Re: Esc-L for LIST?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:

> A book that I was skimming over last evening, Applesoft BASIC for the Apple
> II & IIe by Lois Graff, stated at least twice that I could press Escape,
> then L to get a BASIC listing, but only on the Apple IIe. I had never heard
> of this, so I got up to try it on the computer that I had set up then: the
> Apple IIgs. It did not work.
> 
> Anyone know more about this Escape sequence?

I've never heard of it as a built-in feature of Applesoft on any Apple
II. It sounds like a third party macro add-on of some kind, which the
author may have forgotten she had installed. Possibly something from
Beagle Bros?

The firmware supports Esc to get into cursor movement mode and interact
with the 80-column firmware (e.g Esc Ctrl-Q to terminate the 80-column
firmware and return to the 40-column firmware), but all of those
commands deal with the display and don't issue BASIC commands.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz