IDE suggestions

Community Suggestions for the Arduino Project
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A couple of suggestions re the IDE.

  1. since I use the IDE for several processors, I'm starting to add a # line at the top of each .ino with the processor. #ESP8266 or #STM32, or #ATMega328 for example. This could automatically set the environment. You could also have the actual board type.

  2. printing has always been an annoyance. The IDE does colour highlighting of keywords, but printed pages are black and white, and lack any font or formatting options. Also a header/footer with filename and date/time would be useful. I'm guessing this may flow from Processing, so should I suggest the changes there?

Dave