   In the post about my <a href="./posts/phd-workflow/2022-05-01-my-phd-workflow.html#citations" class="local-link">research workflow</a>, I briefly mentioned having to
call Emacs—or other external programs—from within <span class="small-caps">xm</span>onad. I figured
that this was perhaps something that could be of use to more people than
just me. After a little bit of deliberation and coming up with a
generic enough <span class="small-caps">api</span>, I decided to turn it into an <span class="small-c