ScreencastDirector a Sublime Text 2 Plugin by colinta

You write a YAML file that contains director commands. As you run each command, it looks like you are typing them yourself, but with a conspicuous lack of typos, and an unlikely clarity of thought.

Here is the transcript for this video:

“yaml - clear - write: "Now I have just activated ScreenDirector using" - nl - write_inside: "ctrl+pagedown`. Let the demo begin!” - nl

• clear

• write: [‘First, printing multiple lines’, ‘using “write” and an array.’, ‘line one’, ‘line two’, ‘line three’]

• write: [‘Next, emulating quote matching’, ‘using “write_inside”.’]

• write_inside: “‘string in single quotes’”

• nl

• write_inside: [“‘”, “again, using array”, “’”]

• nl

• write_inside:

  • “‘”
  • write: “you can nest commands,”
  • nl
  • write: “ too!”
  • “’”

• nl

• write: ‘Moving around using “go”’

• nl

• delay: 1500 # pause for 1.5 secs

• go: -10 # go back ten

• write: HI!

• delay: 1500 # pause for 1.5 secs

• go: 10 # return to previous position

• select_all

• delay: 1500 # pause for 1.5 secs

• delete

• delay: 500 # pause for .5 secs

• write: | I’m gonna do the same thing, but using clear instead of select_all + delete

• delay: 1500 # pause for 1.5 secs

• clear

• setmark # same as setmark: tmp

• write: ‘<– Mark set at tmp.’

• nl

• setmark: mymark_name

• write: ‘<– Mark set at mymarkname’

• nl

• gotomark # same as gotomark: tmp

• write: ‘Back at tmp’

• gotomark: mymark_name

• write: ‘Back at mymarkname’

• set_mark

• write: “this will be deleted in one second”

• delay: 1000

• selectfrommark

• delete

• write: “I will fix this mitsake.”

• delay: 500

• go: -5

• delay: 500

• runcommand: [transposecharacter] “`