2024-01-03           COMBINING EMACS AND ASCIINEMA

How to record an Emacs demo using Asciinema.

Asciinema[1] [as-kee-nuh-muh] is a free and open source solution for
recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.

However

*That is not as easy as it looks.*

Emacs special keys
-----------------

 Most terminals don't know about Meta or Ctrl, so I run

 ,----
 | xterm -fa 'Monospace' -fs 12
 `----

 because unlike Gnome-terminal, Xterm recognises the Ctrl Key. And for
 meta, I temporarily switch to using the ESC key.

 I then run Asciinema and emacsclient to connect to the running Emacs.


 ,----
 | asciinema rec -c "emacsclient -nw" -i 2 -t "Emacs Recording" \
 | /tmp/emacs-session.cast
 `----


 This command creates a local file, it does not upload it to the public
 [asciinema] server. You can replay it:

 ,----
 |  asciinema play /tmp/emacs-session.cast
 `----

[1]: https://asciinema.org/

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