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Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by Jgrubb »

crucialfelix wrote: post #66
INTPenis wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

but the scroll wheel finally works

A couple improvements I found in some other HN Tmux thread --

    set -g mode-mouse on

    set -g mouse-resize-pane on

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#92

Post by pornel »

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.

Tons of little nice things:

* search starts from the bottom of the buffer (most recent result).

* I can cmd+click filenames with line number (in error messages) and have them open in my text editor with cursor on the right line.

* notifications when background tab becomes idle - notifies about finished long-running builds/installations, etc.

* much better, customizable keyboard shortcuts. Supports meta keys properly. I have keyboard shortcuts for opening a tabs connected to my servers, disabled annoying "Print" shortcut, etc.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#93

Post by paulrov »

jacobolus wrote: post #64
klausa wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

paulrov (sibling to this comment): you seem to be hellbanned.

Of course I'm hellbanned, it's Hacker News.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#94

Post by afarrell »

riquito wrote: post #51
kybernetyk wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? In your mind a developer can realistically contribute to any possible open source project, whatever the language and the domain? He may have to learn an humongous quantity of things to implement a feature and then never use that knowledge anymore. Founding the project while asking for a feature could be a better advice.

*funding

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#99

Post by meowface »

SingAlong wrote: post #37

If anyone else is wondering where the toolbelt is, once you enable toolbelt with "Toolbelt" -> "Show toolbelt", you'll have to resize the iterm window.

I didn't have to resize anything for it to show up, for whatever reason.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#100

Post by sir-pinecone »

jwr wrote: post #80

ITerm is great. It really is. But I wish more time was spent on optimizations. People these days seem to forget that terminals are often used for displaying huge amounts of rapidly scrolling text and that speed is of paramount importance. To put this in perspective, my computer has two CPUs with 4 cores each, 24GB RAM, a graphics card with 1600 Stream Processing Units (engine running at 850MHz) and 1GB of RAM, and ye…

This might be an unrelated problem, but I find that when I copy a large amount of text and paste it into iTerm, it takes a long time to paste. This often happens when pasting into Vim, so it could be a vim issue. For example, copying the code of a Javascript library. When I do this in a text editor outside of iTerm, it's nearly instantaneous.
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