onthefly 1.0.6

Type 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 on your keyboard.

Great for live coding presentations.

Features

• Unicode support
• Works with any text editor (in fact, with any program)

Installation

Install and update using pip:

$ python -m pip install onthefly

Usage

Identify your keyboard's device path with the command line tool evemu-record:

> sudo evemu-record

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 (a Logitech K330) has the device path /dev/input/event7.

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

   $ onthefly --keyboard="/dev/input/event7" /path/to/file

Note that onthefly prompts for the root password 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 invocations:

   $ onthefly /path/to/file

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

License

• Free software: MIT license

Credits

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