Interactive capture

When capturing editor operations such as Vim or interactive work in a REPL, interactive capture lets you take screenshots or recordings at any timing.

Starting a session

Run the interactive command.

Terminal

# Start interactive mode with the default shell
console2svg interactive
# Launch a specific command directly
# console2svg interactive -- vim main.rs

Once the session starts, you can type and operate it just like a normal terminal.

Shortcut keys

During the session, you can capture with the following keys.

Key	Action
F9	Video capture (start / stop)
F10	Still-image capture
F12	Pause during video recording

Output destination

By default, output uses the format output_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSSsss.svg. You can specify any file name with the -o option (a timestamp is appended automatically).

Terminal

console2svg interactive -o my_output.svg
# -> my_output_20260101_123456789.svg

Tip

During interactive execution, timestamps are automatically appended even to user-specified file names to prioritize avoiding duplicate file names when outputting multiple times.

Automatic conversion is also performed when you specify an extension.

Terminal

console2svg interactive -o my_result.mp4
# -> my_result_20260101_123456789.mp4

Note

If you specify an extension for a video format, still-image capture with the F10 key is disabled.

Combining style options

As with capture mode, you can specify options such as themes and window styles.

Terminal

console2svg interactive -d macos-pc -t github-dark