One thing that I think could help out a bit would be to show key commands as they are pressed as well. I'd love to use this to show my students software development things (using vim or emacs for editor), but showing them the keypresses I make as well is critical for some text editors newbies.
Text-based terminal screencasts
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Re: Text-based terminal screencasts
#32Nice - it automagically translates "CSI 38:5:FG m CSI 48:5:BG m" properly. ( http://showterm.io/6ed840f381fd81a881176 ) This will be very useful! That said, I have to second the concern above that it should ask for confirmation before uploading; just auto-uploading could be an in issue if somebody accidentally pastes sensitive information into the terminal.
I just created a recording using Gate One of the same command (well, I think it is the same) for comparison purposes:
http://riskable.com/files/GateOne_recording-20130810130840.h...
Try resizing your browser while that is playing back (go really small) for a special treat :)
Re: Text-based terminal screencasts
#33Re: Text-based terminal screencasts
#34One thing that I think could help out a bit would be to show key commands as they are pressed as well. I'd love to use this to show my students software development things (using vim or emacs for editor), but showing them the keypresses I make as well is critical for some text editors newbies.
I regret I have but one upvote to give this feature. Can't wait to play around with this.
edit: I actually was thinking about this feature on tty.js rather than showterm.io. I might see how hard it would be to implement it.
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#36I wonder about credentials leaking to the service. When I show off connecting to a server that uses login/password, will this also be recorded and uploaded or only keys that actually change the ui?
How about ncurses apps?
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#37Q1: is there a way to download the resulting screencast so that it can be viewed off the network? Q2: is there a way to do this without having to upload anything? e.g. pipe to a file locally?
try script(1) and scriptreplay(1)
This unfortunately doesn't support the use case of simply wanting to personally back up the screencasts sent to showterm.io.
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#38Here's another interesting library by floobits: https://floobits.com/help/floomatic/
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#39awesome. I tried a while ago with terminalcast.com. hopefully this gets more traction. integration with native terminal emulators would be great, so you can start recording at any point in time.
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#40If I want to go back on your site, it keeps me on your site. Absolutely infuriating, remove this.