I really wish devdraw would get real Plan9 behavior and 9term would gain readline-style interaction such that they would allow us to transition to a rich terminal which can host text and graphics natively. I know there are some hacks like this one or Terminology (Enlightenment project), but those are still hacks. If you've ever used a native Plan9 environment where running a graphical application from within a shell transforms the shell into the graphical application, you know what I mean. It's very natural to lose the distinction. Yes, there are some hacks and closed applications that do some of this, but those cannot be used universally. Sadly plan9port and their devdraw and drawterm create a separate window and do not transform the terminal.