Init commit with many years of arduino sketches and projects. I dont know if the esp8266 includes much, but there are also libraries. I hope they dont have crazy automatic versioning through the Arduino IDE.

Projects/gps/raw_outputSoftwareSerial/raw_outputSoftwareSerial.ino

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+#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
+
+// The serial connection to the GPS module
+SoftwareSerial gpsSerial(4, 3);
+
+void setup(){
+  Serial.begin(9600);
+  gpsSerial.begin(9600);
+}
+
+void loop(){
+  while (gpsSerial.available()) {         // check for gps data 
+    Serial.write(gpsSerial.read());
+  }
+}