If you highlight columns of text in the SAS Enhanced Editor using the ALT key and the mouse and choose delete, it might inadvertently delete text you did not intend to delete. Or, if you choose cut, no text is deleted. However, you can copy and paste the highlighted columns.

This problem surfaced in SAS 9.1.3 service pack 4.

To verify if you have the affected version of the Enhanced Editor, check to see if the file version for the coreedit.dll is 9.135.0.382 or 9.135.0.452. To see what version you have, in Windows Explorer, right-click the file and select Properties, then select the Version tab. The default location for the coreedit.dll is C:\Program Files\SAS\Shared Files\Enhanced Editor.

If SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® 4.1 is installed on your machine, then the workaround is to delete the text character by character. Refer to SAS Note 17821 "Unable to select and delete partial lines in Enhanced Editor of SAS® Enterprise Guide®."

To correct the problem in SAS, download and install an earlier version of the SAS Enhanced Editor, version 9.13.0.144. You must have administrator rights on your machine to install the Enhanced Editor. If you do not have administrator rights, then refer to the paragraph that follows these installation instructions.

To install the earlier version of the Enhanced Editor do the following:

1. Rename the C:\program files\SAS\shared files\Enhanced Editor folder to C:\program files\SAS\shared files\OLD Enhanced Editor.
2. Download the EE.ZIP file from the SAS FTP site:
3. Open Windows Explorer or My Computer, and go to the folder that contains the zip file.
4. Unzip the files into a new empty directory.
5. Go to the new directory and click setup.exe to start the installation.
6. Follow the instructions in the dialog boxes.
7. After the installation completes, verify the version of the coreedit.dll file. If the version is 9.13.0.144, then the installation completed succesfully.

If the version is still 9.135.0.382 or you do not have administrator rights, then you can just copy the Enhanced Editor files to your machine without installing. You must currently have the Enhanced Editor installed in the default location, C:\program files\SAS\shared files\Enhanced Editor. To accomplish this do the following:

1. Make a backup copy of your existing Enhanced Editor folder and sub-folders.
2. Download and unzip http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/pc/EE9130144.zip.
3. Extract the files to the existing Enhanced Editor folder.
4. Verify the version of the coreedit.dll file. If the version is 9.13.0.144, then the process completed successfully.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	N/A	Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Windows Vista	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		z/OS	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Linux on Itanium	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		OpenVMS Alpha	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0
		Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP3	9.2 TS1M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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If you select part of the text with the ALT key and mouse in the SAS Enhanced Editor and choose delete, it might inadvertently delete text you did not intend to delete. If SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.1 is not installed, you can install a previous version of the SAS Enhanced Editor to avoid this problem

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2007-11-29 09:42:48
Date Created:	2007-10-31 15:26:59