Like most on this list, I love TextMate.
There are tons of useful features in it, and I keep finding new ones every date.
I just stumbled on the Cmd-T file-find the other day, in fact. I just learned that my peeve about columnar selection was based on my ignorance of the fact that you can toggle to columnar by hitting Option after starting the selection. Every day, I'm pleasantly surprised by a new feature.
However (and you knew that was coming...), the help files are a bit sparse, and the discoverability of some features is pretty bad.
(By the way, the documentation wiki[1] seems to be down right now.)
Screencasts are all the rage now, and I was thinking of making little 30 second - 1 minute demo vids of some useful but hidden TextMate features.
The problem with that idea is that it's not just the screen people will be interested in, but the keyboard interaction.
I'd like to provide a keyboard overlay on the demo vids, which would show which keys are being depressed to get the specific features to activate.
Does anyone know how to do this?
I'm familiar with vnc2swf and wink. I'm also considering buying Camtasia and/or Snapz Pro.
I guess a "stay-on-top" utility could be used and just be captured along with the subject app usage.
Any pointers appreciated...
On 23/11/2005, at 19:31, Jeremy Dunck wrote:
[...] I'd like to provide a keyboard overlay on the demo vids, which would show which keys are being depressed to get the specific features to activate.
Does anyone know how to do this?
System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu.
Here you can enable the Keyboard Viewer, which can then be brought up from the input method. Here's an example of the Keyboard Viewer in use: http://macromates.com/movies/rubymate_wrap.mov
I'm familiar with vnc2swf and wink. I'm also considering buying Camtasia and/or Snapz Pro.
I use Snapz Pro X, but have no experience with the other utilities.
And I'd gladly provide “infrastructure” for user-submitted screen- casts (like an aggregated feed).
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