Upgrade the Serial Monitor for better function

[Shull327]

Maybe I'm just uneducated in how to do certain things within the Serial Monitor.

• Search for keywords / text / etc.
• Copy & Paste contents.
• Perhaps even download the contents.

Why are these functions missing from the latest greatest IDE release. This would allow much more efficient debugging for many of us.

I'm aware there are secondary programs to provide these options, but it would be great to have this all in one place.

[J-M-L]

The Serial monitor is one of the weakest point of the new IDE...

you can select the text and then just do ctrl-C / cmd-C to copy the content of the Serial monitor

Just be careful as the selection goes outside the Serial monitor itself and selects irrelevant content from the rest of the screen (at least on my Mac) like the line numbers in the sketch or the baud rate, and line ending...

So if you want better - indeed go for an external tool

[mrburnette]

On PC's with touchscreens/pens you have enhanced support for selection beyond Ctrl+A / Ctrl+C

Pressed: 6  ASCII: 54
Pressed: 6  ASCII: 54
Pressed: 6  ASCII: 54
Pressed: 6  ASCII: 54
Pressed: #  ASCII: 35

[J-M-L]

@mrburnette

On PC's with touchscreens/pens you have enhanced support for selection beyond Ctrl+A / Ctrl+C

on the Mac you can select what you want with the mouse - I assumed it was the same on the PC too

[mrburnette]

@J-M-L

Mac you can select what you want with the mouse

Honestly, my dev box is Linux. This Microsoft Surface Pro is a "consumption" machine and the touchscreen is a tablet feature. Arduino is installed, but only used for testing forum snippets and getting jpeg clips of documentation and Win-11 stuff. Microsoft is the worst for moving property boxes around so when I tell someone to "this & that", I have to check and verify... otherwise newbies love to call-out the old-timer on nitpicking stuff

[ptillisch]

Hi @Shull327. Thanks for taking the time to give the Arduino IDE 2.0.0 release candidate a try and for sharing your feedback!

@Shull327

Search for keywords / text / etc.

There is a proposal from one of the primary developers of Arduino IDE 2.x which includes this capability here:

Replace the serial monitor view with a monaco editor

@Shull327

Copy & Paste contents.

There is a related item here:

Missing "Select All" capability for Serial Monitor

@Shull327

Perhaps even download the contents.

This request is being tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

Add a save output to file option to serial monitor

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