Cut and paste!!

Posted Jan 13, 2026 0:36 UTC (Tue) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
Parent article: Asciinema: making movies at the command-line

The ability to cut-and-paste sounds huge. This would be so great for tutorials or quick start guides. I can think of so many GitHub pages where I would love to have one of these sessions pasted alongside the README.

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Cut and paste!!

Posted Jan 13, 2026 8:15 UTC (Tue) by gedeon (subscriber, #21965) [Link] (1 responses)

Huge indeed... if you realize it ;-). I have known the project for years and already watched a few recordings, but never realized until reading this article that you could copy and paste the content. I always wrongly assumed it was just taking advantage of the text nature to compress better but was like a video player otherwise. Silly me. :-(

Cut and paste!!

Posted Jan 13, 2026 8:55 UTC (Tue) by claudex (subscriber, #92510) [Link]

For your defense, not everybody use the JavaScript version, they are lot of places (presentation, github readme...) where the gif/video version is shown, so you can't copy-paste.