Also checkout https://wiki.gnome.org/Pinpoint, I just discovered this from a project manager at work...
Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
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Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#12Even though I really love my vim, i think sometimes it's ok to just go with LibreOffice or PowerPoint. nice job though!
I agree. I am a vim fanboy, but I don't see myself using this. Presentation is about how best you can convey an idea, and I don't see this being flexible enough to help me do that.
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#13Even though I really love my vim, i think sometimes it's ok to just go with LibreOffice or PowerPoint. nice job though!
I agree. I am a vim fanboy, but I don't see myself using this. Presentation is about how best you can convey an idea, and I don't see this being flexible enough to help me do that.
The only upside I can see, is that if you are updating very often a presentation while collaborating with someone else, it is easy to keep it under git.
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#14Related: https://github.com/fxn/tkn is a terminal-based presentation tool. Slides are written in Ruby, includes a few types of slides and even supports images if you're using iTerm2.
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#15Incorporating LaTeX for formatting would make this amazing - a WYSIWYM.
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#16Incorporating LaTeX for formatting would make this amazing - a WYSIWYM.
Just curious, why would you want something to write LaTeX for output constrained to fixed-width, low resolution output? (I've seen LaTeX used for presentations to great effect in the past, but always generated to PDF or something similar).
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. I am a vim fanboy, but I don't see myself using this. Presentation is about how best you can convey an idea, and I don't see this being flexible enough to help me do that.
The only upside I can see, is that if you are updating very often a presentation while collaborating with someone else, it is easy to keep it under git.
There are other tools that let you write slides in MarkDown, which is then compiled to HTML to be rendered in a browser: https://github.com/search?q=markdown+slides&type=Repositorie...
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#18What's the equivalent for emacs?
AuCTeX+LaTeX+Beamer
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#19I don't see myself firing up vim on a projector and doing an entire presentation that way, but this sounds like it could potentially be useful as a tool for explaining things to team members (it's not uncommon to huddle around a text editor anyway). Terminal meets whiteboard.
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#20Looks cool. I've used something similar called vroom[1] once, and it worked quite well. But as soon as I realised I want to show a live webpage (or an image), I had to switch to a browser, and then it was easier to just switch to a markdown to html presentation tool instead (I picked remark[2] which I would recommend).
That said, I think it's important to focus on the core points of the presentation and not get distracted by graphics and layouts. It makes your presentations way better.
[1]http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Vroom-0.23/lib/Vroom.pm [2]https://github.com/gnab/remark