Randolph Sapp

@jrial I'm going to try to replicate this so, just to be sure, where are you getting this board's config from? Did you just add `http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json` to the Additional Boards...

Alright, that board config actually has its own options that are set inside the Arduino IDE through new entries in the Tools context menu. We currently don't support these advanced...

Alright, awesome. I'll poke around and see what I can figure out. I just wanted to see if this was something you'd be interested in, especially considering you ultimately control...

@Sorunome sorry for the silence. I've gotten dragged in a completely different direction by a number of things. Atom fell back on Electron4 (going against my rolling release mentality and...

Implementing a pause button would mean having a buffer document to catch the serial output when it's not updating the displayed copy. Perhaps this can be accomplished without the buffer...

> I also see that it's using an older version of the Arduino, 1.6.21, right? Can that be an issue? Ordinarily it could, but I just compiled this on 1.8.5...

Sounds like you didn't send `apm config set msvs_version [VERSION]` where `[VERSION]` was noted as being 2015 for the build-tools package. That being said, this does hint at the serialport...

A nice idea, however I believe editing the menu's style could achieve a similar effect without allowing the user to select a null board.

 Visual Example

@humitos I took a stab at it in #1648 . Please let me know if there is any feedback.