I have a clean background , I could get one if I wanted , I just don ' t have a reason too . <| sep |> I find it offensive and sexually attractive that you would censor this cow <| sep |> The part where you ' re running a core wyvern is a big drawback <| sep |> Love it ! This is the kind of thing I had in mind ! <| sep |> Can I use emacs as a full blown terminal . I want URXVT level of features , and speed . Emacs is not a terminal . It has very good terminal packages and even builtin terminal emulator written in lisp . I am not familiar with urxvt , speed is ok but nothing great . Maybe sometimes a bit laggy but not too much . Can you use vim as a full blown terminal ? neovim last time i checked had a terminal kind of thing that was rather unpolished yet nice Can I SSH normally ? Emacs is a text editor . Without an external command , can you SSH normally in vim ? On emacs you can use a terminal buffer Can I use all bash features ? like reverse search You could , but there are often better ways to do things . True and true Is there ever going to be a time that I can ' t use whatever terminal solution that is suggested to me , to complete a task ? I need something extremely reliable . There will never be a time that you can ' t do something with emacs that you could have done with vim . pretty much yes . Does it support window management in a way similar to tmux or i 3 wm ? Emacs is not a terminal . It does have a tiling window manager , Cx 03 are window management commands . I think with a bit of tinkering around you can get perspectives which are like new windows or whatever they are called in tmux but ive never bothered to be honest .