User contributed scripts

Please describe the change / addition you'd like to see made

One of the great things about "ad" is how easy it is to write little scripts to adapt how the editor works. Some of these will be very bespoke to the user, others will be scripts that many users could be interested in and could avoid "reinventing the wheel"

for example a script to comment out lines of code (a simple adaption to the indent script)

#!/usr/bin/env bash
source "$HOME/.ad/lib/ad.sh"

requireAd
id="$(currentBufferId)"
addr="$(bufRead "$id" addr | sed -E 's/(.+):.+,(.+):.+/\1,\2/')"
# append comment for sh, python or R
adEdit '. x/.+/ s/^/#/'
echo "$addr" | bufWrite "$id" addr

Could there be a discoverable way for users to contribute scripts like this to ad? Say in a "contrib" directory?

Is this a feature you have seen in other text editors?

This isn't an example for a text editor but plan9 has a "contrib" directory. Listed here https://plan9.io/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.html

Other editors Emacs, Vim, VSCode have package repositories such as MELPA for emacs https://melpa.org/

A package repository is very likely overkill for ad but a place to contribute and find useful scripts such as in plan9 might be useful?

sminez / ad

User contributed scripts #47

Please describe the change / addition you'd like to see made

Is this a feature you have seen in other text editors?