Program Editor Options

You can configure aspects of the SAS/IML Studio program editor. The program editor is used to write and debug IMLPlus programs. IMLPlus programming is described in SAS/IML Studio for SAS/STAT Users and in the SAS/IML Studio online Help. You can display the online Help by selecting Help Help Topics from the main menu.

To display the Program Editor tab (shown in Figure 34.5), select Tools Options from the main menu, and click Program Editor.

Figure 34.5: The Program Editor Tab

The Program Editor tab has the following fields:

Enable automatic indention

specifies whether the program editor automatically indents new lines to match the indention of the previous line.

Enable syntax color coding

specifies whether the program editor color-codes keywords, string literals, comments, and predefined IMLPlus constants.

Allow cursor movement past end of line

specifies whether you can move the cursor beyond an end-of-line character in the program editor.

Insert tabs/spaces

specifies whether the program editor inserts a tab character or space characters when you press the TAB key, and when the program editor automatically indents a line.

Tab width

specifies the width (in characters) of the tab positions.

Display tabs as visible characters

specifies whether the program editor displays each tab character as the symbol .