I wrote a terminal emulator <https://github.com/adamdruppe/terminal-emulator> https://github.com/adamdruppe/terminal-emulator> and use it daily so it is good en

I wrote a terminal emulator <https://github.com/adamdruppe/terminal-emulator> https://github.com/adamdruppe/terminal-emulator> and use it daily so it is good enough for me at least... clocks in at ~15k lines (including the gui helper lib). The biggest complexity is dealing with legacy terminals... and you can really just target the handful of xterm features programs actually use and get something working without a huge amount of code.