One word: e-shell Does everything FinalTerm does, and probably more (and can be driver with the keyboard only). Funny thing, I don't like e-shell. I rarely, i

One word: e-shell Does everything FinalTerm does, and probably more (and can be driver with the keyboard only). Funny thing, I don't like e-shell. I rarely, if ever, have to interact with the output of the previous command. For command re-editing, most shells (zsh, bash) offer very powerful completition/editing capabilities that probably FinalTerm cannot match. Admittedly, I sometimes (but rarely) have to use the output of the previous command. The problem is, if it's an url, you probably just want to click it/copy it, and then pretty much all terminals can do this already. If I want to process the output of the command, I just re-execute it in a pipeline. Just compare the number of keystrokes to go up ~10 lines and the time to type !! (or up-arrow) | grep 'something'. Heck, even copying the output to the clipboard is faster by using a pipe: cmd | xsel Reflowing is also something many terminals do nowdays. I personally use urxvt because it's the fastest terminal I could test, and actually supports fallback fontsets. VTE-based terminals (even the ones that pretend to be small and fast) are 5-6 orders of magnitude slower at redrawing. e-shell, by comparison, is a dog due to the much more complex display.