My fear with this is that it will be less "bullet proof" than creating a PDF slidedeck. With this I'll have to worry about getting the fontsize correct on the projector, which means I have to worry about getting a terminal set up on whichever computer I may be using for a presentation (hopefully my own, but I can't count on that) and (in the case that it isn't my own) I have to worry about networking too.<p>With a PDF slidedeck I can have the PDF on my computer, on the network, and on a flashdrive, I don't have to worry about presentation software compatibility or installing Gvim+plugins or putty, I don't have to worry about font-size, etc.<p>If I could be absolutely sure that the presentation was going to be given from my computer, then I think this would be great.
Looks cool. I've used something similar called vroom[1] once, and it worked quite well. But as soon as I realised I want to show a live webpage (or an image), I had to switch to a browser, and then it was easier to just switch to a markdown to html presentation tool instead (I picked remark[2] which I would recommend).<p>That said, I think it's important to focus on the core points of the presentation and not get distracted by graphics and layouts. It makes your presentations way better.<p>[1]<a href="http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Vroom-0.23/lib/Vroom.pm" rel="nofollow">http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Vroom-0.23/lib/Vroom.pm</a>
[2]<a href="https://github.com/gnab/remark" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gnab/remark</a>
Related: I also made a vim-based presentation tool, called git-slides [1]. The main difference between Vimdeck and git-slides is that vimdeck generates slides out of a simpler format (Markdown), while git-slides displays one WYSIWYG slide for each commit in your git history.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/gelisam/git-slides" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gelisam/git-slides</a>
Nice work on vimdeck. I like the idea. I ran into a problem while using this gem because it didn't automatically install the required dependencies while installing the vimdeck gem, so I submitted a pull request for the fix.
Looks great, you should totally make a short presentation showing it using <a href="http://shelr.tv/" rel="nofollow">http://shelr.tv/</a> or one of these ttyrec to gif converters.
I don't see myself firing up vim on a projector and doing an entire presentation that way, but this sounds like it could potentially be useful as a tool for explaining things to team members (it's not uncommon to huddle around a text editor anyway). Terminal meets whiteboard.
Related: <a href="https://github.com/fxn/tkn" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fxn/tkn</a> is a terminal-based presentation tool. Slides are written in Ruby, includes a few types of slides and even supports images if you're using iTerm2.
Was doing a little presentation on hacker culture at my office and I used vim instead of ppt. That was part of the things I wanted to say.<p>I didn't use buffers however, I just used a custom page breaks and a search trick like "search and jump ten lines below".
Also checkout <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Pinpoint" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.gnome.org/Pinpoint</a>, I just discovered this from a project manager at work...
Cool project. Was actually thinking about this as I'm currently working on my first ever presentation. Decided to go with reveal.js. Gonna keep an eye on this.