You know what's a real internet rabbithole? Reading up on terminal emulators, and how they interact with (n)curses. Only recently did I become aware that Thomas E. Dickey maintains both ncurses and xterm. And do you know how many people are trying to scratch the itch to write a better one? From the vast number of terminal emulator projects, alive, dead, and zombie-shuffling along, it would seem that everyone on the internet is working or has worked on a better terminal emulator.
Famous last words! I think this may be why so many of the terminal emulator projects are abandoned. One thinks, "I could do that," and then trips over Dickey's vttest and Paul Flo Williams' vt100.net. And maybe ECMA-048. And then one remembers about unicode... Anyhow, I was going to start one this morning after reading about eshell, but my research persuaded me this would be a lot of trouble.
