I have often thought it would be fun to have a Smalltalk like interaction screen, where you could leave snippets of code lying around and a “do it” menu item.

I have often thought it would be fun to have a Smalltalk like interaction screen, where you could leave snippets of code lying around and a “do it” menu item. Kind of like how most of the SQL systems like dBeaver work. I have a scratchpad of SQL in a file I use for fiddly jobs, and a file like that for shell commands would be good if it had all the flags for awk or grep or whatever handy. Would also be cool for the AWS and azure cli tools. I had something half working as an old VisualWorks experiment that implemented an AWS service on one side and a scratchpad in the middle but I feel like it might be a very cool vscode extension instead.