Wanting to demonstrate the power of emacs M-x butterfly, I needed to make the sort of gif-screen-capture I’ve seen others put to good work. Extra snag: I use emacs itself for a window manager, so the first online recommendation of Peek didn’t work. Instead I found the open-source byzanz to record; however, it requires knowing the screen-portion and length of the gif beforehand. Other than that, though, it worked great even on my exwm (GUI-resistant) system.

Emacs isn’t just for programmers; the majority of what I do in emacs is non-programming. This video shows just a few of my most common Emacs tasks. This screencast was made using RecordMyDesktop.