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[jcreed]

I got impatient with the arduino IDE because I can't even get it to display line numbers or jump to the line number of an error. Sheesh, what do I even want an IDE for if it can't do that. Pry emacs from my cold dead fingers etc. etc

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[aleffert]

The IDE is really terrible. Fortunately, it has a use external editor button in the preferences. Then you can just it as a giant run button.

[jcreed]

but can I bind M-x compile to that run button? Huh? can I?

[aleffert]

On a mac you could hook it up to the GUI scripting layer. No idea what your options are.

[jcreed]

I think my favored option remains the "not GUI scripting layer" that I definitely have available to me, which doesn't require running a behemoth java program just to get a run button.

[jcreed]

Naturally; I just already had screen in my bash history with a different baud rate at the time

[jcreed]

I'm frankly alarmed how much this all makes perfect sense. I actually was at the point of concluding it had to be at the usb-to-serial layer that the magic was happening, but you've saved me a bunch of guesswork with your precise explanation, and saved me time hunting around in the firmware. Anyway thanks a ton. :) this low level hardware stuff is pretty fun after all, the occasional double-blech nonwithstanding