thechampagne/sas-mode

sas mode for emacs

sas.el a sas mode for emacs

sas mode for emacs

Installation

1. Download (or clone) sas.el and put it in your emacs directory (for example the directory /home/foouser/.emacs.d/lisp)
2. To use SAS as another babel language, add the following to your .emacs

   (load "/home/foouser/.emacs.d/lisp/sas.el")
   (require 'sas)
       

   If you use ESS (for R) and sas you should disable the automatic loading of SAS-mode from ESS and load sas after:

   (require 'ess)
   (setq auto-mode-alist (delete '("\\.[Ss][Aa][Ss]\\'" . SAS-mode) auto-mode-alist))
   (load "/home/foouser/.emacs.d/lisp/sas.el")
   (require 'sas)
       

Philosophy

ESS does not update SAS-mode anymore. To have syntaxic coloration, session (as in python-mode) and keyboard shortcuts as in elpy or ESS, I have made a compilation of these sources into this sas.el. It could be used with ob-sas.el to make sas src block in org mode files. As I don’t have windows I don’t know if it works on windows.

Examples

1. Start sas

   In a file with sas mode enabled, start SAS with run-sas (M-x run-sas)

2. Submit commands

   sas comes with several shortcuts to submit sas commands

   (defvar sas-mode-map
    (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
      (define-key map "\C-c\C-r"   #'sas-shell-send-region)
      (define-key map "\C-c\C-b"   #'sas-shell-send-buffer)
      (define-key map "\C-c\C-j"   #'sas-shell-send-line)
      (define-key map [(control return)] #'sas-shell-send-dwim)
      (define-key map "\C-c\C-v"   #'sas-view-table)
      (define-key map "\C-c\C-q"   #'sas-exit)
      map)
    "Keymap for `sas-mode'.")
       

   • For instance a C-RET control-return (sas-shell-send-dwim) in a middle of a data step or a proc step will send the whole data step or proc step to SAS.
   • C-c C-v (sas-view-table) when point is on a SAS data-table print the first three lines (customize sas-view-maxnumber-of-rows variable to change the number of displayed rows). For users who prefer proc fsview sas-fsview-table or sas-fsview-edit-table can be used instead.
   • C-c C-q will close the SAS buffers

Config

• The custom variable sas-shell-interpreter is sas but it can be useful to point to another sas executable.
• The custom sas-sas-windows can be set to t if SAS windows is used
• The custom sas-realsession can be set to nil on windows in order to create a temporary user library and submit SAS region using SAS batch mechanism.
• For doom emacs

  the following code in config.el

  ;; to disable ESS SAS-mode
  (after! ess
  (setq auto-mode-alist (delete '("\\.[Ss][Aa][Ss]\\'" . SAS-mode) auto-mode-alist)))
  ;; sas-mode using sas.el
  (use-package sas)
  (after! sas
    (map! :map sas-mode-map
       :localleader
       "RET" #'sas-shell-send-dwim
       "r" #'sas-shell-send-region
       "j" #'sas-shell-send-line
       "v" #'sas-view-table
       "q" #'sas-exit
       "b" #'sas-shell-send-buffer))
      

  and the classical loading mechanism in package.el

  (package! sas
    :recipe (:host github :repo "Pierre-Andre/sas-mode"))
      

  should work.

• For windows user sas-sas-windows must be set to non-nil and sas-realsession must be set to nil, for instance using the following code in .emacs

  ;; to disable ESS SAS-mode
  (require 'ess)
  (setq auto-mode-alist (delete '("\\.[Ss][Aa][Ss]\\'" . SAS-mode) auto-mode-alist))
  ;; sas-mode using sas.el
  (load "/home/foouser/.emacs.d/lisp/sas.el")
  (require 'sas)
  (setq sas-sas-windows 't sas-realsession nil)