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Reply to "Is anybody using the Arduino 2.0 IDE?"

@BillYo414 posted:

The left picture looks more helpful because of the vertical lines to be honest @G3750. I can appreciate the way it helps organize things in bigger programs. We'll see when we get there though!

Those vertical lines (I think you meant in the image on the right) help trace the open & closed parentheses and thus keep branches of conditional "clauses" straight.  Of all the languages I've used, C is the most challenging (at least to me) in that particular aspect.  So I very much appreciate that feature and by itself probably makes my choice of IDE for me.  Because the Arduino IDE really doesn't have what's called a "pretty-printer" (a utility or feature that produces well-behaved printer listings), the alternative is to cut and paste the code into another document (Word or Notepad or the equivalent), format it to fit on a page, print it, and then use a ruler to match up the parentheses.  Ugh - it's 1975 again!     Might as well go back to punch cards...  

George

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