How to turn off new 2.x editor "features"

[justdaveiii]

I don't care for the vertical grey lines between my code. Nor the popup window when I mouse over things. What else is going to annoy me in this new 2.x editor vs 1.x?

The above gets in my way and is distracting.

What / were to disable and have it act like 1.x?

[sterretje]

@justdaveiii

BTW, when selecting the Board, I'd like to see ALL catagories, not liking to have to type / search. At first I thought I would have to re-install all the boards I use as only a few showed up. The little 4 item list of boards is not good. It doesn't show catagories nor all the boards. Especially needed due to the number of clone boards.

It sounds like you're using the below. If so, just use tools/boards.

I can't answer the other questions.

[sterretje]

@justdaveiii

Nor the popup window when I mouse over things.

I think I found that one. You can disable the language server; as far as I know it does not have negative side effects.

For Windows,

1. Press <ctrl><shift>P
2. Type language server
3. Click Stop Language Server

PS
The option does not seem to be persistent.

[sterretje]

@sterretje

PS
The option does not seem to be persistent.

There seems to be a better way. See IDE 2.0.4 how to disable autocompletes and hover suggestions - #7 by ptillisch. Not tested.

[justdaveiii]

Thanks for the replies.

I found another Q/A that showed a 3 key combo (CTRL-Shift-P) to open the "Command Palette"

Then I select the "Preferences: Open Settings (UI) " command from the menu

A "Preferences" tab will now open in the Arduino IDE.

Now I can change the Settings for many things. In there I have disabled 99% of them to get back a "dumb" editor.

Hate to say it, but that's a lot of work just to revert back. IMHO there should be a menu item to bring up the list of common settings and an "Advanced" menu item there to display all the others.

[justdaveiii]

"You can disable the language server; as far as I know it does not have negative side effects."

Yes, that works but not persistant.

I see no advantage to 2.x. Too much time wasted getting it to actually run (Teensy board thing) and now with the editor. It's gone. I'll check back in 6 months to see if there is any improvment.

[justdaveiii]

" There seems to be a better way. See IDE 2.0.4 how to disable autocompletes and hover suggestions - #7 by ptillisch. Not tested."

Tested. Does not work.

[dougp]

Maybe this is what you're looking for:

Vertical bars problem

IDE version 2.0.2 I cannot make the vertical bars go away.  With settings made per this thread: and looking like this: [image] the problem remains.  I also shut down the IDE and restarted, no change, bars still there.  Here's a sample: [image] What am I doing wrong?

[justdaveiii]

Yes.
But when so many people ask about the same things that I have, the developers ought to take note and make it simple to change. That's what I do when I get feedback from my users.

[sterretje]

@justdaveiii

Tested. Does not work.

Disabling the hover through Preferences: Open Settings (UI) does work on my Win11 system (IDE 2.3.4).

[sterretje]

@justdaveiii

That's what I do when I get feedback from my users.

Developers do not hang around on the forum. The official channel to report issues and suggest improvements is https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues.

[nixie]

What's wrong with the "Teensy board thing"? I've just installed 2.x and verified that I can run Blink on every board type I intend to use. Teensy 4.1 was painless.

[justdaveiii]

There seems to be a problem where the Teesy board files that are installed in v1.x (or maybe from an earlyer 2.x???) can prevent startup of a newly installed 2.x.

[justdaveiii]

@sterretje

Developers do not hang around on the forum. The official channel to report issues and suggest improvements is GitHub · Where software is built.

I didn't say devolopers. Of course they don't look here. But as this is an official forum of Arduino (not some third party thing) I would expect the company to monitor.

For every person that encounters a problem and reports it there are many more that don't. And then having to find the correct place to report it is another level. How many people even know where in github to do this?

[nixie]

@justdaveiii

There seems to be a problem where the Teesy board files that are installed in v1.x (or maybe from an earlyer 2.x???) can prevent startup of a newly installed 2.x.

Ok, thanks. I got two new laptops (Black Friday) and v1.x was not present on either machine.

[ptillisch]

Hi @justdaveiii.

@justdaveiii

maybe from an earlyer 2.x???

I think this is it. The reason is that the affected users have reported that it is fixed by deleting the teensy package from the Arduino global data folder ("Arduino15"):

https://forum.arduino.cc/search?q=%22discovery%20teensy%3Ateensy-discovery%20not%20found%22%20order%3Alatest

Only Arduino IDE 2.x installs the package to that location. The reason is that Boards Manager installs packages to that location and support for installing the Teensy platform via Boards Manager was only added in Arduino IDE 2.x:

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_download.html

there is a completely different different system for installing Teensy support for Arduino IDE 1.x, which stores the package in a subfolder of the Arduino IDE 1.x installation folder instead of in the "Arduino15" folder.

@justdaveiii

as this is an official forum of Arduino (not some third party thing) I would expect the company to monitor.

The company does make some efforts to monitor the forum. I monitor this forum category, and several others that are relevant to the work I do. Likewise, there is some monitoring by other Arduino employees in other categories (for example, you might get a response from a member of the Arduino Cloud team if you post in the IoT Cloud or Web Editor categories).

The forum is extremely active so unfortunately it is not feasible for me to respond to every post while still completing the other important technical for which I am responsible, but I do my best.