[ESS] Fwd: ess sas interactive (remote)

[Vitalie Spinu]

 >> Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo at gmail.com>
 >> on Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:26:29 -0700 wrote:

 > Was wondering, does anyone use ESS to interact with a remote sas session?
 >  if so, what are your workflow?

 > Seems like ESS only supports interactive sas if sas is local on the
 > machine.  Please share your workflow if you are able to access sas
 > remotely.  Thanks!

I am not a SAS user but this is how it works in R and should in
principle work for SAS.

Open some remote file through tramp (could be dired) and then start your
SAS session from there. It should do the right thing, unless
inferior-sas-mode is very special. 

    Vitalie