Actually, these two paragraphs are more general and less about this (ill-advised) patch so they might be worth keeping:

> I wanted a slightly less demanding interface (in terms of attention and screen real estate) so that I don't have to touch a browser while I'm doing stuff, and a tiny window in Plan 9 works nice.

> It'd be nicer to be able to use it inside acme like with the shoutbox client I did ( https://git.freespeechextremist.com/gitweb/?p=chatclient ), but it looks like the `Sshd.ShellHandler` library that Pleroma uses is kind of wedded to doing server-side line editing (or I think so, https://github.com/jbenden/esshd , I didn't see an option to turn that stuff off) and it (rudely) closes the connection without an error message if you connect *without* a vt100 emulator. (This also makes it a pain to try to script things through the ssh interface.) In any case, even a vt100 emulator is smaller than a browser window.