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But why wouldn't you just use any old window tiling manager?
Having 2 separate windows requires an extra mouseclick for any interaction on most OSes. For example, try to highlight text on a non-focused window. Obviously a tiny extra effort, and not sure it justifies this feature, but it can add up for some things.
When the window management and UI/UX of your OS is so bad the terminal emulator devs decide they can do a better job themselves...
Problems we wouldn't have if more people used i3/sway.
Use Linux i guess ? I would if I could but my employer let me chose between a shitty Windows 11 PC or a M4 Pro Macbook.
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Problems we wouldn't have if more people used i3/sway.
Which you can't use on macOS. Use Linux i guess ? I would if I could but my employer let me chose between a shitty Windows 11 PC or a M4 Pro Macbook.
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Problems we wouldn't have if more people used i3/sway.
Which you can't use on macOS. Use Linux i guess ? I would if I could but my employer let me chose between a shitty Windows 11 PC or a M4 Pro Macbook.
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except: > AI Integration
It's off-by-default AI integration though, which is far less of an issue. If AI is useful for you then you can turn it on, for the rest of us we don't even notice by default unless you go into the config menus
If you're a Mac user and not using iTerm2 then run don't walk to download it.
First, we got 3D accelerated terminals, then AI assisted terminals, now web browser enabled terminals. Tomorrow we have operating system in the terminal.
That's called eMacs.
Amazing terminal, it has served me so well over the years. I wouldn’t consider anything else. If you lean in to the advanced features, there’s nothing to touch it. Can’t believe it’s free, but I am very grateful for the fact. Thanks, George!
Can you enlighten me with some advanced features that you use? I would love to start using them. I have always used iTerm, but never really used advanced stuff.
https://iterm2.com/features.html
I'll just mention some that I have used and found good.
The drop-down visor like Yakuake is great.
Instant Replay is handy for ephemeral text that gets wiped from the terminal, like TUI apps and scaffolding tools. You can imagine that there's always something like Asciinema recording into a buffer, so you can stop and rewind to catch any output you missed.
The notifications are useful.. I can start a long running task, get on with other things, and get a MacOS notification when that terminal rang a bell.
Global search is good, and searches across tabs. I also set a large scrollback buffer, so I can do a reverse incremental search for strings. You can also use the Triggers facility to highlight any string matches (or regex) whenever they occur in the terminal output. This is great when you are tailing a log and want to know immediately when an expression is output, alerting you that a condition has occurred.
Jumping up and down through the command entry points in a session is useful, if there's a lot of output to cut through (I think vscode terminal also does this).
I've also used the toolbelt side-window when I want to repeat verbose commands on a host where I don't want to set up aliases. There is much more you can do with the toolbelt, including automatically capturing text that matches regex patterns.
There's a lot I haven't mentioned, but those are some features I can recall finding useful.