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Michael Jumper commented on GUACAMOLE-329:
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* recording editors such as vim or nano is not possible (in an elegant way at
least!).
* playing terminal recordings in colorful way is not possible.
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[~akj88], can you explain how the above limitations apply to traditional
typescripts? It's definitely possible to replay recordings involving editors
like vim, and the same goes for colors.
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* playing typescripts like a video with forward/backward capability is not
possible (or at least not easy!).
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Seeking within a typescript is impossible, as terminal output is the result of
incremental changes, and as far as I can tell the "asciinema" format (which the
project refers to as "asciicast") is no different, being made up of a series of
incremental changes:
https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/blob/master/doc/asciicast-v1.md
If asciinema's player provides for seeking, then that must be a feature of the
player, not of the recordings themselves.
If what you're looking for is a true video recording of the terminal session,
you can always record the session graphically rather than in text format,
translating the resulting graphical recording to video using the guacenc
utility.
> Adding asciinema support for terminal recording
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>
> Key: GUACAMOLE-329
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-329
> Project: Guacamole
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: guacamole-server
> Affects Versions: 0.9.12-incubating
> Reporter: Abolfazl Kazemi
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: features
>
> Terminal recording is done using typescript. This has some limitations:
> * recording editors such as vim or nano is not possible (in an elegant way at
> least!).
> * playing typescripts like a video with forward/backward capability is not
> possible (or at least not easy!).
> * playing terminal recordings in colorful way is not possible.
> Adding terminal recording using another library such as *asciinema* would be
> really nice and useful.
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