@Soblow Thank you for writing this, reading it has been very educational!

I have a number of things in development that will make iocaine less of a pain, and more suitable for cases like yours - but... that takes a bit of time.

And NSoE's documentation is a mess, indeed. My excuse is that it was never meant to be used by anyone else, it's something I wrote for me. But there was no other option for a long time, and even if iocaine3 has a built-in script now, that's not as good as NSoE (yet).

I have plans to address that shortcoming, so there's an option that isn't NSoE, has useful, navigatable documentation that isn't written like a mad scientist's diary1.

But all the issues you listed are valid, and you even highlighted shortcomings I wasn't aware of, and tricks I did not consider. Now I have more things to play with!

1. That was highly amusing to read, and I chuckled. Thanks!2 ↩︎

2. Yes, I know, it's not a praise, but... algernon looks at the domain he's tooting from... yeah. ↩︎