There are emulations of the Plan 9 smart terminals that run under Unix-like operating systems. They are quite different from xterms - they have much simplified

There are emulations of the Plan 9 smart terminals that run under Unix-like operating systems. They are quite different from xterms - they have much simplified communication with the remote host but much richer local editing capabilities: http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~matty/9term/ http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~matty/9term/ https://github.com/chneukirchen/tt https://github.com/chneukirchen/tt The original Plan 9 terminal and window manager are described here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/rio http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/rio