What is it that sucks about Terminal.app that iTerm2 fixes?
I'd be interested in that too. I've never wanted anything more than what Terminal.app offers, but maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
Re:The Mac Pro Lives
by Whitestrake on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:07AM
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The iTerm2 features page[1] has a pretty good run-down of all the extra stuff it can do. Personally, I'm a big fan of the split panes, and I use iTerm2 full screen with two panes.
That said, almost identical behaviour can be had in fullscreen with two Terminal windows sharing a full screen desktop space.
I also enjoy having my terminal be a slightly-transparent black rectangular slate, with no title bars, corner curving, etc., but that's purely preference and has no impact on functionality.
To be fair, the built in Terminal.app sucks, you have to get iTerm2, which is a 3rd-party app, but at least it's not another $40 replacement app that shouldn't suck by default, (the same cannot be said for Finder and its replacements).