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Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by ansimionescu »

PaulMest wrote: post #27

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…

I wish tabs would have separate (non-shared) history. I did try this [0] but it doesn't work all the time (!?).

0: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/75571/the-history-i...

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by clin_ »

PaulMest wrote: post #27

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…

You can get session management by using tmux integration.

Terminal.app almost certainly does not do what you're describing by default.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#43

Post by itafroma »

sk_ wrote: post #38
itafroma wrote: post #26

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.

It doesn't do that for me. Whenever I click on the dock icon or fire it up via spotlight, iTerm goes in the foreground, but there is no duplicate windows created.

Odd: I wonder what about your configuration differs from mine. I'd love to fix that once and for all.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by boomlinde »

INTPenis wrote: post #17
voltagex_ wrote: post #8

The tmux integration is a really interesting piece of work. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABI0kqUUxoAjxhWW3AsWFis6... http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration

Yes it's technically interesting but am I alone in thinking that it sort of defeats the purpose of using tmux in the first place? I use tmux partly because I come from a background of low resources, but also because I want my essential tools to use as little resources as possible so that they always work as well as possible on any system. Yet iTerm proposes that you use their GUI tabs, split their GUI terminals inste…

If your main purpose for using tmux is sparing resources, then sure, but I think most people use tmux for session management, persistence and multiplexing. If I can use these features in a way that is better integrated with the windowing system, and still be able to attach to the session from a plain terminal remotely, I'm not going to complain.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#45

Post by LeoPanthera »

clin_ wrote: post #42
PaulMest wrote: post #27

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…

You can get session management by using tmux integration. Terminal.app almost certainly does not do what you're describing by default.

> Terminal.app almost certainly does not do what you're describing by default.

Yes, it does. http://i.imgur.com/kYmlBk8.png

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by klausa »

PaulMest wrote: post #27

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…

I assume it pertains to Lion-style window restoration. Before 10.7, when you restarted your computer, you had to open each and every app (and every window!) again.

Since 10.7, system (assuming the app cooperates, that is) does that for you and reopens everything.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by klausa »

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 use Terminal almost exclusively in full-screen mode, and iTerm allows me to do just that.

And no, Terminal.app does not have full-screen mode that is useful. Lion-style fullscreen apps are absolutely useless to me, since you can't bind them to ctrl-[1-9] hotkeys to switch between spaces.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by kybernetyk »

PaulMest wrote: post #27

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…

> One feature I really wish ...

It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself?

I wanted a borderless terminal and as I couldn't find one I hacked the functionality into iTerm: http://i.imgur.com/jOc04sf.jpg

/edit: Wow, being downvoted for suggesting to hack something yourself on Hacker News ... that's a new one. I guess I'll take a time out.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by __david__ »

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.

The built-in tmux session stuff is fabulous. Makes me never want to use normal tmux again.

I also quite like that iTerm allows non-Lion full screen mode. That combined with some tasteful transparency lets me see stuff happening while I'm poking around at the command line. It's nice to visually see the result of a Control-C or the relaunching of a web server.

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