st is a terminal emulator from the suckless project with a focus on
simplicity, clarity and frugality. The project's philosophy is about
keeping things simple, minimal and usable.
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st supports most VT10X escape sequences, serial lines, XIM, utmp via
utmp(1), clipboard handling, mouse and keyboard shortcuts, UTF-8, wide
characters, resize, 256 colors, true colors, antialiased fonts (using
fontconfig), fallback fonts, and line drawing. It is called 'stterm' for
historical reasons.

This Debian package does provide a scrollback buffer,
and it supports color emoji.

For installation, check out
https://launchpad.net/~suntong001/+archive/ubuntu/ppa