Is there a Command Console? Is there a scripting language?

[tachir0]

Firstly let me express my love for this game. The only other games I play repeatedly and regularly are Stellaris, Civ, and Europa Universalis.
I feel like this game "gets me". I love spending time just in the game. I love just being at the helm of my ships...most often doing nothing

Because I enjoy just being in-game so much, I would like to "do more". It would be great if there was a command-console like the one in Stellaris to list information that is also accessible in the GUI. Alternatively, it would just nice if the command-console could jump straight to the UI submenu.

It would be cool if you could take little notes also in-game. (Right now I have to flip to personal wiki I keep for X4 notes).

A LUA or Python-based scripting language would also be pretty awesome, but I know that is a bigger ask.

I suspect I am not the only one that has had the desire for these things. So the question is if this stuff already exists...and if not, how are players jerry-rigging some of this functionality.

[Alan Phipps]

Thais is not a Tech Sp request and so I'll move this to the main X4 forum where more players will see it. If you were thinking more of going down a modified route to achieve your aims then the S&M forum might have been even better.

[pref]

UI is LUA, game engine has its own scripting language.
Maybe start here.