ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:39 pm #41296 I think the IDE does a very good job at making MCU development accessible to everyone, but I'm more efficient in vim.

Can I use the Arduino programming language but edit source files with vim and compile/flash with the command line? What tools would I need?

- Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:11 pm #41301 You can use http://platformio.org which is supporting ESP8266

- Wed Feb 17, 2016 5:25 pm #41314 There is also https://github.com/plerup/makeEspArduino which allows you to build and flash from the command line using whatever editor you want. Works on Linux, don't know about OSX or Windows.

- Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:55 am #41336 The recent IDE (1.6.7) uses something called arduino-builder which can be used without the IDE.
It's a separate project in github : https://github.com/arduino/arduino-builder .

It appears to recompile much more than needed, as the IDE did before this change.