Introduction

The standard terminal that comes installed as part of your operating system (whether it be Mac, Linux, or Windows based) is seen by most users to be a harsh and barren wasteland, devoid of emotion and color. Respected by many a neckbeard for its power in all but a few areas where it falls short.

If you’re unfamiliar with the (joke) term “neckbeard”, it roughly refers to a Unix system administrator type user. You know, the type of person who has an intimate knowledge of the internals of the Linux kernel and could probably write an OS over a weekend – the sort of hardened engineer who fears no terminal environment. Even they have experienced times where their terminal fails to do the advanced tasks required to ease their workload; ...

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