Serial Monitor, non-printable characters

Projects Programming
1

The goal is to use the serial monitor to indicate repeating activity without scrolling or using excessive space in the monitor window.
Tried this:

  char backspace = 8;
  Serial.print( "bb" );
  Serial.print( backspace );  Serial.print( backspace );
  delay( 3000 );

It printed “bb” followed by two small squares.
If there a way to get the serial monitor to backspace and/or delete some already printed characters?

2

The IDE Serial Monitor doesn't support these characters.

If you want to control the cursor for a formatted output consider using a terminal program that supports ANSI escape sequences and formatting your text output accordingly.

I'm pretty sure PuTTY supports ANSI/VT100 codes.

3

Is there a way to integrate PuTTY into the Arduino IDE to use during development?

4

Just run PuTTY and set it for your com port.

5

No.