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Re: Asciinema

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Post by miles »

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #67
miles wrote: post #54

I love script[1,2] for this sort of thing. Why wait for a video to play? Or host it on a third-party site? Having the entire session visible on a single, static page is less frustrating in most circumstances I encounter. Having said that, Asciinema certainly looks like fun. [1] http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?script [2] Sample session: https://tinyapps.org/blog/nix/201107170745_copy_terminal_tex...

I was thinking the same thing... but then I realized it works, say, for an ed session, but not for a vi session. Of course, all that visual mode nonsense is just bloatware ;).

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

Re: Asciinema

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Post by chrismorgan »

I find the timing of this amusing—I was just, in putting the finishing touches on my own project which is basically but with ttyrec scripts for src, writing down my analysis of all the different options there are out there, and I saw this entry up here just as I was writing about asciinema.

asciinema’s player has the distinction of being the only one I know of not based on term.js (https://github.com/chjj/term.js).

Re: Asciinema

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Post by userbinator »

chrismorgan wrote: post #73

I find the timing of this amusing—I was just, in putting the finishing touches on my own project which is basically but with ttyrec scripts for src, writing down my analysis of all the different options there are out there, and I saw this entry up here just as I was writing about asciinema. asciinema’s player has the distinction of being the only one I know of not based on term.js ( https://github.com/chjj/term.js ).

On the subject of amusing names, since this one looks so similar to "ascii enema", wouldn't yours be the "titty player"? :-)

Re: Asciinema

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Post by cooper12 »

pareshverma91 wrote: post #37

Looks great. But I think quite a few people (the audience with which the recording would be shared) would like to see the entire session at once instead of watching the entire video. It would also be helpful for the writer to quickly verify if they missed something.

Yeah maybe a button to "View Transcript"

Re: Asciinema

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Post by cooper12 »

mrschwabe wrote: post #69

It's be great to have a polished product like this but for programming sessions in a text editor like Sublime.

Just curious, what benefit would this have over something like git? Just to show your programming process?

Re: Asciinema

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Post by jmaygarden »

tobbyb wrote: post #50

ttyrec is a tiny terminal utility that does this on your terminal. It was released in 2000, it's one of those nice little gems one is glad to discover. It records and playbacks terminal sessions. The recorded files are in kb's. [1] It's simple to use. 'ttyrec filename' starts recording, ctrl-c to stop recording. 'ttyplay filename' to playback. Of course with asciinema.org, you get the benefit of an html player for th…

I first came across ttyrec for use in saving NetHack replays.

http://alt.org/nethack/

Re: Asciinema

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Post by fallat »

tobbyb wrote: post #50

ttyrec is a tiny terminal utility that does this on your terminal. It was released in 2000, it's one of those nice little gems one is glad to discover. It records and playbacks terminal sessions. The recorded files are in kb's. [1] It's simple to use. 'ttyrec filename' starts recording, ctrl-c to stop recording. 'ttyplay filename' to playback. Of course with asciinema.org, you get the benefit of an html player for th…

You know this calls for a ttyrec html player...!
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