Wouldn't it be nice if Arduino IDE ....

[lmihalkovic]

Aside from the bang-on-feature-set and quality of the board, IMHO the utterly simple approach of the supplied IDE is what made the Arduino a hit... instead of the dark-art that embedded programming has been for years, it suddenly became possible for anyone to download a single zip and reliably get going in minutes. This is a awesome achievement!!!

As time has passed, the IDE as retained the simplicity that made its success. Of recent, the company behind the development of this tool as undertaken the challenge of re-inventing this product and for the past year work seems to have gone steadily on Arduino Create. Understandably, the development of this product has entered a new phase, and many features that might have otherwise made their way to this IDE have been closed as Arduino Create will provide this feature.

IMHO the platform is coming to a cross-roads. The skill-set of programmers keep growing, more rapidly than before I might add, and the current IDE is approaching (some might say it passed it) a point where its minimum feature-set will not longer be enough.

This issue entry is for the purpose of referencing under a single umbrella other individual issues meant to inject a number of capabilities that will give a dose of coolness factor to the current IDE (1.6.5_r5 at the time this is started).

• fresh new Arduino Create look #4151 #4158 #4196
• support for layout / description in sketch #4197 arduino/Arduino#4198 (markdown) arduino/Arduino#4399 (asciidoc)
• code completion arduino/Arduino#4089 see Quick Guide
• sketch navigation/outline view #4083 (touching arduino/Arduino#4050 arduino/Arduino#3601 arduino/Arduino#314)
• key bindings #4086 (needs #4146)
• support for ASM source files with syntax coloring and completion for AVR #274
• support for ASM source files with syntax coloring and completion for ARM
• sketch debugger arduino/Arduino#4010
• quick access #4077
• better search arduino/Arduino#4488
• support single file sketch (.inz) #4206
• user defined scripts for file validation, data visualization, ... (relating to arduino/Arduino#4074)
• code templates
• wizards (sketch, library)
• dedicated class-room support features
• library reference from code #4069 (#2692)
• clean handling of compiler (#3383 arduino/Arduino#3748 #3771 #4216 #2680 #2711 arduino/Arduino#3400)

More practical

• library editing arduino/Arduino#4085 (relating to arduino/Arduino#4064 arduino/Arduino#4065 arduino/Arduino#3512)
• splitting monolithic sketch into local libraries arduino/Arduino#4050 (relating to arduino/Arduino#4064 arduino/Arduino#4065)
• better multi-tab handling (relating to arduino/Arduino#3061 arduino/Arduino#4050 arduino/Arduino#195 #4350)
• storing board info in sketch arduino/Arduino#3228
• saving code folding #3441
• handle non ascii sketches arduino/Arduino#4259
• support the use of Make/Makefile arduino/Arduino#2400
• install extras from download and local files (#2981 arduino/Arduino#2874 arduino/Arduino#2881)
• multi encoding support in monitor arduino/arduino-ide#1728

Nice to haves

• link to donation via paypal to support the development arduino/Arduino#4147
• to would make sense to isolate the platforms from the executable and improve platform deployment arduino/Arduino#4132
• support dropping pre-compiled lib in a sketch (#199)
• address the rogue notification popup arduino/Arduino#3809

This is a backlog of, some of them long standing, issues that I will address in some way shape or form (the final solution may represent a comprise between ease of implementation and matching the original request):

• #3827 arduino/Arduino#1986 #234 (#3557) arduino/Arduino#4218 arduino/Arduino#1696 arduino/Arduino#2009 arduino/Arduino#4254

External references: https://groups.google.com/a/arduino.cc/d/topic/developers/KsstENd2384/discussion

These improvements were originally tracked on the IDE main repo as arduino/Arduino#4084, which created too much interference for the core team to be able to pursue their work.

[lmihalkovic]

NTS

• IDE arduino/Arduino#4107 arduino/Arduino#936 arduino/Arduino#849 arduino/Arduino#1004 arduino/Arduino#3435 arduino/Arduino#3448 arduino/Arduino#4389 arduino/arduino-ide#1880 arduino/Arduino#3139(video) https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/2177: Improve visuals arduino/Arduino#647 arduino/Arduino#1552 arduino/Arduino#3056
• arduino-builder 15
• toolchain arduino/Arduino#660 arduino/Arduino#421 arduino/Arduino#1841 verify
• boards arduino/Arduino#3297
• PR https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/3019

[mralexgray]

+1 Maybe a SIMBL plugin-in (like afloat) could step in, in the meantime (or if this is a wont fix)

[zsubzwary]

It's been three years, when should we expect the auto-Complete feature in Arduino IDE (stable build) ...? What progress is made on the auto-Complete feature ........?