Comment by anthk

The transcript on Smalltalk is a bad point when the environment itself (the object browser) it what matters in the end. You already have a logical browser far superior to boldted pipes under XTerm. Even 9front has a ndb(1) tool (not just useful for network settings) which can be reused as a small text database a la GNU recutils.

With rio windows I get an actual text stream to copy and paste (and grep and wahtnot), not the text, terminal control codes for bold and colour and often DEC decorations such as the ones in Nethack for walls.