That's cool! I was thinking of doing something similar a few weeks ago. I settled on using tools I knew well to just achieve what I needed quickly. I use tmux a

That's cool! I was thinking of doing something similar a few weeks ago. I settled on using tools I knew well to just achieve what I needed quickly. I use tmux and emacs. I run a tmux session with a window which has a top and bottom pane. Top pane shows a shell, and bottom pane shows emacs. Thanks to tmux, I can send keystrokes to a different pane. With emacs, I tell tmux to send the current line of characters to the top pane. In the emacs session, I have open a help.org file, where I organize some commands. For some reason, this worked with tmux 2.1 but not with tmux 2.3: (defun send-command-to-cli () (interactive) (let ((current 0) (the-command "") (start 0) (end 0)) (setq current (point)) (org-beginning-of-line) (setq start (point)) (org-end-of-line) (setq end (point)) (goto-char current) (setq the-command (concat "tmux send-keys -t top ' " (buffer-substring start end) " ' ; tmux send-keys -t top C-a ; tmux send-keys -t top '#'; tmux select-pane -t top; " )) (message the-command) (shell-command the-command) ))