--- title: "Editing an asciinema cast file with aider" description: "The user needs to make some tedious edits to the escape sequences in an `asciinema` screencast file." type: skill canonical_url: https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/asciinema source: "Claudary" difficulty: intermediate author: "Claude Code Knowledge Pack" date: 2026-07-10T11:08:00.169Z license: CC-BY-4.0 attribution: "Editing an asciinema cast file with aider — Claudary (https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/asciinema)" --- # Editing an asciinema cast file with aider The user needs to make some tedious edits to the escape sequences in an `asciinema` screencast file. ## Overview --- parent: Example chat transcripts --- # Editing an asciinema cast file with aider The user needs to make some tedious edits to the escape sequences in an `asciinema` screencast file.
> $ aider hello.cast > Added hello.cast to the chat #### when the "hello.py> " prompt is displayed, it's including some escape codes to add a few blank lines below the prompt and then bringing the cursor back up. remove all that. just show the prompt followed by a space and leave the cursor showing right after that. ```python hello.cast <<<<<<< ORIGINAL [19.534013, "o", "\\u001b[?2004h\\u001b[?1l\\u001b[?25l\\u001b[0m\\u001b[?7l\\u001b[0m\\u001b[J\\u001b[0;38;5;28mhello.py> \\u001b[0m\\r\\r\\n\\r\\r\\n\\r\\r\\n\\u001b[0;38;5;28m \\r\\u001b[64C \\r\\u001b[3A\\u001b[10C\\u001b[?7h\\u001b[0m\\u001b[?12l\\u001b[?25h"] ======= [19.534013, "o", "\\u001b[?2004h\\u001b[?1l\\u001b[?25l\\u001b[0m\\u001b[?7l\\u001b[0m\\u001b[J\\u001b[0;38;5;28mhello.py> \\u001b[0m\\u001b[?7h\\u001b[0m\\u001b[?12l\\u001b[?25h"] >>>>>>> UPDATED ``` > Applied edit to hello.cast > Commit a3fa4d2 aider: Removed escape codes to display prompt and cursor correctly.
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