TDVIEW(1)

📦 version 2.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 TDVIEW(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for tdview, which lives in the termdebug family of tools. if you've ever recorded yourself doing stuff in a terminal and then wanted to watch it back like it's a lil movie? yeah. that's this. 🎬

✨ NAME ✨

tdview — show the recorded output of a terminal program. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it beautifully 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tdview [OPTIONS] RECORDING

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

tdview shows the recorded output of a terminal program. like, it plays back what got captured.

the recording it's showing you can be made by either tdrecord(1) or tdrerecord(1). so you need one of those first — tdview is the watcher, not the recorder. no cap 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

tdview accepts the following options, and honestly? there's only three of them plus a lil escape hatch. manageable. iconic. ⭐

  • -h, --help — display a short help message. the classic "wait what does this do again" button 🎀
  • -V, --version — print version and copyright information. so you can see what you're working with ✨
  • -kdelay, --key-delay=delay — set the delay for sending a the next keys to delay. the delay can be either a fixed number of miliseconds, or you can specify it as a / (slash) followed by a divisor. when you specify a divisor, all the key delays specified in the recording get divided by that divisor. so it's giving fast-forward energy, but for the keystrokes specifically 🔥
okay so here's the thing about file names that start with a dash — tdview is gonna look at those and go "ooh an option" when you meant "ooh a file". to stop it from doing that, drop a double dash (--) and tdview will interpret any following arguments as files to read. problem solved, we love a workaround 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

if you think you've found a bug, please check that you're using the latest version of termdebug first — <http://os.ghalkes.nl/termdebug> 🧚

when you're reporting a bug, please include a minimal example that demonstrates the problem. like actually minimal. the smallest lil reproduction that shows the chaos. that way it gets fixed faster and everyone wins 🙈

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

G.P. Halkes <termdebug@ghalkes.nl>

Copyright © 2010,2012-2013 G.P. Halkes

termdebug is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.

for more details on the license, see the file COPYING in the documentation directory. on Un*x systems this is usually /usr/share/doc/termdebug — go peek, it's right there 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

like, the whole squad. iykyk 🎀

and that's the page!! this is from termdebug version 2.2, dated 2013/03/03. go watch some terminal recordings bestie, you've got this 🌸✨💜

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