Apple IIe - 6502 Assembly Programming - A Full Screen Editor!

Apple IIe
6502 Assembly Programming - A Full Screen Editor!

Merlin-8 2.48 has a full screen editor that is a little bit easier to use than the single line editor. If you read my prior post where I created the program BEEP which calls the built in beep routine, you'll appreciate switching to the full screen editor. 

The manual for Merlin-8 and 16 (for the IIgs) can be found here http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/fichiers/merlin816.pdf. 

Chris has an excellent video describing how to use the full screen editor here Assembly Lines #5: Merlin 8 Full Screen Editor.

Everything else is pretty much the same. I am using the DOS 3.3 version of the program. If you prefer ProDOS, there is a later version for that.

Here are the Full Screen Editor commands you won't find in the single line editor. If you are using AppleWin, the Open Apple key is the ALT key:

 

Open Apple+B	Go to beginning of the source
Open Apple+N	Go to the end of the source
Open Apple+D	Delete the current line
Open Apple+R	Replace the current line
Open Apple+E	Exchange (find and replace)
Open Apple+F	Find text
Open Apple+I	Insert a blank line
Open Apple+L	Locate label, marker, or line number
Open Apple+Q	Return to Editor Control Mode
Open Apple+X	Clipboard cut
Open Apple+V	Clipboard paste
Open Apple+Y	Select all text to the end
Open Apple+8	Create a line of asterisks
Open Apple+9	Create a box of asterisks