[codetrotter]

I do something similar.

In some of my projects I have little snippets of cli commands in the main README.

When I open the project in JetBrains IDE and I open the README of my project there, I can click on each code block to run it.

This way I can for example start up dependencies like say a little python3 web server to serve static files from one of the subdirs, simply by clicking on it in the readme. Instead of copy-pasting from the readme, and even instead of Ctrl+R in a terminal window and finding the correct commands for a project from history.

It almost reminds me a little bit of Plan9 and their Acme editor, where they were blurring the lines between text and commands. In Acme you can type a piece of text and then middle-button click I think it was to run the text as a command. Having executable blocks of code interspersed in a markdown document feels a little bit like that although in a different, more limited manner.

[codetrotter]

Also to add, for a while in the past before I found that the IDE I use could execute code blocks I made a little program that would take each code block in a markdown document and run them one after the other, and it would look to see if a “text” fence followed right after the code fence. In that case it would write the output of that command into the text fence. If there was no text fence, it would run the command without inserting any of its input into the document.

It was like a super rudimentary Jupyter Notebook system of my own making.

Eventually I switched away from my own run-and-insert system.

[sourishkrout]

This Jupyter notebook-like system you're describing here is basically Runme. It do not yet have an IntelliJ/Jetbrains plugin; however, the Kernel Architecture outside of the headless CLI allows for integration into any IDE or UI.

It's all open source. Please get involved! We'd be happy to have you.