Recording any terminal session to a gif is easy. I use ttyrec to record a session and ttygif to convert it to GIF.
Installation
First we have to install the Go-language, ttyrec and git:
apt-get install golang ttyrec git
Using our installed go-environment, we can create a directory for our downloaded go-programs and install ttygif(yes, it’s a go-prog):
mkdir /opt/goprogs
export GOPATH=/opt/goprogs/
go get github.com/sugyan/ttygif
Recording a (vim)session
Recording a terminal-session using ttyrec is easy. I will record a vim-session and I want to start the session in english and without any special initialisations. Therefore I have to tweak the settings a little bit:
ttyrec -e "env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 vim -u NONE" recordfile
Converting the recorded file to GIF
Converting to gif is easy like this:
$GOPATH/bin/ttygif -in recordfile -out example.gif
