ITerm2 2.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by dangayle » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:11 AM UTC

Besides Firefox, iTerm2 is my most used app, by far. I love the customizability of it, the Visor mode, and how stable it it to work with. I've used it so long, I don't even remember why I don't use Terminal.app any more.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by stephenitis » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:12 AM UTC

I like the idea of triggers. auto-highlighting the following regex's makes life a bit better whille reading logs and traces.

.[eE](rror|xception). highlight error lines :\d+ highlight line numbers in ruby (captures bits of time stamps though...) [lL]ine \d highlight line numbers in python

I bet there are more creative uses. please enlighten me.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by ricardobeat » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:12 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #9

to HN: What changed you from "terminal.app is good enough" to "I prefer iTerm"? Because that's what I'm asking myself.

Better mouse cursor support, split panes, cmd+click to open file path.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by roeme » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:12 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #9

to HN: What changed you from "terminal.app is good enough" to "I prefer iTerm"? Because that's what I'm asking myself.

I second this. I'm using Terminal.app for years now, dabbled with iTerm from time to time, but just couldn't see any advantage; since Terminal.app allows me to save window layouts and customize colors - so far, it's all I need from my Terminal emulator. The rest is the shell's job.

So what is it?

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by Kiro » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:18 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #9

to HN: What changed you from "terminal.app is good enough" to "I prefer iTerm"? Because that's what I'm asking myself.

Split panes and broadcasting.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by itafroma » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:18 AM UTC

Dang, looks like there/s still no preference to disable creating a new window when iTerm launches or is clicked on in the Dock. I only ever use iTerm via system-wide hotkey (i.e. Quake-style HUD mode), and it's kind of annoying that it automatically creates a duplicate window whenever it launches that can't be hidden via the hotkey.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by PaulMest » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:20 AM UTC

One feature I really wish iTerm2 2.0 would have introduced was better session restoration support. With Terminal.app, you can issue a command like 'ls' and then quit and re-open Terminal.app and the previous output from 'ls' shows up. This is incredibly useful when you have to restart or if your system crashes and you have some output that you wanted to preserve.

I see from the changelog that some type of restoration has been included: "Support for OS 10.7 features including fullscreen, retina graphics, and window restoration"... but upon actually trying it out, it doesn't do what Terminal.app does.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by gpvos » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:21 AM UTC

duskwuff wrote: post #6

beltex wrote: post #3

Awesome, congrats on the release! Aside: Check For Update... still gives 1.0.0.20140629 as the latest version. Have to download a 2.0 build explicitly. http://www.iterm2.com/downloads.html

You have to switch off development releases to get 2.0.

That's pretty backwards.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by adamors » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:24 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #9

to HN: What changed you from "terminal.app is good enough" to "I prefer iTerm"? Because that's what I'm asking myself.

I switched because of the Yakuake/Guake/Quake 3 console like functionality it has. I don't live in the terminal but need it constantly, hitting is easier than ⌘-Tab-ing until I find the right window.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by johncoltrane » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:24 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #9

to HN: What changed you from "terminal.app is good enough" to "I prefer iTerm"? Because that's what I'm asking myself.

I switched to iTerm.app at the same time I switched to Vim only because Terminal.app didn't support 256 colors at the time. Although Terminal.app now supports 256 colors (it's been 3 years) I got used to iTerm.app and just keep using it out of habit.