Nice find.  Too bad it only works if you have javascript enabled.

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Craig DeForest
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Neat stuff, thanks!
>
> On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:52 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone -
>
> In some of my Perl blog reading, I came across an interesting technology
> called showterm. This is a wonderful hack on top of the "script" UNIX/Linux
> executable, which I had never heard of before. Once installed, the basic
> usage steps are:
>
> 1) type "showterm"
> 2) do whatever you want on the terminal; for example, type "pdl" and start
> an interactive shell
> 3) type "exit" from the terminal when you're done
>
> showterm will then upload the results of "script" to a cloud server that can
> render everything in a browser using javascript.
>
> The point of this is not that it does 1 million cool things. It does one
> thing extraordinarily well. Here's a simple example showing the most basic
> of PDL shell demos: http://showterm.io/d8db6184b52863423e37d
>
> Now, if somebody has a question, it is probably best to copy-and-paste a
> shell session into the email. However, now we can both copy and paste the
> shell session *and* give a link to replay it!
>
> David
>
> --
>  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
>   Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
>   by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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