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Couldn't agree more with you. Simplicity is the key to a sane world. I haven't had any problems with colors or fonts with st since I dropped urxvt in favor of the former. It is also harmful to assume that bash is always present, or worst, that it is the default shell; I've spent a reasonable amount of time learning how to effectively write portable shell scripts that can run in any Unix-like system, because portability is important. Bash is huge, and that makes it more prone to error and bugs, not to mention slower, the perfect balance I've found between speed and interactivity is mksh, I know dash can be faster, but it only works for scripting, as an interactive shell it sucks, and that's ok.