#1991: add support for 'clear screen' and 'move to home'

[wodzuu]

Motivation

Implement feature requested in Issue #1991

Change description

A complete rewrite of messagesToLines from monitor-utils.ts

Other information

Docs have not been updated as there are no docs related to the Serial Monitor

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[kittaakos]

Hi @wodzuu, thanks for the contribution. What IDE2 needs, in the long run, is a pseudoterminal: #1473 (comment).

[wodzuu]

Hi @kittaakos. Yes, that would be perfect. However this seems to be a much bigger task than just adding support for those two escape sequences. And I think they already make a significant difference (for me at least :P )

[Shumatic]

Hi @kittaakos.
As there a lot of whises for Serial, wouldn't it be easier to use an external monitor as YAT, it provide mutch of the fuctionallity that users ask for.
For OTA devices it is easy, as they can upload with Serial connected.
For other bords we need a way to disable the external Serial monitor while uploading. Just a thought.....

[kittaakos]

wouldn't it be easier to use an external monitor as YAT,

For OTA devices it is easy, as they can upload with Serial connected.
For other bords we need a way to disable the external Serial monitor while uploading. Just a thought.....

No, I do not think so.

IDE2 never talks with the board directly on serial or other ways. The Arduino CLI knows how to talk to the board and acts as a middleman between the device and the IDE. It wouldn't be easier to integrate an external tool with IDE2, especially since YAT is for Windows only, as I see, and we want to make the features available to all users.

Furthermore, it seems to be possible without any external tools (#1473 (comment)):

use a Pseudoterminal from VS Code.

monitor_running_in_terminal.mp4

I have another ongoing implementation, which uses the monaco editor. See #105.

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