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Vroom - Slide Shows in Vim
> mkdir MySlides # Make a Directory for Your Slides
> cd MySlides # Go In There
> vroom -new # Create Example Slides File
> vim slides.vroom # Edit the File and Add Your Own Slides
> vroom --vroom # Show Your Slides
> vroom --html # Publish Your Slides as HTML
Ever given a Slide Show and needed to switch over to Vim?
Now you don't ever have to switch again. You're already there.
Vroom lets you create your slides in a single file using a Wiki-like style, much like Spork and Sporx do. The difference is that your slides don't compile to HTML or JavaScript or XUL. They get turned into a set of files that begin with '0', like '03' or '07c' or '05b.pl'.
The slides are named in alphabetic order. That means you can bring them
all into a Vim session with the command: vim 0*. vroom --vroom
does exactly that.
You can do things like advance to the next slide with the spacebar.
Vroom creates a file called ./.vimrc with helpful key mappings for
navigating a slideshow. See KEY MAPPINGS below.
Please note that you will need the following line in your
$HOME/.vimrc file in order to pick up the local .vimrc file.
set exrc
Vroom takes advantage of Vim's syntax highlighting. It also lets you run slides that contain code.
Since Vim is an editor, you can change your slides during the show.
Vroom has a few command line options:
Write an example slides.vroom file. This example contains all the
config options and also examples of all the Vroom syntax features.
Compile (create) the slides files from the input file and start vim show.
Just compile the slides.
Publish the slides to HTML, with embedded JavaScript to navigate with
the spacebar and backspace keys. Created in the html/ subdirectory.
Publish the slides to plain text. This action uses all the text slides in
their unsplit form. Created in the text/ subdirectory.
Clean up all the compiled output files.
Creates a shell script in the current directory, that is intended to publish your slides to the special GitHub branch called gh-pages. See GITHUB NOTES below.
This command does NOT run the script. It merely creates it for you. It is up to you to review the script and run it (if it makes sense on your system).
The skip option takes a number as its input and skips that number of files during compilation. This is useful when you are polishing your slides and are finished with the first 50. You can say:
vroom --vroom --skip=50
and it will start on slide #51.
This option lets you specify an alternate input file name, instead of the
default one, slides.vroom.
Here is an example slides.vroom file:
---- config
# These are YAML settings for Vroom
title: My Spiffy Slideshow
height: 84
width: 20
# skip: 12 # Skip 12 slides. Useful when making slides.
---- center
My Presentation
by Ingy
----
== Stuff I care about:
* Foo
+* Bar
+* Baz
---- perl,i10
# Perl code indented 10 spaces
use Vroom;
print "Hello World";
---- center
THE END
A line that starts with '==' is a header line. It will be centered.
Lines that begin with a '+' cause vroom to split the slide there, causing an animation effect.
Each slide can have one or more configuration options. Options are a comma separated list that follow the '----' header for a slide. Like this:
---- config
---- center
---- perl,i20
---- include file-name
---- replace
---- skip
The slide is really a yaml configuration. It will not be displayed in the presentation, but will tell vroom what to do from that point forward.
Usually, a config slide is the first thing in your input file, but
you can use more than one config slide.
Center the contents of the slide.
'i' followed by a number means to indent the contents by the number of characters.
'i' followed by a negative number means to strip that number of leading characters from the contents of the slide. This can be useful if you need to have characters special to Vroom at the beginning of your lines, for example if the contents of your slide is unified diff output.
Specifies that the slide is one of those syntaxen, and that the appropriate file extension will be used, thus causing vim to syntax highlight the slide.
Replace the line with the contents of the specified file. Useful to include long files that would make your slides file unruly.
With the replace option, the '+' animations in the slide cause the
content to replace the previous partial slide, rather than append to it.
Ignore the following slide completely.
You can specify the following configuration options in a config slide:
The title of your presentation.
The number of lines in the terminal you plan to use when presenting the show. Used for centering the content.
The number of columns in the terminal you plan to use when presenting the show. Used for centering the content.
All slides will be indented by this number of spaces by default.
Auto detect slides that have lists in them, and indent them by the specified number of columns.
You can specify the name of the vim executable to use. If you set this to
gvim special gvim support will be provided.
The following options are available, if your vim option is set to gvim.
fuopt: maxhorz,maxvert
guioptions: egmLtT
guicursor: a:blinkon0-ver25-Cursor
guifont: Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h18
These are all documented by gvim's help system. Please see that for more information.
These are the standard key mappings specified in the local .vimrc.
Advance one slide.
Go back one slide.
Bring up the help screen.
If the current slide is declared Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Haskell or JavaScript, then run it accordingly.
Quit Vroom.
Since these vim options apply while editing the slides.vroom file
(yes, beware), you can use this shortcut to launch Vroom on the current
contents whilst writing your slides.
Edit the file that the cursor is on the filename of.
You can put file path names in your slides, and then easily bring them up during your presentation.
On a Mac, run the OS X open command on the argument that your cursor is on.
For instance, if you want to display an image, you could put the file path of the image in your slide, then use OO to launch it.
You can create a file called .vroom/vimrc in your home directory. If
vroom sees this file, it will append it onto every local .vimrc file
it creates.
Use this file to specify your own custom vim settings for all your vroom presentations.
You can also create a file called .vroom/gvimrc for gvim overrides,
if you are using gvim.
If you have a Mac, you really should try using MacVim for Vroom slide shows. You can run it in fullscreen mode, and it looks kinda professional.
To do this, set the vim option in your config section:
vim: gvim
NOTE: On my Mac, I have gvim symlinked to mvim, which is a smart startup script that ships with MacVim. Ping me, if you have questions about this setup.
I(ngy) put all my public talks on github. I think it is an excellent way to publish your slides and give people a url to review them. Here are the things I do to make this work well:
1) I create a repository for every presentation I give. The name of
the repo is of the form <topic>-<event/time>-talk. You can go tohttp://github.com/ingydotnet/ and look for the repos ending
with -talk.
2) GitHub has a feature called gh-pages that you can use to create a website for each github repo. I use this feature to publish the html output of my talk. I do something like this:
vroom --html
mv html /tmp
git branch gh-pages
git checkout gh-pages
rm -r *.html
mv /tmp/html/* .
rmdir /tmp/html
git add .
git commit -m 'Publish my slides'
git push origin gh-pages
git checkout master
2B) Vroom comes with a --ghpublish option. If you run:
> vroom -ghpublish
it will generate a script called ghpublish that contains commands like the
ones above, to publish your slides to a gh-pages branch.
3) If my repo is called vroom-yapcna2009-talk, then after I publish
the talk to the gh-pages branch, it will be available ashttp://ingydotnet.github.com/vroom-yapcna2009-talk.
I then link this url fromhttp://github.com/ingydotnet/vroom-yapcna2009-talk as the Homepage
url.
You can see an example of a talk published to HTML and posted via gh-pages at http://ingydotnet.github.com/vroom-pm/.
Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2008, 2009. Ingy döt Net.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
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package Vroom; use 5.006001; use Vroom::OO -base; our $VERSION = '0.25'; use IO::All; use YAML::XS; use Getopt::Long; use File::HomeDir; use Cwd; use Carp; has input => 'slides.vroom'; has stream => ''; has ext => ''; has help => 0; has clean => 0; has compile => 0; has sample => 0; has run => 0; has html => 0; has text => 0; has ghpublish => 0; has start => 0; has digits => 0; has skip => 0; has config => { title => 'Untitled Presentation', height => 24, width => 80, list_indent => 10, skip => 0, vim => 'vim', vimrc => '', gvimrc => '', }; sub usage { return <<'...'; Usage: vroom [options] -new - Create a sample 'slides.vroom' file -vroom - Start slideshow -compile - Generate slides -html - Publish slides as HTML -text - Publish slides as plain text -skip=# - Skip # of slides -input=name - Specify an input file name -clean - Delete generated files -help - Get help! ... } sub vroom { my $self = ref($_[0]) ? shift : (shift)->new; $self->getOptions; if ($self->sample) { $self->sampleSlides; } elsif ($self->run) { $self->runSlide; } elsif ($self->clean) { $self->cleanAll; } elsif ($self->compile) { $self->makeSlides; } elsif ($self->start) { $self->makeSlides; $self->startUp; } elsif ($self->html) { $self->makeHTML; } elsif ($self->text) { $self->makeText; } elsif ($self->ghpublish) { $self->makePublisher; } elsif ($self->help) { warn $self->usage; } else { warn $self->usage; } } sub getOptions { my $self = shift; die <<'...' if cwd eq File::HomeDir->my_home; Don't run vroom in your home directory. Create a new directory for your slides and run vroom from there. ... GetOptions( "help" => \$self->{help}, "new" => \$self->{sample}, "clean" => \$self->{clean}, "compile" => \$self->{compile}, "run" => \$self->{run}, "html" => \$self->{html}, "text" => \$self->{text}, "ghpublish" => \$self->{ghpublish}, "input=s" => \$self->{input}, "vroom" => \$self->{start}, "skip=i" => \$self->{skip}, ) or die $self->usage; do { delete $self->{$_} unless defined $self->{$_} } for qw(clean compile input vroom); } sub cleanUp { my $self = shift; unlink(glob "0*"); unlink('.help'); unlink('.vimrc'); unlink('.gvimrc'); unlink('run.slide'); } sub cleanAll { my $self = shift; $self->cleanUp; io->dir('html')->rmtree; io->dir('text')->rmtree; } sub runSlide { my $self = shift; my $slide = $ARGV[0]; if ($slide =~ /\.pl$/) { exec "clear; $^X $slide"; } $self->trim_slide; if ($slide =~ /\.py$/) { exec "clear; python run.slide"; } elsif ($slide =~ /\.rb$/) { exec "clear; ruby run.slide"; } elsif ($slide =~ /\.php$/) { exec "clear; php run.slide"; } elsif ($slide =~ /\.js$/) { exec "clear; js run.slide"; } elsif ($slide =~ /\.hs$/) { exec "clear; runghc run.slide"; } elsif ($slide =~ /\.yaml$/) { exec "clear; $^X -MYAML::XS -MData::Dumper -e '\$Data::Dumper::Terse = 1; \$Data::Dumper::Indent = 1; print Dumper YAML::XS::LoadFile(shift)' run.slide"; } } sub trim_slide { my $self = shift; my $slide = $ARGV[0]; my $text < io($slide); $text =~ s/^\s*\n//; $text =~ s/\n\s*$/\n/; while ($text !~ /^\S/m) { $text =~ s/^ //mg; } $text > io('run.slide'); } sub makeSlides { my $self = shift; $self->cleanUp; $self->getInput; $self->buildSlides; $self->writeVimrc; $self->writeHelp; } sub makeText { my $self = shift; $self->cleanAll; $self->makeSlides; io('text')->mkdir; my @slides = glob('0*'); for my $slide (@slides) { next unless $slide =~ /^(\d+)(\.\S+)?$/; my $num = $1; my $ext = $2 || ''; my $text = io(-e "${num}z$ext" ? "${num}z$ext" : "$num$ext")->all(); io("text/$slide")->print($text); } eval { system("cp .vimrc text"); }; $self->cleanUp; } sub makeHTML { my $self = shift; require Template::Toolkit::Simple; $self->cleanAll; $self->makeSlides; io('html')->mkdir; my @slides = glob('0*'); for (my $i = 0; $i < @slides; $i++) { my $slide = $slides[$i]; my $prev = ($i > 0) ? $slides[$i - 1] : ''; my $next = ($i + 1 < @slides) ? $slides[$i + 1] : ''; my $text = io($slide)->all; my $title = $text; $text = Template::Toolkit::Simple->new()->render( $self->slideTemplate, { title => "$slide", prev => $prev, next => $next, content => $text, } ); io("html/$slide.html")->print($text); } my $index = []; for (my $i = 0; $i < @slides; $i++) { my $slide = $slides[$i]; next if $slide =~ /^\d+[a-z]/; my $title = io($slide)->all; $title =~ s/.*?((?-s:\S.*)).*/$1/s; push @$index, [$slide, $title]; } io("html/index.html")->print( Template::Toolkit::Simple->new()->render( $self->indexTemplate, { config => $self->config, index => $index, } ) ); $self->cleanUp; } sub indexTemplate { \ <<'...' <html> <head> <title>[% config.title | html %]</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <script> function navigate(e) { var keynum = (window.event) // IE ? e.keyCode : e.which; if (keynum == 13 || keynum == 32) { window.location = "001.html"; return false; } return true; } </script> <style> body { font-family: sans-serif; } h4 { color: #888; } </style> </head> <body> <h4>Use SPACEBAR to peruse the slides or click one to start...<h4> <h1>[% config.title | html %]</h1> <ul> [% FOR entry = index -%] [% slide = entry.shift() -%] [% title = entry.shift() -%] <li><a href="[% slide %].html">[% title | html %]</a></li> [% END -%] </ul> <p>This presentation was generated by <a href="http://ingydotnet.github.com/vroom-pm">Vroom</a>. Use <SPACE> key to go forward and <BACKSPACE> to go backwards. </p> </body> ... } sub slideTemplate { \ <<'...' <html> <head> <title>[% title | html %]</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <script> function navigate(e) { var keynum = (window.event) // IE ? e.keyCode : e.which; if (keynum == 8) { [% IF prev -%] window.location = "[% prev %]" + ".html"; [% END -%] return false; } [% IF next -%] if (keynum == 13 || keynum == 32) { window.location = "[% next %]" + ".html"; return false; } [% END -%] if (keynum == 73 || keynum == 105) { window.location = "index.html"; return false; } return true; } </script> </head> <body onkeypress="return navigate(event)"> <pre> [%- content | html -%] </pre> </body> ... } sub getInput { my $self = shift; my @stream = io($self->input)->slurp or croak "No input provided. Make a file called 'slides.vroom'"; my $stream = join '', map { /^----\s+include\s+(\S+)/ ? scalar(io($1)->all) : $_ } @stream; $self->stream($stream); } sub buildSlides { my $self = shift; my @split = split /^(----\ *.*)\n/m, $self->stream; shift @split; @split = grep length, @split; push @split, '----' if $split[0] =~ /\n/; my (@raw_configs, @raw_slides); while (@split) { my ($config, $slide) = splice(@split, 0, 2); $config =~ s/^----\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/; push @raw_configs, $config; push @raw_slides, $slide; } $self->{digits} = int(log(@raw_slides)/log(10)) + 2; my $number = 0; for my $raw_slide (@raw_slides) { my $config = $self->parseSlideConfig(shift @raw_configs); next if $config->{skip}; $raw_slide = $self->applyOptions($raw_slide, $config) or next; $number++; if ($self->config->{skip} or $self->skip) { $self->config->{skip}-- if $self->config->{skip}; $self->{skip}-- if $self->{skip}; next; } $raw_slide = $self->padVertical($raw_slide); my @slides; my $slide = ''; for (split /^\+/m, $raw_slide) { $slide = '' if $config->{replace}; $slide .= $_; $slide = $self->padVertical($slide) if $config->{replace}; push @slides, $slide; } my $base_name = $self->formatNumber($number); my $suffix = 'a'; for (my $i = 1; $i <= @slides; $i++) { my $slide = $self->padFullScreen($slides[$i - 1]); chomp $slide; $slide .= "\n"; if ($slide =~ s/^\ *!(.*\n)//m) { $slide .= $1; } # this option can't be applied ahead of time if ($config->{undent}) { my $undent = $config->{undent}; $slide =~ s/^.{$undent}//gm; } $slide =~ s{^\ *==\ +(.*?)\ *$} {' ' x (($self->config->{width} - length($1)) / 2) . $1}gem; my $suf = $suffix++; $suf = $suf eq 'a' ? '' : $i == @slides ? 'z' : $suf; io("$base_name$suf" . $self->ext)->print($slide); } } } sub formatNumber { my $self = shift; my $number = shift; my $digits = $self->digits; return sprintf "%0${digits}d", $number; } my $types = { # add pl6 and py3 perl => 'pl', pl => 'pl', pm => 'pm', ruby => 'rb', rb => 'rb', python => 'py', py => 'py', haskell => 'hs', hs => 'hs', javascript => 'js', js => 'js', actionscript => 'as', as => 'as', shell => 'sh', sh => 'sh', php => 'php', java => 'java', yaml => 'yaml', xml => 'xml', json => 'json', html => 'html', make => 'make', diff => 'diff', conf => 'conf', }; sub parseSlideConfig { my $self = shift; my $string = shift; my $config = {}; my $type_list = join '|', keys %$types; for my $option (split /\s*,\s*/, $string) { $config->{$option} = 1 if $option =~ /^cd/; $config->{$1} = 1 if $option =~ /^(config|skip|center|replace|$type_list)$/; $config->{indent} = $1 if $option =~ /i(\d+)/; $config->{undent} = $1 if $option =~ /i-(\d+)/; } return $config; } sub applyOptions { my $self = shift; my ($slide, $config) = @_; $config = { %{$self->config}, %$config, }; if ($config->{config}) { $config = { %{$self->config}, %{(YAML::XS::Load($slide))}, }; $self->config($config); return ''; } if ($config->{center}) { $slide =~ s{^(\+?)\ *(.*?)\ *$} {$1 . ' ' x (($self->config->{width} - length($2)) / 2) . $2}gem; $slide =~ s{^\s*$}{}gm; } elsif (defined $config->{indent}) { my $indent = $config->{indent}; $slide =~ s{^(\+?)}{$1 . ' ' x $indent}gem; } elsif ($slide =~ /^\+?\*/m) { my $indent = $config->{list_indent}; $slide =~ s{^(\+?)}{$1 . ' ' x $indent}gem; } my $ext = ''; for my $key (keys %$config) { if (my $e = $types->{$key}) { $ext = ".$e"; last; } elsif ($key =~ s/^cd//) { if (my $e = $types->{$key}) { $ext = ".cd.$e"; last; } } } $self->ext($ext); return $slide; } sub padVertical { my $self = shift; my $slide = shift; $slide =~ s/\A\s*\n//; $slide =~ s/\n\s*\z//; my @lines = split /\n/, $slide; my $lines = @lines; my $before = int(($self->config->{height} - $lines) / 2) - 1; return "\n" x $before . $slide; } sub padFullScreen { my $self = shift; my $slide = shift; chomp $slide; my @lines = split /\n/, $slide; my $lines = @lines; my $after = $self->config->{height} - $lines + 1; return $slide . "\n" x $after; } sub writeVimrc { my $self = shift; my $home_vimrc = File::HomeDir->my_home . "/.vroom/vimrc"; my $home_vimrc_content = -e $home_vimrc ? io($home_vimrc)->all : ''; die <<'...' The .vimrc in your current directory does not look like vroom created it. If you are sure it can be overwritten, please delete it yourself this one time, and rerun vroom. You should not get this message again. ... if -e '.vimrc' and io('.vimrc')->getline !~ /Vroom-\d\.\d\d/; my $title = "%-20f " . $self->config->{title}; $title =~ s/\s/\\ /g; io(".vimrc")->print(<<"..."); " This .vimrc file was created by Vroom-$VERSION map <SPACE> :n<CR>:<CR>gg map <BACKSPACE> :N<CR>:<CR>gg map R :!vroom -run %<CR> map RR :!vroom -run %<CR> map VV :!vroom -vroom<CR> map QQ :q!<CR> map OO :!open <cWORD><CR><CR> map EE :e <cWORD><CR> map !! G:!open <cWORD><CR><CR> map ?? :e .help<CR> set laststatus=2 set statusline=$title " Overrides from $home_vimrc $home_vimrc_content " Values from slides.vroom config section. (under 'vimrc') ${\ $self->config->{vimrc}} ... if ($self->config->{vim} =~ /\bgvim\b/) { my $home_gvimrc = File::HomeDir->my_home . "/.vroom/gvimrc"; my $home_gvimrc_content = -e $home_gvimrc ? io($home_gvimrc)->all : ''; io(".gvimrc")->print(<<"..."); " Values from slides.vroom config section. (under 'gvimrc') ${\ $self->config->{gvimrc}} " Overrides from $home_gvimrc $home_gvimrc_content ... } } sub writeHelp { my $self = shift; io('.help')->print(<<'...'); <SPACE> Advance <BACKSPACE> Go back ?? Help QQ Quit Vroom RR Run slide as a program VV vroom --vroom EE Edit file under cursor OO Open file under cursor (Mac OS X) (Press SPACE to leave Help screen and continue) ... } sub startUp { my $self = shift; my $vim = $self->config->{vim}; exec "$vim 0*"; } sub sampleSlides { my $self = shift; my $file = $self->input; die <<"..." if -e $file; '$file' already exists. If you really want to generate a new template slides file, please delete or move this one. ... io($file)->print(<<'...'); # This is a sample Vroom input file. It should help you get started. # # Edit this file with your content. Then run `vroom --vroom` to start # the show! # # See `perldoc Vroom` for complete details. # ---- config # Basic config options. title: Vroom! indent: 5 height: 18 width: 69 skip: 0 # The following options are for Gvim usage. # vim: gvim # gvimrc: | # set fuopt=maxhorz,maxvert # set guioptions=egmLtT # set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h18 # set guicursor=a:blinkon0-ver25-Cursor # colorscheme default ---- center Vroom! by Ingy döt Net (hint: press the spacebar) ---- == Slideshows in Vim * Hate using PowerPoint or HTML Slides for Talks? +* Use Vroom! +* You can write you slides in Vim... * ...and present them in Vim! ---- == Getting Started * Write a file called 'slides.vroom'. * Do this in a new directory. * Run 'vroom --vroom'. * Voilà ! ---- == Navigation * Hit <SPACE> to move forward. * Hit <BACKSPACE> to go backwards. * Hit 'Q' to quit. ---- perl,i4 # This is some Perl code. # Notice the syntax highlighting. # Run it with the <RR> vim command. for my $word (qw(Vroom totally rocks!)) { print "$word\n"; } ---- == Get Vroom! * http://search.cpan.org/dist/Vroom/ * http://github.com/ingydotnet/vroom-pm/ ---- == Vroom as HTML * http://ingydotnet.github.com/vroom-pm/ ---- == The End ... print "'$file' created.\n"; } sub makePublisher { my $self = shift; my $input = $self->input; die "Error: This doesn't look like a Vroom directory.\n" unless -f $input; die "Error: This doesn't look like a git repository.\n" unless -d '.git'; die "Error: No writeable /tmp directory on this system.\n" unless -d '/tmp' and -w '/tmp'; die "Error: There is no git branch called 'gh-pages'.\n" . "Perhaps you should run `git branch gh-pages` first.\n" unless `git branch` =~ /\bgh-pages\b/; io('ghpublish')->print(<<'...'); #!/bin/sh # This script is experimental. Please understand it before you run it on # your system. Just because it works for Ingy, doesn't mean it will work # for you. if [ -e "/tmp/html" ]; then echo "Error: /tmp/html already exists. Perhaps remove it." exit 13 fi # Create HTML slides. vroom --html || exit 1 # Move the html directory to /tmp mv html /tmp || exit 1 # Stash any local stuff that isn't committed. git stash || exit 1 # Switch to your gh-pages branch. (That you already created. Right?) git checkout gh-pages || exit 1 # Remove all the html files from the gh-pages branch. rm -f *.html || exit 1 # Move the HTML slides in here. mv /tmp/html/* . || exit 1 # Remove the html directory from /tmp rmdir /tmp/html || exit 1 # Add any new files to git. git add 0* index.html || exit 1 # Commit your changes. git commit -am 'Publish my slides' || exit 1 # Push them to GitHub. git push origin gh-pages || exit 1 # Switch back to the master branch. git checkout master || exit 1 # Get your uncommitted changes back. git stash pop || exit 1 # Voilà ! (hopefully) ... chmod 0755, 'ghpublish'; print <<'...'; Created the shell script called 'ghpublish'. This script is somewhat experimental, so please read the code to make sure it makes sense on your system. If it makes sense to you, run it. (at your own risk :) ... }