tmux2html
Dev tools
terminal output rendering
SHOW HN2016
99points
28comments
#378of 2,264 in 2016
Top 17%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.44.
Idea: 3 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive visual output and useful for demos
From 3 comments
Whoa, that's amazing. I don't use tmux, but I'm considering it just because of this super fancy tool here. I would like to hear about interesting use cases. Is that when you want…
fiatjaf on HNThis is great! I use tmux all the time. Even went as far as setting up a dedicated "tmux server" when I was more focused on systems. This tool will definitely come in handy.…
kempbellt on HNamazing!
zchee on HN
Objections
Animated examples may drain battery or perform poorly on low-end devices
From 1 comment
Example rendered sessions. Warning: The animated examples might not be impressive on low performance devices, and they may drain your battery if you leave them opened. Color…
tommyallen on HN
Requests
Live streaming of terminal sessions
From 2 comments
That is really cool! Could you use this to "livestream" a terminal session in real-time?
pimlottc on HNNot real-time, but yes, kind of. Add `--stream` to the command. Here's an example of it rendering every second: https://share.esdf.io/log.html It is displaying the log file for…
tommyallen on HN
Key input overlay for demos
From 2 comments
asciinema[1] does a similar thing but captures a whole terminal session. If somebody would add key input overlay support[2], it would actually be tremendously useful for…
martanne on HNWell technically you could inline the Javascript+CSS stuff and you would get a single HTML file ;) No need to write anything, it already exists. Anyway I didn't mean to…
martanne on HN
Browser acting as a tmux client
From 1 comment
Complete the loop. Make the browser a tmux client...
sebastic on HN
Questions
Whether tmux can capture pressed keys
From 1 comment
Don't worry about me. I won't be discouraged about anything :) I want to be able to produce GIFs since that's relatively easy enough, but it got me thinking that there just needs…
tommyallen on HN
Interesting use cases for tmux
From 1 comment
Whoa, that's amazing. I don't use tmux, but I'm considering it just because of this super fancy tool here. I would like to hear about interesting use cases. Is that when you want…
fiatjaf on HN
Alternatives named
asciinema
From 2 comments
asciinema[1] does a similar thing but captures a whole terminal session. If somebody would add key input overlay support[2], it would actually be tremendously useful for…
martanne on HNasciinema stores the raw program output including any terminal escape sequences in a JSON format[1] and then uses a javascript terminal emulation library to replay/recreate the…
martanne on HN
gotty
From 1 comment
I thought about it, but it would bring this outside of the scope of a weekend project :) Besides, gotty might be better suited for that task: https://github.com/yudai/gotty
tommyallen on HN
mkcast
From 1 comment
Well technically you could inline the Javascript+CSS stuff and you would get a single HTML file ;) No need to write anything, it already exists. Anyway I didn't mean to…
martanne on HN