arduino-cli-mode is an Emacs minor mode for using the excellent new arduino command line interface
in an Emacs-native fashion. The mode covers the full range of
arduino-cli features in an Emacs native fashion. It even
leverages the infinite power the GNU to provide fussy-finding
of libraries and much improved support for handling multiple boards.
The commands that originally require multiple steps (such as first
searching for a library and then separately installing it) have
been folded into one.
Until the package is published on melpa, I recommend using straight.el.
If you want to automatically enable arduino-cli-mode on .ino files, you have to get auto-minor-mode.
Once that is installed, add the following to your init:
(add-to-list 'auto-minor-mode-alist '("\\.ino\\'" . arduino-cli-mode))The default keymap prefix is C-c C-a.
The following keybindings are provided out of the box.
| Function | Keymap |
|---|---|
| Compile | C-c C-a c |
| Upload | C-c C-a u |
| Compile and Upload | C-c C-a b |
| List Connected Boards | C-c C-a l |
| Create new sketch | C-c C-a n |
| Install a Library | C-c C-a i |
| Uninstall a Library | C-c C-a u |
- Does not support
board attachcommands - Only tested on macOS (but will probably work on other Unices)
- The fact that I decided against calling it
elduino-mode
This mode is not an Arduino major mode, it only provides convenient access to arduino-cli.
If you are looking for something like that, check out arduino-mode.
In fact, I think they would complement each other rather well, as arduino-mode lacks support
for arduino-cli, simply due to pre-dating it with a decade.
If you want auto-completion for Arduino development, see company-arduino.
Depending on your board, you might also enjoy platform-io-mode, an excellent wrapper that I took a lot of inspiration from while writing this one.
This is my first real elisp project, so everything from code review to feature implementations are welcome! The plan is to support (more or less) the entire feature set of arduino-cli, and then go into maintenance mode.