It would be cool to have a built-in tool to record a terminal session; this would make it easy to create demos and tutorials with no demo ghosts.
Basic feature could be a animated gif
The more advanced could be a playback where you get a live terminal that plays back the recorded session and leaves it open for continued use.
FrodeHus
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Or take an easy route and use a recording program?
And use another third party to record and playback keystrokes? 馃檭
GreenMan36
on 7 May 2019
This is a really great feature idea that I think everyone on the team would be on board with.
IIRC there's already some sort of terminal recording format, that we might be able to use for this. @DHowett-MSFT has an idea for it a little while back, though I can't remember how it went exactly.
zadjii-msft
on 7 May 2019
Some prior art for this space:
asciinema: https://asciinema.org/
terminalizer: https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer
RichiCoder1
on 7 May 2019
There are also popular tools using SVG SMIL, such as https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg
Not perfect but it makes super light and fancy files.
And apparently Microsoft wasn't a fan 馃槄
Or take an easy route and use a recording program?
Screen recording softwares exist, but what is asked here is a terminal recorder. None of the ones listed above work on Windows
gpotter2
on 8 May 2019
(I've fairly well convinced myself I'm going to use asciicast (from asciinema) for this. It somewhat fits with the "connection" model, too -- we could play back casts just as well as we could capture them by plugging a cast reader in as a terminal connection.)
DHowett-MSFT
on 9 May 2019
(Sounds good: asciicast can be converted to many formats using a variety of tools)
gpotter2
on 9 May 2019
Might I suggest people look to the videos from Bisqwit
He created his own Linux Terminal where he plays recorded keystrokes for the aesthetic quality of the video.
It could be good to enable recording and playback, but also it could be neat to enable batch files to be played out when run?
mdtauk
on 10 May 2019
Hi,
cool would be to have watermark set in screencast mode. Something like that
https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer#watermark
renatoassis01
on 14 Jun 2019
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(I've fairly well convinced myself I'm going to use asciicast (from asciinema) for this. It somewhat fits with the "connection" model, too -- we could play back casts just as well as we could capture them by plugging a cast reader in as a terminal connection.)