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How is this better than basic linear scrollable text? You don't have to waste time waiting for letters to appear at a pace slower than your reading speed. You don't worry about missing a moment and then trying to rewind with the imprecise controls (and you can't use text search to instantly find the word you remember) of broken full-screen button like it's on this website when viewed on a smartphone

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I generally see it used to demo a TUI, to great effect.

Good point, I mostly remember the cli sequences as shown in the demo (which are only better than the gif alternative). The TUI version should be their primary demo!

I fully agree, this would be pretty much impossible to demo with just plain text: https://asciinema.org/a/659042

I assume this plays nice with tuis? Ex. you can use this to record vim, which scrollback doesn't do

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