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Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by danudey »

akerl_ wrote: post #212
Igglyboo wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? This attitude seriously needs to die.

The open source community cannot simultaneously use "anybody can fix bugs and add features" as one of their loudest pitches and then get offended when people suggest doing so. Either being able to dive in and fix it yourself is an edge case or it is not.

Being able to dive in and fix it yourself is definitely an edge case. Even among people who use terminals, I don't know that many who are able or willing, or who have the time or energy, to learn the codebase enough to add a feature.

'The open-source community' isn't pitching this idea and also rejecting it. 'Tone-deaf open-source proponents' are pitching it (or, in this case, suggesting it, and rudely) and regular, well-socialized people are criticizing it as a good idea poorly said.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by akerl_ »

danudey wrote: post #231
akerl_ wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The open source community cannot simultaneously use "anybody can fix bugs and add features" as one of their loudest pitches and then get offended when people suggest doing so. Either being able to dive in and fix it yourself is an edge case or it is not.

Being able to dive in and fix it yourself is definitely an edge case. Even among people who use terminals, I don't know that many who are able or willing, or who have the time or energy, to learn the codebase enough to add a feature. 'The open-source community' isn't pitching this idea and also rejecting it. 'Tone-deaf open-source proponents' are pitching it (or, in this case, suggesting it, and rudely) and regular,…

Both those groups of people comprise 'the open source community'.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by goblin89 »

tinco wrote: post #86
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…

Not just fast scrolling text. For some reason there is a noticeable delay when just typing text into a shell in iTerm. I didn't notice it until one day I started Terminal.app for no reason at all, and typing in it gave me that feeling that it was predicting my keystrokes, meaning of course that my brain expected a lag that wasn't there.

After this thread I've updated iTerm2 to 2.0… and switched back to Terminal. I couldn't believe I could forget about such lag throughout my work.

On the other hand, such lag is ever-present with SSH—and now it will subjectively increase as I get used to Terminal again.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by goblin89 »

err4nt wrote: post #110
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.

I might have a workaround for you! I use a launcher for OS X called 'Quicksilver'. It's free and absolutely changed the way I approach computing (at the speed of thought, not the speed I can aim and click icons on my screen) and one of the handiest features Quicksilver let's you configure is called 'triggers'. Triggers are system-wide shortcuts that run a quicksilver command. So I have a quicksilver trigger for EVERY…

> Any time I hit my special trigger key combination, it will 'launch' that app. If it is open it gives it focus, and if it is not running it opens the app. This means I can rearrange my apps and desktops however I like and I always instantly travel to the app I want next.

What if I have 6 full-screen Terminal windows (connected to SSH servers, tmux sessions, and so on), and I need to switch between them? Your comment prompted me to install Quicksilver, but it doesn't seem like it can handle that. I'd be glad to hear if I'm wrong.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by sjm »

pyre wrote: post #157

"Check for Update" from the menu in iTerm tells me: iTerm 1.0.0.20140629 is currently the newest version available.

As mentioned above, in Preferences -> General, untick "Prompt for test-release updates", then run a check for updates again.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by itazula »

nileshk wrote: post #134
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.

It was a very basic thing that caused me to switch: Being able to use Cmd-1, Cmd-2, Cmd-3, etc to switch tabs (Terminal.app only does this for windows, not tabs).

I don't recall doing anything special, but on Mac OS X 10.8.5, I use CMD-SHIFT-Arrow (left or right arrow) to move from tab to tab.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by welldan97 »

tlrobinson wrote: post #202

Is there a good tiling window manager for OS X that has a feature like iTerm2 where I can drag and drop a tab on top of another to split it, and keep those windows together? I use Moom (previously Divvy) but they only really give you hotkeys for moving windows around. Xmonad for OS X seems difficult to setup, and I'm not even sure if it does what I want.

Did you try Amethyst(http://ianyh.com/amethyst/)? So far I was happy with it.
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