SAS: Save hotkeys

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I use a customized setup within the Enhanced Editor which sets Emacs-like bindings for many tasks. For example, Move cursor down is assigned to C-n, Move cursor left is assigned to C-b, etc.

Unfortunately, whenever I need to reinstall SAS or use a different computer, I have to reassign everything by hand, a non-trivial process. I know it's possible to export keyboard macros as .kmf files. Are the assigned keys stored somewhere that I could back up?

I am using SAS 9.4 on Windows (otherwise I would just use Emacs).

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Your sasuser.profile catalog contains preferences and settings, amongst other things. Copy that to the new sasuser folder and things should be as before.

Find your current SAS session sasuser path with %put %sysfunc(pathname(sasuser));

You can test this by creating a new SAS shortcut with a new -sasuser setting.

For example:

  • create folder c:\temp\sasuser
  • copy existing sasuser profile.sas7bcat file to the new sasuser folder
  • create a new SAS shortcut
    • edit properties and append -sasuser "c:\temp\sasuser" to the target.
  • open the shortcut

All your preferences and settings will be the same as you had in the old session.