[ESS] ESS/iESS SAS problems...

[A.J. Rossini]

SAS within ESS is generally handled batch mode, not really interactive
(i.e. the moral equivalent of eval-buffer, eval-region, not
line-by-line which would be more interactive, in a sense...)

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Blair Christian
<blair.christian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to ESS/SAS, but a longtime ESS/R user.
>
> I'm having some problems getting set up in both interactive and
> non-interactive mode- perhaps I'm doing something wrong or there is
> something undocumented that is common knowledge?
>
> For ESS(SAS) mode (batch processing), I have
> (ess-sas-global-unix-keys) in my .emacs.  When I submit my sas
> program, emacs switches to the *shell* and stays there.  The sas
> program runs, and the output is in the log file, but I'm stuck in
> *shell* and the function key settings don't work there.  I can open
> the log, but it opens as a text file, and I have to M-x sas-log-mode.
> Even then, I still can't switch between the code and the log.
>
> I have ess-sas-submit-command, ess-sas-submit-post-command and
> ess-sas-submit-pre-command variables set to non-defaults for my
> particular version of sas.  I also hand edited
> ess/etc/ess-sas-sh-command (but that should only affect interactive
> ESS(SAS)?).  I'm running emacs 21.3.2 with ess 5.12 on a redhat with
> kernel 2.6.9-89.0.3.ELhugemem.
>
> Thank you much,
> Blair
>
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