At the same time it has hidden depths which can be quite handy. It lets me do what I need to do without giving me a dangerous amount of rope. I just want to write a little Arduino code! Of course, if I knew what I was doing in there then I’d be able to fix it, but I don’t have that kind of time and I don’t want that kind of power. In fact, I recently hit an accidental keystroke in VS and the entire thing stopped working. Speaking for myself, however, Visual Studio makes me feel like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice with too many options, settings, and terms that I don’t quite understand, and an incredibly complex interface as reins to ultimate unwanted and undeserved power. Similarly, for hardcore hackers who have millions of lines of code under their belts, Visual Studio might be the best Arduino development environment you could want. For others though, those long commands are just opportunities for typos and inexplicable DOS error messages. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just take my word for it: Notepad++ is extremely convenient and easy to use as a code editor.Ĭompiling and uploading Arduino sketches from the command line is great for those of us who are really old school and feel at home typing incredibly long text-based commands. This is really nice when using cross-platform source files such as Arduino sketches. Perhaps my favorite feature is that it doesn’t care what kind of line endings you use, CR/LF or just LF – it just does the right thing. It has features such as code completion, line numbers, support for different character encodings, and many others, yet it remains extremely compact and easy to use.
It’s free, open source, simple to install, and largely accessible with whatever screen reader you happen to prefer. It is used by many developers who don’t want the overhead of a giant IDE just to edit a bit of code. Notepad++ (hereafter Npp) is my text editor of choice for almost any simple editing work including coding Arduino. The current post offers the most convenient Arduino development tool chain I have yet found –editing, compiling, and uploading sketches directly from Notepad++. In another post, Chancey Fleet provided excellent step-by-step instructions for installing and using Visual Micro to compile and upload Arduino sketches directly from Visual Studio. For example, in an earlier post I describe (perhaps in more detail than strictly necessary) how to set up and configure the Arduino IDE from the Windows command line. Arduino software development is no exception, and many of the posts in this blog have been devoted to working around the sketchy (sic) accessibility of the Arduino IDE itself. Blind people living in the real world are constantly working out hacks and alternatives to “normal” work flows that are inaccessible in whole or in part.
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