What I really miss in Arduino Serial Monitor

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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What I really miss in Arduino Serial Monitor is:

  1. Ability to ignore (suppress) ANSI color esc sequences.

  2. Option to send arbitrary bytes, not just printable characters, e.g. Ctrl+C (ascii code 0x03). Like, one extra /textbox/ and button

IDE 2.3.2 very slow compiling
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Serial monitor is intended as a very elementary tool for debugging, not as a full fletched terminal program.

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It’s just a monitor, not a terminal. However, you can connect to it using an appropriate terminal program to achieve the functionality you need.

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Except that those don't automatically disconnect when performing uploads :wink: I often want to bash my head against the wall when I forget to do that.

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I know. It was just wish. Feature request.

I use TeraTerm but it doesn't work for example for ESPCam: terminals I've tried (teraterm, putty) toggle RTS line which causes some boards to go into flashing mode

Also I was not talking about supporting ANSI color escape sequences.

Just ignore them so sketches which use colors could print their colored output in Arduino Serial Monitor without "[33m"-like garbage

Both of these features (ignore ansi colors and ability to send arbitrary bytes) require very small code changes (as I understand it)

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There is a relevant feature request here:

:exclamation: Please only comment on the GitHub issue thread if you have new technical information that will assist with the resolution. General discussion and support requests are always welcome here on the Arduino Forum.

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