Article 2NB4B ASCII cinema: animated text-only embeds

ASCII cinema: animated text-only embeds

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Rob Beschizza
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Ascii Cinema is a purely text-based way to record and view, well, text. Whether it's terminal sessions or gorgeous ASCII animations such as those created by MapSCII, this means you get crisp, copy/pastable 1:1 representations of the input and output in a form as easily embedded as a YouTube video.

Simple recording
Record right where you work - in a terminal. To start just run asciinema rec, to finish hit Ctrl-D or type exit.

Copy & paste
Any time you see a command you'd like to try in your own terminal just pause the player and copy-paste the content you want. It's just a text after all!

Embedding
Easily embed an asciicast player in your blog post, project documentation page or in your conference talk slides.

Here are a few pretty examples: (more")

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