director.el: Simulate Emacs user sessions. For end-to-end testing, hands-free screencast recording, probably more

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  • emacs-director

    Script Emacs sessions for automated screencasts and end-to-end tests

    I went as far as taking the snapshots when running in screen (hence the director-capture-screen utility) but haven't yet written a runner that does the comparison.

  • frameshot

    Take screenshots of a frame

    Might be nice to use my frameshot, which takes screenshots of a frame, but more importantly in this context can be used to consistently setup a frame fro screenshot/screencast shot.

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