M-x screenshot even exists, and there are the elpa packages emacs-gif-screencast and keycast. It's so easy to do from right inside of emacs that there really is

M-x screenshot even exists, and there are the elpa packages emacs-gif-screencast and keycast. It's so easy to do from right inside of emacs that there really isn't a good excuse. Less than stellar documentation is a pet peeve of mine and I try to submit small improvements to the documentation for the packages I use most often. I'd encourage everyone else that hates bad documentation to do the same. It's one of the easiest and most impactful ways to contribute to open source, and often something that the maintainers have difficulty doing simply because they can never view their project in the way a new user would.