Use External Editor

Introduction

Some guy this Arduino IDE’s editing interface is no so friendly, non-standard indentation, no syntax highlighting, no Autocomplete and so on. In short, if you’ve used other excellent editor such as emacs, vim, even notepad++, you must be very unhappy about Arduino’s editing interface.

But, you can use an external editor, open Arduino IDE, click File -> Preferences, choose Use external editor:

Then you find you can’t type in Arduino IDE, you can only use external editor now.

The following is my favorite editor: Vim, is it more beautiful than Arduino IDE?

Resources

• down pdf file

Help us make it better

Welcome to the new documentation system of Seeed Studio. We have made a lot of progress comparing to the old wiki system and will continue to improve it to make it more user friendly and helpful. The improvement can't be done without your kindly feedback. If you have any suggestions or findings, you are most welcome to submit the amended version as our contributor via Github or give us suggestions in the survey below, it would be more appreciated if you could leave your email so that we can reply to you. Happy Hacking!