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Option to display command names in Screencast mode #126713

@PEZ

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@PEZ

When recording screencasts with VS Code the Screencast mode is invaluable! However, since it is built in to VS Code it has more information available than a system level keyboard caster has. Such as

  1. the command names triggered
  2. the knowledge about the full shortcut chords
  3. information about what the keybindings for the command is on other platforms than the one used for recording the screencast

If VS Code could display this information during Screencast mode many recordings would make much more sense, and also automatically make more sense for users of a different OS.

The overlay would look something like so:

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I've made a small proof of concept hack trying to relay this idea. Attaching a recording when I demonstrate some Calva features. The PoC so far lacks the ”keybindings on other platforms” information, but hopefully you can imagine that.

Screencast.mode.w.command.names.mov

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