Re:ITerm2 2.0
by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:45PM
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I have a terminal open nearly all the time, too! I suppose I tend to just open multiple terminal windows, and resize/organize them with Moom (or just the mouse). I can cycle between them on the keyboard, and Terminal lets me paste with middle click, has context right-click menus, etc. (I only recently noticed it has man page lookup in the right-click menu, and learned that if you option-click anywhere in a Terminal.app window it sends that as a mouse click to the app running inside it!) If I absolutely want panes within the same terminal, I run tmux locally.
Terminal.app used to suck, certainly. I suspect a lot of iTerm users are long-term users who really haven't seen how much better Terminal.app is today than it was five or six years ago.
If I could ask an unrelated question, what are you using to power 2 external monitors on your MBP? I have a 30" monitor at $work, but a pair of smaller monitors would be even better.
Modern MBP's have two thunderbolt plugs.. Thunderbolt to DVI to two Dell U2412M's makes for a nice dev environment if you spend a lot of time in terminals.
Ahhh, that would make it simple! I was hoping you were going to recommend a device that would make it work for my single Thunderbolt port MBP.
tmux supports everything you just described.
Not less then one column character borders.. It has to burn a column to create borders.. And a couple of other laggy issues.. I need to play with tmux more but when on a bunch of different machines going iTerm straight to the box and using splits makes for a more enjoyable experience.
IMHO Arguing about terminal emulators is almost as religious as arguing about languages. Pick what works for you and I won't judge you if you don't judge me.. Now can we get back to solving real problems.. LOL :-)
I'm less about tabs and more about splits, with two 24" monitors and my 13" MBP on my desk I can have lots of text space to work with and very little window distraction from window chrome.
Maybe it's just because I'm old fashioned and I love to live on the command prompt (vim -vs- sublime all day long) and I grew up in the era of TTY's and 300 Baud modems.. iTerm feels more natural then Terminal.app, it feels like a terminal someone would use all day long -vs- something you hop in for 20 seconds to type some obscure OSX command you cut-paste'd from some site.
In the past I ran into dumb emulation issues with Terminal.app like wrapping and stuff that didn't work right. iTerm seems to be a "programmers" terminal more then a simple utility to get to the command line.