[Melbourne-pm] Presentation tool that simulates typing on a tty...

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Tue Apr 19 18:08:08 PDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 16:14, Damian Conway <damian at conway.org> wrote:
> Daniel Pittman asked:
>
>> So, approximately forever ago I saw a presentation given by Damian, in
>> which he used some presentation thingy that ran in a regular TTY and
>> simulated typing input and obtaining output – typos included for free,
>> but without the risk of actually typing yourself during a
>> presentation.  (IIRC, it actually waited for a keypress to simulate
>> each bit of the output, for extra verisimilitude.)
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/IO-Prompter-0.001001/lib/IO/Prompter.pm#Simulating_input
>
> The trick is to put a regular:
>    use IO::Prompter;

Ah!  Thank you very much.

Daniel
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