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HOSTEDIT

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host editor invoked

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The HOSTEDIT command enables you to use XEDIT to edit the contents of a window. This command temporarily suspends activity in the current SAS session and initiates an XEDIT session.

When this session begins, the XEDIT window contains the contents of the window from which it was invoked. You can then use the standard XEDIT commands to edit the text and save it to an external file. Unless the window is available for read access only, you can also save changes back to the window from which the HOSTEDIT command was issued.

To execute the HOSTEDIT command, type HOSTEDIT (or its alias, HED) on the command line. Depending on how the window was defined when it was created, one of the following occurs:

• If the window can be edited, you are placed in an XEDIT session editing the contents of the window.

• If the window is read-only, the XEDIT session starts with a warning on the message line stating this fact. This indicates that any changes you make during the XEDIT session will not be saved to the window when you exit from the editor. However, this does not prevent you from saving the contents of the editor to an external file.

• If the window cannot be edited by the host editor, a message to that effect appears in the window, and no other action occurs.

Special text attributes such as color or highlighting are lost during a host editing session. When the HOSTEDIT command is issued from a window that contains text with these attributes, a requestor window appears. The requestor window gives you the option of either continuing or aborting the HOSTEDIT command.

When you have finished editing in the XEDIT session, do one of the following:

• To save the contents to the window, issue the FILE command.

• To discard the changes you made, issue the QQUIT command.

• To save the contents of the window to an external file, issue the standard XEDIT commands. Then issue the FILE or QQUIT command, depending on whether you also want to save the changes to the window.

In each case you are returned to the window in the SAS session that was suspended.

For more information about XEDIT, refer to the applicable IBM documentation.

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