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Not sure if this has been posted as an actual request/suggest before but please can we have VT100 support in the Serial Monitor?

I generally run a separate terminal package but that means I have to remember to close the port before I can upload from the Arduino IDE. Then re-open it. Sounds simple but my god it's a pain after a while.

All I really need to be able to do is clear the screen or move the cursor to the beginning of a line so that continuously updating results can be put on one line instead of continual new lines causing the window to scroll crazily.

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I heartily agree with this. it'd be nice to be able to have the "user interface" on the serial side have the option to look nice.

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I'd rather see the IDE support an external program for "Serial Monitor"; there are a bazillion terminal emulator tools and it's not really worth making another one...

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+1 on allowing an external terminal program for Serial Monitor.  Before the IDE allowed sending CR / LF on line endings I always had to use a third-party terminal app.  Adding the line ending options has helped a lot for quick testing but in general I have to use a more full-featured terminal for what I do.

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All I really need to be able to do is clear the screen or move the cursor to the beginning of a line so that continuously updating results can be put on one line instead of continual new lines causing the window to scroll crazily.

I've missed this ever since I started using the Arduino IDE. A small effort here (even just proper CR/LF handling) would help a lot.

Integration with an external serial monitor may be the way to go, but tight integration is better than even a large feature set. That is I would not like to loose automatic close on build.

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Java does not seem to make this very easy.  Most of the provided text window classes seem to render from 1-d arrays of text, rather than 2-d arrays of characters.  That gives you some useful features (like scrollback and easy cut&paste), but makes the whole "display terminal emulation" ... interesting.