Thanks, this is a good read. I did not know MyST, it is very cool.
The vim plugin I was talking about was vim-slime [0], which seems to date from 2007 and does have regions delimited with #%%.
Slime comes from Emacs originally, but I could not find if the original Emacs slime has regions.
Matlab also has those, which they call code sections [1]. Hard to find when they were introduced. Maybe 2021, but I suspect older.
None of those stores gge output of the command.
[0] https://vimawesome.com/plugin/vim-slime
[1] https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/create-and...