What is the benfit of doing this in the terminal over tools such as Slidev or Marp which also allow you to make slides based on Markdown?
- Slidev: https://sli.dev/
- Marp: https://marp.app/
- Slidev: https://sli.dev/
- Marp: https://marp.app/
I had a few code examples to massage out of a codebase, so I fired up vim to make them simpler/clearer before I'd put them in Keynote.
Then I started taking a few notes in a scratch buffer. After a few moments I began to dread having to move that content over and format in the UI and all.
... And then it dawned on me that I could just use vim itself as the presentation tool!
- one tab per slide, one file per tab
- gt/gT (:tabnext :tabprev) to move through
- ,z (junegunn/goyo :Goyo) for a "hudless" display
- splits and :terminal on live demo time
- ,b (junegunn/fzf.vim :Buffers) to jump to any "slide" on question time (just name files appropriately)
- prepare the whole thing and save session with :mksession
Mine wasn't markdown tho: I used ttyrec to record a terminal session to a file per slide and the tool just played it back. I set it up so pressing most keys would advance the playback hackertyper style, advancing 200ms per keypress IIRC. When you reach the end of a slide, press return for the next one. The back and forward arrows were used to jump between slides quickly, and title text was done with figlet.
I only used it for a couple of in house presentations and meetups where the hacker styling was appropriate; there wasn't much to it so the code wasn't released, it'd be easy to recreate.
edited to add: I forgot, I did put it in a gist. https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/a267b97a52f7a1f70c46 ymmv. I recall the playback struggled with things like vim, I always meant to try integrating as cinema since it seems to work better