Arduino Emacs development

Question

I would like to use Emacs as a development environment for Arduino programming. What are some tips or links to use Emacs to program Arduino?

Is there an official (or de facto) Emacs mode?

Also, am I going to miss something in Arduino IDE if I use Emacs exclusively?

Answer 1

There's a nice Arduino mode on GitHub.

Just wraps cc-mode, but it does a nice job.

Update:

The EmacsWiki has a page dedicated to Ardunio Support for Emacs. The setup has a few steps but once done it allows you to compile and upload sketches from inside Emacs.

Answer 2

You can enable an external editor option that will allow you to edit projects using external editors and then use the Arduino IDE as some kind of terminal just for compiling and uploading.

I just edit stuff in Emacs, then switch to the IDE to just hit compile and upload. No need for makefiles.