POKE combo

[newTIboyRob]

 

I remember in 80's basic on my IBM that there was a way to assign a single key to be used as a shortcut for printing out any desired word.  I have an Applesoft basic program I am doing that is going to have a ton of DATA statements, so this would be a handy little thing. (The only way I know how is to do A$="DATA" then ? A$; but that wouldn't really be of much use here.)

 

With all the peeks and pokes, is there a combo of those to put in a line early on in the program so I can just press a combo of the <CNTRL> key and another key so that word "DATA" appears

when I have to type all those DATA statements?

 

 

[The Usotsuki]

It's probably doable but it would require a lot of work.  Look at something like GPLE, though - I think that does pretty similar to what you want.

[newTIboyRob]

GPLE?

[+Torrax]

Global Program Line Editor by Beagle Brothers

[newTIboyRob]

Gotcha, thanks.

[salfter]

On 8/13/2023 at 5:47 PM, newTIboyRob said:

 

I remember in 80's basic on my IBM that there was a way to assign a single key to be used as a shortcut for printing out any desired word.  I have an Applesoft basic program I am doing that is going to have a ton of DATA statements, so this would be a handy little thing. (The only way I know how is to do A$="DATA" then ? A$; but that wouldn't really be of much use here.)

 

With all the peeks and pokes, is there a combo of those to put in a line early on in the program so I can just press a combo of the <CNTRL> key and another key so that word "DATA" appears

when I have to type all those DATA statements?

 

 

Not that I'm aware of.  If you need to do some sort of repetitive entry like that, you could use a text editor (whether on the Apple II or something else) and EXEC the resulting text file in.  If the chunk of data you want to turn in to DATA statements is already in RAM, a short one- or two-line BASIC program could turn that chunk into a text file that, again, you could EXEC into your target program.