SemiLive is a really simple Sublime Text 3 plugin that advances through a series of text injection steps, making it appear as if you are typing as you go and then highlighting the injected text afterwards. Useful for doing "Live Code" walkthroughs where you want to build up a code file as you narrate and have it be runnable, but didn't have time to practice and are panicking on a Friday night about how you could possible memorize all of that code in time. ahem
The plugin has the nice properties of visually "typing" the injected strings so that observers are visually drawn to the motion to more easily follow along. It also highlights the typed text after each step to help it stand out.
I used it for the demo coding section of my 2017 Google I/O talk
Yes, Absolutely. But that probably doesn't matter. If you're "live coding" to show off your typing skills then you shouldn't use this. But chances are that your audience is more interested in hearing you explain what's happening at each step than watching you hammer away at a keyboard.
Drop semilive.py and semilive.sublime-settings into your Sublime Text 3 "Packages/User" directory. (Find it by going to the "Preferences->Browse Packages" menu item). Then you can run the plugin commands from the console or (more usefully) bind them to shortcut keys.
semilive_next: Play the next step in the scriptsemilive_reset: Reset the step counter to 0
The script is defined in the semilive.sublime-settings file. A script array
defines a series of JSON objects that use the following keys:
after: A string to search for which theinserttext will be inserted afterreplace: A string to search for which will be replaced by theinserttextinsert: A string or list of strings to be inserted after theafterstring or which will replace thereplacestringinstant: If true will not simulate typing character by characterhighlight: If false will not highlight theinsertstrings after insertion
For examples see the default semilive.sublime-settings