Re:iTerm2 3.3
by chipotle_coyote on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:40PM
(#20588114)
This does lend credence to my perception that Terminal is faster. I know everybody else love love loves iTerm2, but I could never get past the feeling of "ugh I am typing in molasses what is going on here." Later versions have been better, but later versions of Terminal have also had more functionality. It's possible I still don't know what I'm missing, but so far the must have features I've tried apparently just weren't ones I must have. (Yes, I know about split panes, but I can run tmux. Yes, I know about iTerm2's tmux integration and I tried it and it was kind of [shrug emoji] for me, I dunno. Terminal has a find-on-page feature and I so far haven't been saddened it doesn't support regex. My shell has autocomplete and iTerm hasn't sold me on its implementation being better. Alfred has a clipboard history and iTerm hasn't sold me on its implementation being better. And so on.)
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Re:iTerm2 3.3
by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:09AM
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The killer features of iterm for me are three:
1. Built in password manager (command-alt-f) for the Times you’re stuck with ssh passwords
2. Output triggers: iterm can run actions in response to certain text on stdout: I use this to insert a mark at each terminal prompt line and when the phrase “NOTICE ME:” is detected. This way, I can use iterm’s mark navigation features to quickly jump to interesting lines
3. Finally, the biggest advantage of iterm is its ability to auto detect soft boundaries like vim vertical splits and restrict selection to one side or the other of the split.
It might not be for you, but I would recommend reading through this https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-highlights.html
I personally find the following either cool or really productive;
Open Quickly, Undo close, Triggers, Smart Selection, Instant Replay, Regular Expression Search, Save Mark/Jump to Mark
Re:iTerm2 3.3
by dorian-graph on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:33PM
(#20595893)
I've spent at least 6+ straight months on iTerm2 3.x, kitty, and Alacritty (my current primary terminal), and briefly tried Terminal. Terminal is waaay faster. The only thing that's stopping me from using it as my primary terminal is the poor colour support and poor split window support (and setting shortcuts to go between them).