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A new iTerm2 fork
Just glancing through this, I didn't see any killer features over the Snow Leopard Terminal, but maybe I just missed them. Can someone tell me any?
A new iTerm2 fork
I think that Apple caught up with Snow Leopard.
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-- Kalak I am, and always will be, an Idiot.
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Being a Terminal.app user and having been more than satisfied with it for a long time, I'm curious if iTerm has certain features Terminal.app has that are advantages over other terminals. The main feature of Terminal.app that I use the most and now can't live without is the ability to search the contents of the window with command-f (and command-e, command-g, and command-shift-g) with unlimited scroll-back set. None of my windows and linux-using friends can do this and I hear gasps and ahhs and wows when they see me do it. Also, copy-paste doesn't insert hard returns when the lines wrap. Plus, Teminal.app is very stable. I have dozens of terminals open in multiple spaces (I don't like tabs) and they run for months without crashing. I also use option/center-click to position the cursor and command-t to name windows. Does iTerm do all this?
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use the most and now can't live without is the ability to search the contents of the window with command-f (and command-e, command-g, and command-shift-g) with unlimited scroll-back set. None of my windows and linux-using friends can do this and I hear gasps and ahhs and wows when they see me do it. Also, copy-paste doesn't insert hard returns when the lines wrap. Plus, Teminal.app is very stable. I have dozens of terminals open in multiple spaces (I don't like tabs) and they run for months without crashing. I also use option/center-click to position the cursor and command-t to name windows. Does iTerm do all this? ---
-- Kalak I am, and always will be, an Idiot.
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cmd-f, cmd-g, cmd-shift-g, work. No clue what cmd-e does anyway, so I can't tell you. ;)If the others work, cmd-e likely does too. It basically pastes the highlighted text into the search window (but without bringing the search window up). Do you happen to know if searching behaves correctly with selected text that is line wrapped (i.e. it will find the string even when it's not line-wrapped) and if it you can search with multi-line search strings as in Terminal.app? For the scroll back buffer, it's variable, and mine is set at 100,000 lines. Not sure what it's upper limit is.So I take it "unlimited" is not an option, as in Terminal.app. Can you get unlimited if you set the buffer to 0 or something? The click to position I'd never heard of, but it does seem to be missing that. I don't like the mouse really (which is why I'm usually on the command line), so that's not a loss for me.I knock off long perl one-liners all the time, so ^a and ^e don't cut it for me and the cursor doesn't move fast enough. I'm not aware of any other cursor-positioning shortcuts, so option-click positioning of the cursor is a huge time-saver. I don't know if I could live without that one either. Edited on Sep 09, '10 01:18:25PM by robleach
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The features you list are nice, but I've lived without them for awhile. Besides, I find that focus follows mouse has lead me to unintended input at timesActually, there is a hidden preference to have that in Terminal.app too. See this hint. But I kind of agree. I'm considering turning it off, since if you have another program in the front, it will ignore all keystrokes if your mouse is over a Terminal window. I knock off long perl one-liners all the time, so ^a and ^e don't cut it for me and the cursor doesn't move fast enough. I'm not aware of any other cursor-positioning shortcuts, so option-click positioning of the cursor is a huge time-saver. I don't know if I could live without that one either.Hey, I didn't know about that feature! Thanks for the tip. Really great for those lone one-liners like you say. Too bad it's the same feature that uses rectangular selection, so if you drag instead of click, it does some weird selection instead.
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I forgot about that. I use the box-selection all the time too! It's great for grabbing a column of tabbed data. Does iTerm do that? I think that it sounds to me like Terminal.app is superior given all these features it has that I use every day and none of the other terminal programs have them. I don't see any advantages iTerm has that are worth losing these other features that iTerm doesn't have: unlimited scrollback, option-click cursor positioning, a helluva search capability (multi-line search terms, correct searching over wrapped lines, etc), window titling, box-text selection... I know there's gotta be more. Terminal.app has tons of features. Auto-copy of text might be useful to some, but it would hinder me since I don't always want to overwrite my clipboard buffer because I either want to select text to search with (cmd-e) or even drag-and-drop (which basically allows me to copy one snippet to the clipboard, then drap and drop other selected text, leaving the clipboard contents intact). I use that little trick all the time. I would miss all these little nuances greatly if I used something that didn't have them. In fact, I often get annoyed when I'm at someone else's computer and I have to do 3-click work-arounds to do what I could do in Terminal.app with a single operation. Edited on Sep 09, '10 02:57:36PM by robleach
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Yep, Terminal.app has been superior to most other terminal apps for a long time. The only thing iTerm had over it was tabs, and we've had that for a while now in Terminal.app. All the extra features listed can be configured/added to Terminal.app; like the one where focus follows mouse, which can be enabled with a "defaults" command.
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Oh yeah, here's another feature: multiple selections of text. I can hold the command key down and select as many snippets of text as I want and then copy and paste the group of individually selected items (which will paste with hard-returns in between). There are so many ease-of-use features that make my work go faster. Terminal.app is a time-saver. Here's a synopsis. Note, you'll have to let me know if iTerm can do any of these:
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My problem with Terminal.app is that it just has some annoying traits. AppleScript support is shoddy at best, it doesn't seem to remember profiles when you open new tabs or windows... iTerm may not add anything significant over what terminal does, but iTerm does seem to handle the niceties a bit better.
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From my experiences and information in the help:
Inline Perl code in shell - use zsh
For longish inline Perl code in the shell, I think zsh is cool. You can enter this:
A new iTerm2 fork
The only reason I use iTerm occasionally is the "Send Input to all Tabs" feature. Whatever you type in one tab gets routed to all other tabs (of the same window) as well. Comes in handy for doing a task on multiple remote servers in parallel.
A new iTerm2 fork
Seriously, folks? 256 xterm colors, and full mouse reporting (inc. middle click). Terminal does neither, and no other terminal emulator on the Mac (I have tested all the ones I could find (excluding under X11), about 7 total) does full mouse reporting. |
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