, you can use

SPFPC which is a PC version of this editor. Here's a link (one of many) to get it from: http://www.commandtechnology.com/main.asp?pg=SPFSEforWindows

• kEdit

http://www.kedit.com/

• Multi-Edit Lite Multi-Edit Lite for SAS 2006

a collection of edit macros, templates, and other tools that allow Multi-Edit Lite to become a "SAS IDE".

• NotePad

• SAS System Viewer ( provides a nice platform for batch work )

http://www.sas.com/apps/demosdownloads/setupcat.jsp?cat=Base+SAS+Software

• SPF/SE

http://www.commandtechnology.com/main.asp?pg=home

• TextPad

http://www.textpad.com/

• UltraEdit (Tips for sas programming with ultraedit)

http://www.ultraedit.com/

• WinEdt

http://www.winedt.com/

• WordPad

• Zeus IDE

http://www.zeusedit.com

[edit] References

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Batch_processing_under_Windows

--macro maven == the radical programmer 17:20, 7 June 2007 (EDT)