Recommended Only With Particular Settings Or Add-Ons; Editors That Are Not Recommended; Advanced Serial Console On Windows; Windows 7 And 8.1 - Adafruit ESP32-S3 Manual

Recommended only with particular settings or add-ons

• vim () / vi safely writes all changes. But set up vim to not write
files: temporary records of your edits) to CIRCUITPY. Run vim with
the
no swapfile
elsewhere. Otherwise the swapfile writes trigger restarts of your program.
• The PyCharm
Settings->Synchronization (true by default).
• If you are using Atom (), install
circuitpython
CUITPY.
• SlickEdit () works only if
The editors listed below are specifically NOT recommended!

Editors that are NOT recommended

• notepad (the default Windows editor) and Notepad++ can be slow to write, so
the editors above are recommended! If you are using notepad, be sure to eject
the drive.
• IDLE in Python 3.8.0 or earlier does not force out changes immediately.
• nano (on Linux) does not force out changes.
• geany (on Linux) does not force out changes.
• Anything else - Other editors have not been tested so please use a
recommended one!

Advanced Serial Console on Windows

Windows 7 and 8.1

If you're using Windows 7 (or 8 or 8.1), you'll need to install drivers. See the
and 8.1 Drivers page ()
Windows 10.
You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Windows 10 if you are still using Windows
7 or Windows 8 or 8.1. Windows 7 has reached end-of-life and no longer receives
security updates. A free upgrade to Windows 10 is
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option, or set the
IDE () is safe if "Safe Write" is turned on in Settings->System
the fsync-on-save
package () so that it will always write out all changes to files on CIR
you add a macro to flush the
for details. You will not need to install drivers on Mac, Linux or
option to write swapfiles
directory
package ()
disk ().
still available ().
swapfiles () (.swp
, set
vim -n
or the language-
Windows 7
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