XTerm is a terminal emulator for X11. It comes with X11 and provides full VT100 emulation! However its defaults are not that great.
To enable Emacs style key combinations, add XTerm.VT100.modifyOtherKeys: 1 to ~/.Xdefaults
Run xfontsel and add XTerm*font:<font line> to your ~/.Xresources.
XTerm*font: -schumacher-clean-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*ScrollBar: off
xterm*font: fixed
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
See https://hypexr.org/linux_ruboff.html
If you only care about emacs, M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode