Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org-mode screencasts

[Scot Becker]

Richard,

That's a great intro screencast.

Scot


On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Jeff Kowalczyk <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>> One thing that would be really excellent is to show keystrokes as you do
>> the tutorial. I don't know what system you're using, but this link:
>>
>> http://screencasters.heathenx.org/blog/2009/04/06/smaller-key-status-monitor/
>>
>>
>> Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>> mwe-log-commands may be particularly useful for an emacs related
>> screencast http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/mwe-log-commands.el
>
> It would be extremely nice for screencasting Emacs to have a configurable 
> input
> and prompt display similar to the calc trail.
>
> Wish list:
>
> - stack view of the keystream from view-lossage
> - annotations (i.e. an overlay) when a binding dispatches a command
>  using the mechanism from mwe-log-commands.
> - annotations of minibuffer prompts
> - annotations of keybinding hints
>
> The view-lossage stream doesn't use the format one would want for user
> documentation:
>
> C-x b f o o <return> <return> <menu> v i e w - l o s s a g e <return>
>
> Something like the following would be more like documentation:
>
> C-x b [switch-to-buffer]
> f o o RET [minibuffer input]
> RET [minibuffer prompt confirm]
> [visiting buffer] foo
> M-x [<menu>]
> v i e w - l o s s a g e RET [minibuffer input]
> [visiting buffer] *Help*
>
> The parts in [brackets] are intended to indicate some kind of face overlay. As
> uncolored plaintext the information is just distracting.
>
> Another tool, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ScreencastMode has good ideas for
> keybinding hints and one-key stepthrough. I don't think the typed-text 
> narration
> style is a good fit for these particular screencasts and their target 
> audience,
> however.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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