Open the-mikedavis opened 1 year ago
Some nice to haves that could be included in the new clip:
Something like a small popup on the edge of the clip announcing the current feature being demoed as the video progresses would also be nice since it's hard to understand what's happening on first watch.
Something like a small popup on the edge of the clip announcing the current feature being demoed
that's a nice suggestion... but this would require some kind of additional place. that additional place can be:
mode | method | comments |
---|---|---|
video | post-production | not in house, not doable in one go, needs lots of additional work |
video | additional window or split while recording | still not totally in house, depends on additional software |
ascii | using bufferline to show feature name | totally in house, doable in one go, best way in my opinion |
This can be criticised in following way:
One way to overcome that can be:
For opening multiple files, the regex star wildcard *
can be used...
Is the order of opening of the files using * defined/deterministic? if yes, then good.
The first buffer can be sort of a cover page, so, the following for e.g.
The first command showcased can be: set bufferline multiple
HELIX FEATURE SHOWCASE
V22.12 on 2023.02.04
Kakoune uses a carousel/separate sections to highlight different features (http://kakoune.org/). Perhaps we could put an image in the header, then display features below
that makes sense in the long run, saves from demanding recurerrence of such outdations.
the way i suggested can be used for showcasing the features for "whats new" release videos.
which feature should the header image show?
i guess
that will showcase LSP, popup support, diagnostics (called virtual text?), gutter indicators - all in single frame
the screenshot took from the current showcase video itself is a apt example, checks all the points i mentioned
(taking from that above "mentioned in" issue)
oh wait i can select the text in that video?? waowww!!
so, it really issss asciinema. i always wondered why it was always called that and not just video. awesome.
i had no idea there was a dedicated player around asciinema - i thought it (edit: it was asciicast) was only limited to terminals for debugging (as that's only where i saw it), but yeah, it makes sense someone made a player around it
The jumbotron asciinema recording at https://helix-editor.com/ is a little dated at this point: there are some changes in the UI that are missing in the video. At some point we should re-record the clip to show off some newer flashy features like soft-wrap.