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I call this idea If you can see it you can use it and right click use.

So if you see a filename on the CLI, you can right click on the file name and interact with the file with a GUI.

Or you could hover over a <pre> tag in the browser of some dot syntax or table and right click and click Use. It would run various heuristics over the data to work out what the data is and then import it to the right program.



Yes!! Here's a link of an experiment I did some time ago to do just what you're describing: https://twitter.com/juancampa/status/1033495489637961729?s=1...


Like the Acme or Wily editors?


or the lisp machines


I like your thinking!




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