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Need to expand the list of obsolete and depreciated commands highlighted as errors in syntax. Obsolete commands are those that are no longer included in Datamine and will cause macros to fail in the latest version. Depreciated commands are still present but have been replaced by better options. Use of depreciated command should be highlighted so that developers can start removing them from their work. Perhaps depreciated commands could also include commands not officially depreciated?

Obsolete: ANYJOI, TRIANR, VARDIR, VARHOL, DIGIT
Depreciated: GENTRA, AED, SORTX

Current snippets are of single commands (with the exception of the loop snippet), some with multiple formats depending on use case. It would be useful to add more complex snippets of macro code for common tasks. These should be kept to fairly simple and generic applications that many users will find useful.

• loop though file by record
• loop given maximum iterations
• initialize audit file; write audit file
• create date/time strings
• end macro cleanup
• ...

that's probably minor thing - but I always trying to use forbidden commands inside EXTRA - like !let etc
it'd be nice to check if there are lines starting with "!" between EXTRA and GO and highlight it as an error

Menu option for README currently opens README.md in Sublime Text. Would be more useful to link to GitHub for richer display of README with figures and formatting.

A code line exceeding 80 characters is invalid in Datamine macros. If a code line less than 80 characters has an appended comment that makes the line exceed 80 characters, the code is still valid. Currently the syntax definition will flag this line as invalid.

Tried fixing this with a negative lookbehind for the "line to long validation" but it didn't work; although, the syntax is valid. Problem is that lookbehind can't use wildcards.

(?<!\s#).{81,}

Add more content to README, specifically, screen capture GIFs demonstrating:

• syntax highlighting features
• commenting command Ctrl+/
• snippet insertion and fields

New functions in EXTRA not highlighted
maxia(n1,n2,n3...) - returns maximum while ignoring absent values
minia(n1,n2,n3...) - return minimum while ignoring absent values