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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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