I am trying to add the line "build.verbose=true" to my preferences.txt file. I have done this with the Arduino editor NOT running, as recommended, but the file still gets overwritten, i.e. reset to the default, as soon as I boot up the editor. It also gets overwritten when I close the editor. How do I avoid this behavior?
Operating system?
64-bit XP Professional
Solved. The verbose option is working propertly. The problem was that the preferences.txt file gets re-organized automatically, making it appear as if the line that I added vanished. For some unfathomable reason, the line "build.verbose=true", which I typed as the first line in the preferences.txt file, now ends up at line 38. The lines are not sorted alphabetically, so it's rather confusing.
The preferences are read into a hashtable, and then at the end of session the hashtable is dumped in hash-order.