Piping process output to scratch buffer continuously?

[miohtama3]

I have been studying a little bit more how to make Sublime to interact a continuously running web server.

Basically I hope to have a View which acts a special terminal Window

• A new (web server) process is started, running continously. E.g. it is not a batch run
• The output of this process is piped in scratch, read only, Sublime View
• Language / regions are applied on the output
• Plug-in is responsible to cleaning up upper lines of the buffer-like View when it beings to fill up
• When View is closed the associated process is also killed

Would the arrangement described above be possible? The one thing I am little worried is scroll behavior... how much control one has over scrollbar and moving the cursor to the end of scratch buffer?

[xeno.by]

Take a look at exec.py in sublime's distribution.

Speaking of the scroll, you can easily position cursor wherever you want. Check out how exec.py handles it.

[miohtama3]

Also jut found out about this

https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL