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Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences

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103 points linsomniac | 7 comments | 19 Nov 24 02:25 UTC | HN request time: 1.012s | source | bottom
1. pointlessone ◴[19 Nov 24 09:56 UTC] No.42181710[source]▶
Animated images in the readme are not a very good experience. I’m trying to read the output and make sense of it and it just blinks out. There’s no good reason to have animation here. We all know how text is typed in the terminal.
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2. kreetx ◴[19 Nov 24 10:21 UTC] No.42181882[source]▶
It shows the CLI use, seems pretty useful to me.
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3. arcanemachiner ◴[19 Nov 24 10:38 UTC] No.42181976[source]▶
Good use case for Asciinema.

https://asciinema.org

https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema

EDIT: Looks like image generator might be from one of their own projects:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

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4. Timwi ◴[19 Nov 24 11:34 UTC] No.42182327[source]▶
It doesn't show anything a still image that I can just read wouldn't also show. It has no upside and only downsides.
5. Gormo ◴[19 Nov 24 13:40 UTC] No.42183293[source]▶
Given the purpose of the tool, it seems like the most appropriate solution would be to use ANSI itself to animate the text.
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6. zellyn ◴[19 Nov 24 14:22 UTC] No.42183720{3}[source]▶
Is that not what asciinema does?
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7. Gormo ◴[20 Nov 24 01:18 UTC] No.42189892{4}[source]▶
No, asciinema uses a custom data format to store the terminal data, then uses custom JS to play it back within a web site.

I'm talking about just distributing ANSI files.