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Arduino IDE

Lately I have been working often with the Arduino IDE and I often use the "Serial Monitor" function and I realized that from version 2.X it is not possible to copy all the output but we can only copy short pieces of the log. I have searched far and wide for a solution but it seems to be a widespread and many years old problem.  Some users suggest installing an older version of the Arduino IDE, such as version 1.8 but I don't consider this a viable solution. For a moment I thought, let's create a fork of the Arduino IDE and add the features I want, since I have all the knowledge to do it, but I can't for now, I don't have enough time to do it. Precisely because of the lack of time available I asked myself how can I solve it? And I answered myself, let's try to automate the interaction with Arduino IDE and for this process I chose to use the AutoIt scripting language.  How do we normally copy the "Serial Monitor"? We select some lines and copy them
I think that computers serve to improve our experience but many times we come up against immovable software that, like mountains, does not bend to our will. For this reason I open this blog to show some of these peaks and the solutions that I have successfully applied. I hope you will be patient as I will only be able to update you in my free time, and in the hope of helping you. Thanks, Lmpeaks