[aquariusDue]

I'd prefer if computing wasn't structured around the idea of applications and the social component preferred the UNIX way of piping data through various small programs till the desired output manifested and then shared recipes instead of "software", but here I am enjoying YouTube on a small device that's completely locked.

But yeah, your vision is the next best thing I like to day dream about sadly.

[dotancohen]

You can still do that with Org files. I would say that grep touches my Org files more often than Emacs does.

I had the same workflow with Markdown files if you prefer the closed source Markdown editors. At the time, I was using VIM for editing and viewing the Markdown files.