Yor are right, EDX-0, pico-init has become large (it's no longer "pico"). I see two major scenarios where it fits:

• as pidN service controller/supervisor if the use case is strong enough (e.g. for a Rasperry Pi gadget device) or

• as experimental or test kit for processes control: as soon as you know what you want and need you would copy&paste idea and/or code to your project.

Just yesterday I got an idea for a possible scenario 2 .

Of course, "no one" needs another editor and this is also not what the apps do. E.g., the console notes app is a large GNU awk script that uses vi (or nano or your-editor) for editing. So, what is the script doing?

- Years ago I decided to put my notes where they belong - into the project directories. To keep the directories uncluttered, all notes go into the file Notes.md and they begin with a `###` markdown header. So the app's first function is to know the format and present the notes as directory.

- Displaying notes inserts ANSI sequences to color markdown markup and uses `less -XRF` for output.

- Then the app understands where to look when I enter `Lin:` (opens Linux.md from the "wiki" directory) or "micro:" (opens Notes.md from micro-boot directory).

- The app knows where to find all files when I run a search through all of my notes (`//systemd +boot`)

- Then the app can open links in a console (or GUI) browser, start a shell, open the editor or duplicate itself in a new xterm, tmux or screen window.

- It also knows how to open files on a gvfs directory.

So while it's true, that there are plenty of good text editors, there is so much more around organising and finding notes and this is what the apps really do.

Hello EDX-0, I like your shell approach and the idea of being agnostic of window system. init-system or whatever is there. (I'm using a similar thing for my own stuff on Raspberry Pi.) I have a small suggestion just in case there are distro maintainers with aversion of too much shell commands:

get_shed_cgroup_2() {
  awk '
        BEGIN {
                pid = ARGV[1];
                cmd = "ps ax -o pid,cgroup,cmd=CMD ";
                while (cmd | getline > 0) {
                        if ($0 ~ /grep/  ||  $0 !~ /shed/)
                                continue;
                        else if ($1 != pid)
                                continue;

                        sub(/^.*::\//, "", $2);
                        print $2;
                        }
                }' "$shed_pid"
        }

shed_pid=$$
get_shed_cgroup
get_shed_cgroup_2