> let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following

> let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following the UNIX philosophy I think that's how the editors in Plan 9 support extensions/plugins/scripting by exposing parts of the editor on the filesystem. Something with FUSE might do the trick, though mounts are always tricky. Kakoune supports JSON RPC over a fifo, for example: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC#input-keys--output-info_show https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC#input-keys--o...