![]() ![]() You have wonderfully created this article and it has amazing substance and is carefully formed and even I am revived by your composed style as well. Thank you so much for sharing this information. The “real” users of SPSS (and by that, I mean anyone who uses SPSS outside of a stats 101 class) all wind up in the syntax window. SPSS should be our IDE, not some external editor. That being said, none of this should be an issue when dealing with syntax. The editors recommended on the mailing lists are all fine shareware choices… but I think the open source editors are much more powerful. A simple macro would let me fix this in seconds (and its easy in Jedit… but why do I have to use an external editor for this?). I wind up having to copy a SQL statement, paste it, then waste 10 minutes putting quotes around each line and dealing with any quotes inline. Yes, one can now change the fonts across SPSS… so why ship with an arial-type default? Switch to a clean courier so at least columns can line up properly.Īnd how about editor macros? For example, I re-use the GET DATA commands to access our main datawarehouse. ![]() Now, I use Jedit (and if only Jext were to merge their gui with Jedit’s power…) and I’ve been gradually making a syntax file which I will provide here somepoint soon… but after 12 (soon to be 13) versions, couldn’t SPSS just provide syntax highlighting in their “editor” component? If nothing else, bold the period or flag with an “arrow” when a period appears to be missing. Why? Because SPSS gives a glorified notepad using a proportional font as their primary development environment to their users. Everyone asks for a quality external editor to edit their scripts. This keeps coming up on the mailing lists. Why no color syntax highlighting in SPSS Syntax? ![]()
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