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Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by amalag »

tern wrote: post #15
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.

FWIW, I've tried switching to iTerm about 3 times and I've always to come back to Terminal.app because it feels more "solid or "native" and it minimizes the installation + configuration I need to do on a new machine to feel comfortable.

Me too, used iTerm but went back to Terminal.app. People are pointing out a few bugs and maybe I will try it, but Terminal is just easy enough.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by acdha »

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…

I've tried iTerm and a few other alternatives periodically over the years and I keep coming back to Terminal.app for performance and stability. It'd be interesting to see how far a performance sprint could take iTerm…

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by acdha »

ibisum wrote: post #72
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 problem I have with this is that its a massive security hole. Where does the output get stored? If its in an encrypted file, okay .. but if not: deal breaker.

1. If you regularly have passwords, keys, PII, etc. in terminal windows, your workflow should change.

2. If you care about security in any way, you should be using FileVault rather than cargo-culting it into apps (there's no way for that "encrypted file" to be secure unless you have to type in a password every time you shut down the system). If you do that, anyone who can read that file has already compromised your account and there's no additional exposure from this.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by cujo »

kybernetyk wrote: post #48
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.

As others have pointed out, it's just an inappropriate comment.

Yes it's open source, and yes, anyone can hack on it themselves. But 99.99999% of the time it's not realistic.

Nearly every piece of software on my computer could be enhanced to fit me personally, but there's no way I could justify the time and energy to work on it. Also, in most cases I have no desire to learn the stack/underpinnings for a particular enhancement.

Lastly, the comment comes off as condescending. Are we really not allowed to wish for things? Must we personally fix everything we find an inconvenience or problem with?

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by biftek »

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 it exclusively for the visor mode. Which I have set up to be like full screen mode on a laptop, but is limited to half the screen when I plug into an external monitor. It's also bound to show/hide on ctrl+`.

Unlike most others it seems, I don't utilize the tmux integration, despite using tmux heavily.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by barbs »

sir-pinecone wrote: post #100
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.

I have the same issue, and I know it doesn't happen when using Macvim, so it's probably an iTerm problem.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by blue6249 »

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.

There is a bug in terminal.app that manifests itself when you ssh to remote servers, launch something like tmux, disconnect, and try to resize the window[0]. The bad part for me is that this happens every time I leave my desk (the terminal resizes to the laptop screen size, and my usb ethernet dongle gets disconnected).

[0] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3690502?start=0&tstart=...

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by dschep »

carlosvega wrote: post #124

How about fish? I would like some of the fish features implemented in iTerm. http://fishshell.com

Fish is a shell & iTerm is a terminal emulator. Just use them together. Or am I missing something?
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