Is there some existing software to use a virtual filesystem to translate file contents? (read-only or read-write).
It would be interesting to be able to generate a view on a code-base, for example.
- be able to grep the code without comments (could be useful sometimes, read-only).
- convert tabs to spaces while editing (trivial, contrived example).
- translate language syntax (would be non-trivial to do read-write in a reliable way).
Note, translation could be done with any tool which accepts stdin/stdout, but could be a bit more involved too (you may want to know file name extension for example).