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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • amazing!
      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 HN
    • Not 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 HN
    • 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
  • Browser acting as a tmux client

    From 1 comment

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 HN
    • asciinema 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

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