[dankco]

Thanks, d5ve! I will check out your REPL approach, that sounds interesting.

Fortunately, for textnote I only have to shell out once to open the file. I will try hard to keep it that way, otherwise I agree with you and others that bash might be the more appropriate tool. Then again, there is functionality included that would be much more difficult to accomplish in bash (templating, archiving, configuration).

Thanks again for your comments and feedback!