diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index ed79004e..e0801da6 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ Kakoune dependencies are:
  * boost (>= 1.50)
  * ncurses with wide-characters support (>= 5.3, generally refered as libncursesw)
  * bash (kak scripts use some bash specific features)
- * socat (used by kak scripts to write to kak control socket)
 
 To build, just type *make* in the src directory
 
@@ -100,6 +99,8 @@ Just running *kak* launch a new kak session with a client on local terminal.
        the session name to be specified with -s. In this mode, the Kakoune
        server will keep running even if there is no connected client, and
        will quit when receiving SIGTERM.
+ * +-p <session>+: read stdin, and then send its content to the given session
+       this way kak act as a remote control.
 
 At startup, if +-n+ is not specified, Kakoune will try to source the file
 ../share/kak/kakrc relative to the kak binary. This kak file will then try
diff --git a/doc/interfacing.asciidoc b/doc/interfacing.asciidoc
index e636ccea..328357f9 100644
--- a/doc/interfacing.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/interfacing.asciidoc
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ For example, we can echo a message in Kakoune in 10 seconds with:
 :nop %sh{ (
     sleep 10
     echo "eval -client '$kak_client' 'echo sleep ended'" |
-        socat stdin UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/kak-${kak_session}
+        kak -p ${kak_session}
 ) >& /dev/null < /dev/null & }
 ----
 
@@ -118,6 +118,6 @@ nop %sh{ ( # launch a detached shell
     completions="$line.$column@$kak_timestamp:$candidates"
     # write to Kakoune socket for the buffer that triggered the completion
     echo "set buffer=${kak_bufname} completions '$completions'" |
-        socat stdin UNIX-SOCKET:/tmp/kak-${kak_session}
+        kak -p ${kak_session}
 ) >& /dev/null < /dev/null & }
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