onthefly 1.0.3

Code like a god on-the-fly

onthefly

onthefly allows you to emulate typing the contents of an input file by wildly pressing the asdf jkl; keys of your keyboard. Great for live coding presentations.

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Features

• Unicode support

• Works with any text editor

Installation

Install and update at system level using pip:

$ sudo python -m pip install onthefly

Usage

Identify your keyboard with evtest:

$ sudo python -m evdev.evtest

ID  Device               Name                                 ...
------------------------------------------------------------- ...
0   /dev/input/event0    Lid Switch                           ...
1   /dev/input/event1    Power Button                         ...
2   /dev/input/event2    Sleep Button                         ...
3   /dev/input/event3    Power Button                         ...
4   /dev/input/event4    AT Translated Set 2 keyboard         ...
5   /dev/input/event5    Video Bus                            ...
6   /dev/input/event6    Logitech M215 2nd Gen                ...
7   /dev/input/event7    Logitech K330                        ...
8   /dev/input/event8    SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad           ...
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From this output, we see that my keyboard is identified with the name Logitech K330.

Pass the name of your keyboard as an argument to the keyboard option when invoking onthefly for the first time.

$ sudo onthefly --keyboard="Logitech K330" /path/to/file

Note that onthefly needs to be run with sudo privileges in order to have access to the keyboard events:

The keyboard name is remembered so you do not have to re-enter it in future invokations:

$ sudo onthefly /path/to/file

Type the Pause/Break key to quit the program at any moment. Supports using the Backspace key to erase characters without going out of sync with respect to the input file.

License

• Free software: MIT license

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.3.0 (2020-05-19)

• First release on PyPI.