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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: Enhanced Editor auto correct?
From:       Quentin McMullen <Quentin_McMullen () BROWN ! EDU>
Date:       2004-11-30 18:11:12
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Thanks Much Paul,

You are correct, the problem is only with appearance, the actual code is
stored correctly.  So that eases my mind.  If I had tested a bit, I would
have recognized it as that same old problem of data (code) presentation vs.
data (code) storage.

I do find it annoying, however.  With the default scheme, a bold letter O is
presented as a bold numeric 0.  So it's not really related to the fact that
.O may is a special missing, it's just that by default special missings (as
numeric constants) appear as bold.

Thanks for submitting it to SAS.

--Q.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:06:02 -0800, Choate, Paul@DDS <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV> wrote:

>Hi Quentin -
>
>Try tools >> options >> enhanced editor >> appearance >> scheme, and try one
>of the non-default schemes like retro and your problem goes away.  The
>problem is with the default editor scheme.  Did you want to report this to
>SI?
>
>regards
>
>Paul Choate
>DDS Data Extraction
>(916) 654-2160
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Choate, Paul@DDS
>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:48 PM
>To: 'Quentin McMullen'; SAS List (SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU)
>Subject: RE: Enhanced Editor auto correct?
>
>That's interesting - .O is a special missing value .A-.Z are all supposed to
>work.  I get the same result as you .O turns into .0 in both the enhanced
>and regular editor.
>
>I think it's just a display problem with the code debugger because I use
>notepad I see the zero's and capital O's as they should be.
>
>Have you contacted SI?
>
>Paul Choate
>DDS Data Extraction
>(916) 654-2160
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Quentin
>McMullen
>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:14 PM
>To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Enhanced Editor auto correct?
>
>Hi All,
>Okay, a peer just came to me with the following enhanced editor question,
>and I'm lost.   Seen problem on Windows 8.2 and 9.1.2.
>
>If I open an enhanced editor window and type 2 characters: .O (dot-capital
>O), the enhanced editor shows .0 (dot-zero).  This is a bad thing.
>
>If I type data.OldData I get what I expect.
>
>If I type &data..OldData and look at the window, the letter O is replaced
>with numeric 0, and I see &data..0ldData.
>
>So the enhanced editor is doing some sort of word-like autocorrect?  And
>it's been doing this for years, but I've never had a capital O before?  No
>doubt this has been seen before, and solved?  That is, someone can tell me
>how to turn this off???
>
>Kind Regards,
>--Quentin
>
>--------------------------------
>Quentin McMullen
>Center for Statistical Sciences
>Brown University, Box G-H
>167 Angell Street, 3rd floor
>Providence, RI 02912
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>e-mail: mcmullen@stat.brown.edu
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