Patat
Dev tools
terminal presentation tool
SHOW HN2016
167points
13comments
#188of 2,264 in 2016
Top 9%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for text-based presentations and demos
From 2 comments
I welcome anything that support textual interfaces. Thanks and kudos. Also, naming award.
agumonkey on HNThis is great. I'd love to see something like this with terminal image support for iTerm and Terminology. If I display images in slides it's only usually 1 image on it's own or…
Lio on HN
Objections
Terminal presentations don't look polished
From 1 comment
Terminal-based presentations generally don't look quite presentable. I'd rather use suckless.org's sent. It's a very similar tool for graphical presentations, although it doesn't…
qwertyuiop924 on HN
High memory use (about 19MB) when loading a file
From 1 comment
If I load test/03.md with it, the process consumes around 19MB. Is that expected and normal for displaying ansi text?
cm3 on HN
Requests
Terminal image support for iTerm and Terminology
From 1 comment
This is great. I'd love to see something like this with terminal image support for iTerm and Terminology. If I display images in slides it's only usually 1 image on it's own or…
Lio on HN
Questions
Is there a practical use case or just novelty?
From 1 comment
It's a neat project, and props on bringing it to fruition! But do you see there being a practical use case for this kind of presentation, or did you create this purely for the…
fvargas on HN
Alternatives named
suckless sent
From 2 comments
In addition to the prior art the author links in the README, there's also the suckless.org project ssg[0]. For something a little more graphically oriented, there's Tom…
jboynyc on HNTerminal-based presentations generally don't look quite presentable. I'd rather use suckless.org's sent. It's a very similar tool for graphical presentations, although it doesn't…
qwertyuiop924 on HN
tpp
From 1 comment
I like tpp (http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html). Syntax is easy to learn. It can simulate shell interaction and you can shell out from within the presentation. And it's been feature…
xn on HN
Pinpoint
From 1 comment
As an other text based presentation tool I recommend Pinpoint, which also supports transitions or PDF export: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Pinpoint
Klasiaster on HN
ssg and biggie
From 1 comment
In addition to the prior art the author links in the README, there's also the suckless.org project ssg[0]. For something a little more graphically oriented, there's Tom…
jboynyc on HN