Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Modern Terminal Emulators?

Slashdot reader SoftwareArtist writes:Terminal emulators have barely changed in 30 years. They're still just scrolling windows of unstructured text. Why is there so little innovation in an application we use every day? There are so many ways they could be modernized to help us be more productive. For example: - If I type ls to show a directory listing, I should be able to right-click on a filename and get a list of operations to perform on that file, just like a file browser. - If I start to type a filename and press tab twice, it shouldn't just print a list of possible completions. It should provide a popup to select the one I want. - Why can't I cat an image file and see the image right in the terminal window? Are there any modern terminals that update this important tool for the 21st century? And if not, what prevents them?

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