I must have missed the reasonable reasons. All I saw was: 1. Terminal emulators have too many LOC (how many LOC does cairo, Xlib, Chrome, or GTK have?) 2. Oh

I must have missed the reasonable reasons. All I saw was: 1. Terminal emulators have too many LOC (how many LOC does cairo, Xlib, Chrome, or GTK have?) 2. Oh noes, you have to check for control codes in your text. (do you want to use a text editor that doesn't?)