Interest in overhauling the IDE user interface?

Development Suggestions for the Arduino Project
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Graynomad:
Re the help. Can you have a hot key (F2?) to bring up the help for a function? Either based on where the mouse/cursor is or maybe you have to highlight the function.

Word boundaries. Currently the IDE uses inappropriate characters as word boundaries, for example

int in_Byte = Serial1.read();

If I double click on in_Byte because I want to copy it I only get "in" or "Byte", depending on where I click. In a programming language this should be considered a single word.

So either allow the setup of word boundary chars or just exclude some common ones like _.

This also applies to ^arrowing, if I ^ left arrow I want the cursor to skip the entire in_Byte, currently it's 3 key strokes to get over the var name.

Rob

Current ide select whole var when I double click vars with "aaa_aaa" :open_mouth: and CTRL+Shift+F opens the reference