[onan_barbarian]

I got excited to click on this, imagining that someone was modernizing less. Which is true in a narrow sense, but am I the only one to feel a lingering disappointment that we run shells in xterms (or slightly modified equivalents) that emulate ancient terminals, then implement pagers to page through screen after screen?

Can anyone point to work that starts with the combination of the two following propositions:

1. User interface elements invented since the 1970s are a pretty neat thing.

2. Text-based shells and the command line are also a pretty neat thing.

[rogual]

There was TermKit (https://github.com/unconed/TermKit) but the author has stopped working on it.

[onan_barbarian]

Yes. His sentiments here http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ are very close to mine: "It makes me wonder, when sitting in front of a crisp, 2.3 million pixel display (i.e. a laptop) why I'm telling those pixels to draw me a computer terminal from the 80s".

I'm not crazy about every last aspect of his design there - but it's a start.

[maxerickson]

There's Acme:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

I have never tried to use it, and I'm not sure it's mixing the ingredients in the way you are thinking.