A tour of vterm
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vterm is a terminal emulator inside Emacs that benchmarks at 0.6 seconds for a 1MB file versus much slower ansi-term, because it embeds the libvterm C library (the same backend used by Newton) and implements full xterm escape codes, 256+ colors, and interactive apps like htop and ncdu. It supports title and directory syncing, a message‑passing hook to call Emacs functions, a copy mode for searching and selection, and requires Emacs built with module support (Linux/Mac only).
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