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looks like a nightmare

For Unix clones everywhere there's the tried and tested Plan9 Plumber that uses Regular Expression Matching to perform any action you desire

http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man4/plumber.html

For the example rules see the base set

http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/plumb/basic

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Why do you think it looks like a nightmare?

It's liek writing a shell script for every library, except now you're stuck typing commands so you need to carry it with you.

Plus I don't like TAB completion. If you can't remember where everything is maybe you should organise it better instead of drawing more maps.

Yes, lightning will be a dependency if you use it just as plumb would be if you used it.

It's strange that lightning looks like a nightmare and then you offer plumb, where its rules are 4+ lines long while lightning's are one-liners.

I'm aware that they both have dependencies Plumb still looks miles more attractive. % plumb /path/to/file.c:21 will open file.c at line 21 right clicking in Acme will do it automatically, I can feel the win from here

It's not so much remembering, it's typing it all out (for me at least). Having RSI, reducing any amount of typing is a godsend. However, my first impression of lightning is similar.

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