Text editor with SPSS syntax highlighting

[Aldo Cimino]

The title says it all. Is there a text editor that will provide colored
highlighting for SPSS commands, comments, etc.?

[Bruce Weaver]

Aldo Cimino wrote:
> The title says it all. Is there a text editor that will provide colored
> highlighting for SPSS commands, comments, etc.?

The FAQ page on Raynald's website has a file on using TextPad as a
syntax editor. Apparently it supports the highlighting you want.

http://www.spsstools.net/FAQ.htm

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Bruce Weaver
bwe...@lakeheadu.ca
www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir

[jus...@zeusedit.com]

As a a language neutral IDE, Zeus can be configured
for almost any programming language. It has features
like class browsing, syntax highlighting, smart indent,
code folding, project management, version control etc.

> Is there a text editor that will provide colored
> highlighting for SPSS commands, comments, etc.?

The link below describes how to add a new language
definition:

http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=236

Basically you will need a list of keywords, which can
then be imported into the Zeus document type.

Jussi Jumppanen
Author: Zeus for Windows
Note: Zeus is shareware (45 day trial).

[Aldo Cimino]

Thanks Bruce and Jussi.

Do either of you know of a Mac text editor with SPSS syntax highlighting? I
use Windows as well, but it would be ideal to have a Mac version. I've
looked at the major Mac text editors (BBEdit and TextMate) and neither
appear to have SPSS support. Ah well.

[Aldo Cimino]

After fruitless searching, I decided to make an SPSS syntax language file
for BBEdit. After installing this language file, any BBEdit document with a
".sps" extension will have automatic syntax coloring.

Download the file here: http://www.aldocimino.com/spss_syntax.zip

To install the file, unzip it, and place it in the following folder:

~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Modules/

If the folder "Language Modules" does not exist, you will need to create it.

A few things about syntax coloring:

1) It will only highlight SPSS syntax if it is capitalized.
2) Many abbreviations of syntax commands that SPSS supports are not in the
language file. Feel free to add your own.

-Aldo

On 3/16/06 7:15 PM, in article C03F69DA.ECB8%aldo_...@umail.ucsb.edu,

[Vincent Dusanek]

For those wondering, SPSS is based on JAVA. So instead of creating a new file and doing all the other work, you could just select JAVA for syntax-highlighting. Does the job pretty well, if you wanna work with the SPSS Syntax.