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MeLS 2008 Info Page

MeLS System Requirements

 

Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2006 can run on an IBM-compatible 133 MHz or higher Pentium computer with a minimum of 128 MB of available memory. Disk space requirements are approximately 11 MB (assuming you install everything). Intellimouse support requires that you have the Microsoft Intellimouse.

Multi-Edit Lite 2008 for SAS® is developed and designed for Windows 2000, Windows NT & Windows XP, any prior versions of Windows which Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® might be installed on may not operate properly and will not be supported by MESI.

What is MeLS 2008?

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SAS functions Easy
Function cascade allows you to quickly select a SAS function from a list sorted by type. This results in a prototype of the function that shows you all the arguments. Just overtype the parameters with your variables or constants.

Multi-Edit Lite 2008 for SAS® is a collection of edit macros, templates, and other tools that allow Multi-Edit Lite to become a "SAS® IDE". If you have worked mainframes, UNIX and PC boxes, you've seen a lot of editors. Most IDE's have pages of checkboxes to select optional behaviors, but don't allow you to make your own tools that operate within the edit environment. Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 does! Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 has the customization level beyond what you get from the ISPF or Unix shell environment. This includes being able to create your own menus, tool bars, etc. With our tools you can increase your productivity. With a copy of the SAS/PC you can develop, test, and fix at PC speeds, all locally.

Both ISPF Edit and VI have features that many programmers often overlook (mask and line exclusion in ISPF, abbreviations and find-and-print in VI as examples). These features or their functional equivalents are available in Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008. The tools that come with MeLS 2008 create short-learning-curve access to these powers in ways specialized for the SAS® language.

SAS® editors needs to be flexible, conform to you, not the other way around. Although the grouping of the products features may seem artificial, most tools can be accessed in a variety of ways. For instance you can comment block a selected group of text by selecting a menu item, pressing a tool bar button, or typing a template keyword (with persistent blocks on). Please review all of the features to fully appreciate the power and plasticity of our product.


New Features Include:

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Your SAS code is indented as you type
As you type, EZRTools will indent and undent your SAS code. It even adds "end" comments to the termination of control structures.


New Command Maps
Three new Command Maps have been added including: UltraEdit, EMACS & Windows (MS standard).

Import / Export Functionality
New and improved Importing and Exporting functionality for easy sharing of languages, templates, macros and more between coworkers or working environments.

Definable Search Filters
Definable search filters now provide more refined search options.

Multiple Monitor Environment
Multi-Edit Lite for SAS®2008 now supports use of multiple monitor environments and allows for switching back to single display mode without any grief.

Visual Tabs and Spaces
With MeLS 2008 you can easily display Tabs, Spaces & Virtual Spaces.

New Program Bitmaps
24bit color bitmap support has been added to Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 and toolbar buttons have been updated to include 24bit color bitmaps.

Ruby
Complete Ruby language support has been added along with support for XML-style standalone tag termination.

Maximum Editing Windows
Maximum number of editing windows has been increased to 2048.

Tip of the Day
Tip of the Day entries have been updated with new and updated tips to improve your use of Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008.

Revert To Saved
New Revert to Saved file menu option.

XP Style
Support has been added to allow ME dialog controls to use the new XP styles when the Windows XP theme is selected.

Virtual Space
The Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 virtual space character has been changed from the 0xFF to the 0x01 character which now resolves any Russian character issues.

File Lists with Filter Support
New generic file lists with filter support for listing Project files and tag files. Allows navigation file lists without having to use the mouse.

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Additional Features Include:


Editor FEATURES useful to SAS® Programmers
  • 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


With Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008, you get Intelligent Language Support features like:

  • Smart Indenting, code templates, brace/construct matching and auto-commenting, as you type!
  • Language sensitive code highlighting, for any language!
  • Function tagging. " Supports ASP, Ada, Aspect, BASIC, VB, Batch, CSS, PERL, Java, Javascript, FORTRAN, Delphi, and many others. You can also add your OWN LANGUAGE support!
  • Tag highlighting


Extensible support for over fifty languages!

  • MeLS's extensible language support comes installed right out of the box


Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 can be customized for the individual user

  • Keyboard mappings, menus can be imitated and fully customized
  • Change fonts, colors, screen layout and even toolbars, all from one easy interface
  • All dialogs are resizable


Editing Features that increase your programming prowess

  • concurrently edit up to 255 DOS, UNIX, and Binary files of any size with line lengths of up to 16k!
    Now that's power!
  • RegEx support? Just like his bigger brother ME 2008 , Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 features extensive search and replace options with full Regular Expressions support
  • Search in multiple files across directories and drives
  • Incremental search will find text as you type. And once your text is found, it's highlighted throughout the entire file


Programming back and forth between positions in a file?
Use Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008's bookmark feature

  • Mark and return to any position in your file quickly, simply
  • Collapse code that you don't need to view, further speeding up your browsing
  • Collapse tags and functions
    (this feature dependant on the language you are programming in)


File comparing and merging

  • Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 comes with it's own file/compare/merge utility


Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 utilizes multiple clipboards

  • For those of you that have a lot of things going at once, we've got you covered. Try our multiple clipboards. Floating or docked, you decide!


POWER POWER POWER!

  • Automatically align operators on multiple lines with one keystroke
  • Support included for PC, Unix/Linux, and Mac line terminators
  • "On-the-Fly" text template expansion makes every coding effort almost effortless
  • Manipulate large sections of text with extensive block operations
  • Even perform arithmetic on a block of text or fill an entire area with whatever you want!


Need to get down and dirty?

  • Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 allows you to flip into Hex mode and see your files for what they really are


Find yourself doing the same thing, day in and day out, over and over?

  • Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 will bring a smile to your face the first time you record a keystroke macro and watch it playback, at full speed, or recorded speed
  • Automate an unlimited number of tasks with MeL's editable keystroke macros
  • And that isn't all that's unlimited, undo and redo as far back as when you opened the file


Doing some HTML coding?

  • With Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008, launch an URL from within the very file your editing
  • You can even launch another program with 'exec:'
  • or parse URL's like http://www.multieditsoftware.com
    Just right click on a link and away you go!


Syntax highlighting code is great on the screen, but what if you want to print your code?

  • Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® 2008 features color code highlighting that will work with your color printer. Now you can see it on paper!


Special Programmers tools included with Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® are:

  • a Pop-Up ASCII Chart
  • a Movable Text Ruler
  • And a tool for drawing Lines and Boxes


History Auto-Completion

  • When you're filling out text boxes save valuable time by bringing up prior text


Complete 'My Computer' tree from the file/open prompt

  • Drag-n-drop, delete or rename files from the 'My Computer' tree