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So, the author is surprised xterm can be configured to mimic most modern terminals, though it lacks some basic conveniences like text reflow.

What's the point? Why not use another terminal then? It has low latency, but it's not an order of magnitude faster than any other GPU accelerated terminal, so I don't get the point of choosing a subpar product that is 10% faster.

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> but it's not an order of magnitude faster than any other GPU accelerated terminal

It is [0,1]. Have you tried it? Up to individual preference, of course, but for me it does feel a lot better.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

[1] https://danluu.com/term-latency/

I did, it's noticeable, but not enough for me to switch from the convenience of nice antialiasing and desktop integration.

I use Black Box [1] from Flatpak because it has great design and smart copy (Ctrl-C does both copy and SIGINT depending on the context), which is more important to me than shaving a few ms latency. These days a lot of terminal work is done with `eat` from Emacs [2], which is even slower than Blackbox.

1: https://flathub.org/apps/com.raggesilver.BlackBox

2: https://akib.codeberg.page/blog/introducing-eat.html

xterm has anti aliasing

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