Terminal-like widget

[Jan van der Laan <gtkmm eoos dds nl>]

I am looking for a terminal-like widget. Something that offers a prompt 
for user input and displays messages/output. I have looked at 
libvte(mm), but as far as I am aware libvte expects a second process 
which probably also has to supply the prompt etc. using for example 
readline. In my case I have a library that has, as fas as the terminal 
part is concerned, two signals: one get_input at which point my program 
is expected to show a prompt and get input from the user which is then 
send back to the library and two write_message at which point my program 
is expected to write the message to the console (btw this can also 
happen during input).

I have looked at 'modifying' a textview and have got something that 
behaves somewhat like a terminal. However, getting everything exactly 
right is going to be quite a bit of work and I'd rather focus on other 
aspects of my program. Does any one know of an existing widget I could 
use? Thanks.

Regards,
Jan