diff --git a/.config/kak/autoload/lsp.kak b/.config/kak/autoload/lsp.kak
index 40b21fe1..fa4100b2 100644
--- a/.config/kak/autoload/lsp.kak
+++ b/.config/kak/autoload/lsp.kak
@@ -2,6 +2,32 @@
 eval %sh{kak-lsp}
 # eval %sh{kak-lsp-diags}
 
+define-command -override -hidden lsp-do-send-async %{
+    echo -quoting shell -to-file /tmp/kak-lsp.txt %reg{a}
+    echo -quoting shell -to-file %opt{lsp_fifo} %reg{a}
+    echo -to-file %opt{lsp_fifo} ' '
+    # nop %sh{ notify-send "this runs!" }
+}
+
+define-command -hidden lsp-do-send-sync %{
+    unset-option buffer lsp_do_send_maybe_sync
+    evaluate-commands %sh{
+        tmp=$(mktemp -q -d -t 'kak-lsp-sync.XXXXXX' 2>/dev/null || mktemp -q -d)
+        pipe=${tmp}/fifo
+        if ! mkfifo ${pipe}; then
+            echo 'fail failed to create fifo'
+            exit
+        fi
+        trap "rm -f ${pipe}; rmdir ${tmp} 2>/dev/null" EXIT INT QUIT
+        printf >${kak_opt_lsp_fifo} "%s '%s' " \
+            "${kak_quoted_reg_a}" "${pipe}"
+        cat ${pipe}
+    }
+}
+
+
+
+
 # mappings
 map global user l ': enter-user-mode lsp<ret>' -docstring 'LSP mode'