Shortcut to comment selected code in SAS Guide

Question

is there some shortcut to just comment the selected code in SAS Enterprise Guide?

There is Ctrl + / to comment the selected line. But would be really useful to comment just a selected part of the code.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can create a Keyboard Macro for this (Program > Editor Macros > Macro...), as shown below. Only limitation is that the selection must be made from left to right / top to bottom. A workaround would be to use instead Cut selection, inserting /*, Paste from clipboard and inserting */. Drawback this time is that you'd lose previous clipboard content.

Then, just assign it a keyboard shortcut, like CTRL-SHIFT-C for instance.

[EDIT]

While we're at it, here's another one to uncomment the blocks enclosed by /* and */:

For this one, I assigned the keyboard shortcut CTRL-SHIFT-D.

Answer 2

Tested and working in SAS EG 7.1.

Program > Editor Macros >MAcros > Record new

You can either follow the sequence in the right side of the snap or create that using the options provided by SAS in left side.