Multi-Edit Lite for SAS 2008 is an application which answers the need for a modern editor that is dedicated to the needs and environment of todays SAS programmer.

Multi-Edit Lite 2006 becomes a SAS IDE by encompassing a collection of edit macros, templates and other features dedicated to SAS. Customizable and extendable this editor also allows the creation of your own tools. Customization is provided beyond the level you get from the ISPF or Unix shell environment.

Create and edit menus, tool bars, and other functionalities. Programmers utilizing SAS/PC can develop, test, and fix at PC speeds without leaving the editor. Conversely, you retain the ability to use the powerful editing features and upload/download your work to the host. The SAS ODS demands you work with HTML. Multi-Edit Lite for SAS 2008 provides support for over 50 languages, including HTML and RUBY. JAVA is supported for the developer who left SAS/AF for Java.

Edit Java Script, Perl or PHP scripts with an editor that understands. Stop leap-froggin between IDEs. Multi-Edit Lite for SAS 2006, is the IDE for all your tasks. Feature rich, this IDE has a level of complexity that gives this editor the ability to grow with you. Its common to overlook functions that can help reduce your project time, i.e., mask and line exclusion (as used in ISPF), abbreviations and find-and-print (as used in VI). Access these features easily and increase your productivity.

The tools included with Multi-Edit Lite for SAS 2006, provide simple access to these features that have been specifically designed for the SAS language. Basics include SAS highlighting, indention, and fast commenting. Expand keystrokes into SAS language constructs. Complete SAS integration and debugging tools are immediately available and smart code creates SAS Proc and Data steps using dialog.

Here are some key features of "Multi-Edit Lite for SAS 2008":

· Editor features including syntax highlighting, indention, and fast commenting
· Programmers can expand a few keystrokes into SAS language constructs and more
· SAS integration and debugging tools
· Smart code creates SAS steps using dialogs
· Hide lines of code from view
· Automatic Indention and Un-indention of source as you type
· Color coding of SAS source and logs
· Templates for SAS PROCs and DATA steps, functions and code elements
· Smart Templates allow you to select checkboxes to include options and statements for the complex PROCs
· Run SAS programs from within the editor and view the source, log and output while still editing
· Move Error messages to immediately after the line that generated the error even if there are multiple occurrences of the errors
· Templates for SAS PROCs and DATA steps, functions and code elements
· Collapse repeated messages into one line and remove extraneous blank lines
· Subset your view of the log to show only: Warnings, Notes, Errors, Debug statements, code, observations or other items of interest
· Hop to source line from the corresponding line in the log
· Automatic Indention and Un-indention of source as you type
· Select a block of code and comment it out without interference from encapsulated comments. Select it again and un-comment it with one click
· Automatic "end" statement commenting to match them to the corresponding control structure
· Type text then click to wrap in 1 to 3 asterisks to make automatically aligned block comments
· Easy to use template for prolog comment block including Company name and copyright, author name, date, and more
· Easy insertion and removal of debug statements
· Generate base layout for any SAS function call through a cascading menu system
· Highlight a string and click a button to search forward, backward or globally for the string

Requirements:

· 30 MB of available drive space;
· 256 MB RAM recommended 128 MB minimal.

Limitations:

· 30 days evaluation

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Newly revised keystroke macro recording support and numerous other updates.
· Final build for Multi-Edit 2008