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Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by mlinsey »

SeoxyS wrote: post #18

You have to be kidding me, right? This app is so bloated and unpolished—it really doesn't feel like it belongs on the Mac. I'll take OSX Lion's sleek Terminal.app over iTerm any day. My favorite new feature, it lets you customize ANSI colors! Screenshot of Lion Terminal: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/kenneth_%E2%80%94_vim-20110707-1... Edit: I know I'm going to get tons of downvotes for this. But it's my opinion that s…

I think only a few things in iTerm2 are really unpolished. That said, when a tool becomes part of how you do work for 14+ hours a day, feature-set and efficiency can matter more than simplicity and intuitiveness. After all, that's why we're using a command line in the first place! Terminal itself doesn't really "feel like it belongs on the Mac".

I wouldn't want to spend all that time in a terminal without native screen splitting, just to pick one example of a cool iTerm 2 feature.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by fourspace »

SeoxyS wrote: post #18

You have to be kidding me, right? This app is so bloated and unpolished—it really doesn't feel like it belongs on the Mac. I'll take OSX Lion's sleek Terminal.app over iTerm any day. My favorite new feature, it lets you customize ANSI colors! Screenshot of Lion Terminal: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/kenneth_%E2%80%94_vim-20110707-1... Edit: I know I'm going to get tons of downvotes for this. But it's my opinion that s…

My iTerm2 looks exactly like that screenshot, and is available now (unlike Lion).

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by WALoeIII »

SeoxyS wrote: post #19
TylerE wrote: post #9

Does the font rendering seem very different to anyone else? Using the same font (Anonymous Pro 14pt), I had to increase the vertical spacing from 1.0 (as it was in iTerm) to ~1.18 to get the same spacing. Bold is rendered differently (worse) too. It does seem quite a bit snappier on my old G5 though. Comparison shot: iTerm on the left, iterm2 on right: http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png

What app are you using to browse HN in CLI?

Probably lynx.

http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by fourspace »

SeoxyS wrote: post #19
TylerE wrote: post #9

Does the font rendering seem very different to anyone else? Using the same font (Anonymous Pro 14pt), I had to increase the vertical spacing from 1.0 (as it was in iTerm) to ~1.18 to get the same spacing. Bold is rendered differently (worse) too. It does seem quite a bit snappier on my old G5 though. Comparison shot: iTerm on the left, iterm2 on right: http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png

What app are you using to browse HN in CLI?

Looks like `links`.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by mgutz »

SeoxyS wrote: post #18

You have to be kidding me, right? This app is so bloated and unpolished—it really doesn't feel like it belongs on the Mac. I'll take OSX Lion's sleek Terminal.app over iTerm any day. My favorite new feature, it lets you customize ANSI colors! Screenshot of Lion Terminal: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/kenneth_%E2%80%94_vim-20110707-1... Edit: I know I'm going to get tons of downvotes for this. But it's my opinion that s…

May I ask what is so bloated and unpolished? Back up your dribbling. I have been using iTerm for a while now and it's as fast normal Terminal. It has profiles. It has 256 colors so I can use the same VIM colorschemes.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by msc »

SeoxyS wrote: post #18

You have to be kidding me, right? This app is so bloated and unpolished—it really doesn't feel like it belongs on the Mac. I'll take OSX Lion's sleek Terminal.app over iTerm any day. My favorite new feature, it lets you customize ANSI colors! Screenshot of Lion Terminal: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/kenneth_%E2%80%94_vim-20110707-1... Edit: I know I'm going to get tons of downvotes for this. But it's my opinion that s…

I really like Profiles and Split Horizontally/Vertically

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by marbletiles »

SeoxyS wrote: post #18

You have to be kidding me, right? This app is so bloated and unpolished—it really doesn't feel like it belongs on the Mac. I'll take OSX Lion's sleek Terminal.app over iTerm any day. My favorite new feature, it lets you customize ANSI colors! Screenshot of Lion Terminal: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/kenneth_%E2%80%94_vim-20110707-1... Edit: I know I'm going to get tons of downvotes for this. But it's my opinion that s…

Lion's terminal app is a beach ball nightmare on this machine. Hitting tab to complete a directory in bash results in a 3-second pause every time. Longer if the directory doesn't exist.

I wondered if it was my new SSD, but it doesn't happen in iTerm, so I guess not.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by JonnieCache »

tptacek wrote: post #23

I wasn't a fan of iTerm "1". What's new in 2? Someone got a summary? I don't see it on their site.

Its a fork, and its basically completely different now. I reccomend giving it a try. I use it because of the more powerful keyboard binding, but it has many other features.

edit: no idea why i thought it was googles fork. corrected.

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