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?

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.

Also jut found out about this

https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL