vim-sas

Use VIM as SAS IDE on MS/Windows

Why vim-sas

Why vim-sas, instead of native SAS IDE?

Because we can.

Why vim-sas, instead of Emacs/ESS?

Please do not make it a war. I love ESS but just fail to get it work on Windows.

*No, I can not afford a copy of SAS on NIX

Yes, I still vote for ESS-R.

Why vim-sas, instead of EricGebhart/SAS-Vim?

EricGebhart/SAS-Vim is a great inspiration and syntax/indent files are borrowed from it.

But EricGebhart/SAS-Vim itself is a little bit ad-hoc, not very VIM-ish and missing features like quickfix.

How to use vim-sas

• Prerequisites: Python3
• Get the codes, e.g. using pathogen.vim.

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/exaatto/vim-sas.git

• Install utility scripts into %PATH%.

mklink "C:\Windows\saswrapper.py" "%CD%\bin\saswrapper.py"
mklink "C:\Windows\saslogfilt.py" "%CD%\bin\saslogfilt.py"

• Configure path to sas.exe in .vimrc.

let g:SASExe="\"C:\\Program Files\\SASHome\\SASFoundation\\9.3\\sas.exe\""

• My own additional configurations.

let g:SASOptions="-CONFIG \"C:\\Program Files\\SASHome\\SASFoundation\\9.3\\nls\\en\\sasv9.cfg\" -nosource -nosource2 -nocpuid -noechoauto -nomprint -noovp -noprintmsglist -nosymbolgen -nonotes -nocenter"
augroup filetype
autocmd BufRead *.sas map <F10> :make<CR>
autocmd BufRead *.sas map lst :call SASLstToggle()<CR>
autocmd BufRead *.sas map log :call SASLogToggle()<CR>
augroup END

BUGS

• There is always a SAS dialog window flashing by so fast that I have no idea.
• Window spliting/resize is still a bit messy.
• I have no plan to parse warning/note messages in SAS log file.