| SAS Companion for UNIX Environments |
When you select text in a
SAS window, you
can select character strings or blocks. Character strings include the text
in successive columns of one or more rows, as shown in Strings That Are Marked. Blocks are rectangular blocks
that include the same columns from successive rows, as shown in Blocks That Are Marked.
Strings That Are Marked
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Blocks That Are Marked
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You can select text in three different
ways:
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Position
the cursor at the beginning of the text that you want to mark and press and
hold the left mouse button. Drag the mouse pointer over the text that you
want to mark, and press and hold down the Alt key (or Extend char key or Meta
key, depending on your keyboard) while you release the mouse button. The marks
that are generated by the mouse are called drag marks.
If you want to select a block instead of a string, press and hold the CTRL
key before you press the left mouse button. To extend an area of marked text,
press and hold the Shift key, and use the left mouse button and the Alt key
(and the CTRL key, if you are marking a block) to mark the new ending position.
To unmark the selected text, press the mouse button anywhere in the window.
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Use the MARK command
as described in the online help. Position
the cursor at the beginning of the text that you want to mark and issue the
MARK command. Then, move the cursor to the end of the text that you want to
mark, and issue the MARK command a second time. You can issue the MARK command
from the command line, or you can assign it to a function key. If you want
to select a block instead of a string, add the BLOCK argument to the MARK
command. With the MARK command, you can select more than one area of text
in the same window at the same time. To unmark the selected text, issue the
UNMARK command.
- Position the cursor at the beginning of the text
that you want to mark and select
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Select |
Position the cursor to the end of the text that
you want to mark and press the left mouse button. To unmark the selected text,
select
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Deselect |
Note: The text that you select might
not remain highlighted although it has been copied into the paste buffer. ![[cautionend]](../common/images/cautend.gif)
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