How to stop serial monitor without PIO crashing

[maxgerhardt]

@joatmon13

Anytime I use the Bin icon to stop the terminal output, the PIO just freezes and I have to reopen the application.

Okay that’s weird and shouldn’t happen but also the way to close the serial monitor is to click inside it and press Ctrl+C for abort. Does that work better?

@joatmon13

I wish there was an option to pause the scroll output in serial monitor, as in Arduino IDE

PlatformIO depends on miniterm.py (the underlying serial monitor program) and VSCode here I think. Please file a feature request in Issues · platformio/platformio-vscode-ide · GitHub.

Edit: Issue opened per Pause scroll for Serial Monitor - Feature Request · Issue #2275 · platformio/platformio-vscode-ide · GitHub and serial monitor closing works better with Ctrl+C, so closing for now.