The impact of a terminal

Article author seems to confuses 'terminal emulator', 'terminal', and 'shell'.

For example: "Funny enough, gnome-terminal does support some of the windows defaults such as CTRL+LeftArrow to move back one word."

That is a (presumably) bash feature, not gnome-terminal. (And if bash is anything like zsh, it is capable of quite a bit more.)

"The most important feature for me was not the alpha transparency or tabbed command prompts, but the ability to select across multiple lines."

And that is a terminal emulator feature...

Futhermore, the "windows console" (whatever that's actually called) has very little actually in common with actual 'terminal [emulator]/shell/[p]tty' stacks.

burgerbrain - You're right in that I use many of these terms literally interchangably.

You're right about ctrl+arrow being a bash feature (confirmed using xterm) - thanks!

What I was trying to get across in the article is that the entire emulator/shell/tty is a package and people are quite particular about theirs.