Interactive Tape Writing

[maaslalani]

VHS should have an interactive mode for writing tape files which would look something like:

vhs record

Which would open up a browser terminal and listen to your browser events and write to a tape file. This would make it much easier to write tape files but still keep them easily editable for modifications and tweaks for the final render.

[paralin]

Open a browser tab - would that be better / easier to implement than running a shell as a subprocess and forwarding stdio to the user?

[maaslalani]

Yeah thinking about it more we'll probably end up just writing a CLI/TUI that listens to keypress to keep it more lightweight.

[gmatev]

Indeed the ability to capture a terminal session to seed the tape file would be huge. Especially useful, if you are trying to record something that has more sophisticated interactions like animations done using ASCI cursor control sequences.

[maaslalani]

@paralin @gmatev I have a working prototype at #135 if you want to give it a go!

[paralin]

Now we have vhs record and https://github.com/rsteube/cast2tape - nice!