Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

iTerm2 Shell Integration

iterm2.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 102 posts

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#81

Post by DavideNL »

Does this update speed up things as well by any chance?

I like iTerm2 a lot, but one day when i coincidentally started using the normal Terminal i noticed how fast it was/how slow iTerm2 was, which is the reason i stopped using iTerm2 and switched to TotalTerminal (a plugin for Terminal.app).

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#82

Post by xtacy »

I just love iTerm2, but I feel it's slow and unresponsive at times (Garbage Collection?) compared to Apple's Terminal. I still keep using iTerm2 because of its features. If there is any way I can profile these slowness and submit a bug report to have it fixed, please let me know!

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#83

Post by fit2rule »

lemevi wrote: post #74
fit2rule wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is iTerm keeping my history safe? Where is it saved, and how is it kept safe?

Do you think your regular bash history is safe? Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1200/

I don't. Which is why I'm hoping iTerm is different.

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#84

Post by zurn »

hiroprot wrote: post #65

I really like this, but am wondering if something like ZModem over SSH would make the file transfer stuff more convenient...I feel like some things have become more complicated since the BBS days.

Standard ssh protocol supports this already, you can open a file transfer channel on an existing shell connection dynamically.

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#85

Post by [deleted] »

hiroprot wrote: post #65

I really like this, but am wondering if something like ZModem over SSH would make the file transfer stuff more convenient...I feel like some things have become more complicated since the BBS days.

[deleted]

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#86

Post by kolev »

gnachman wrote: post #13

I'm here to answer questions anyone has about this. It's a newish feature so feedback is welcome, and bug reports are greatly appreciated. Also, credit goes to FinalTerm for the inspiration. RIP.

It somehow breaks my virtualenv prompt...

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#87

Post by gnachman »

jakejake wrote: post #71
gnachman wrote: post #13

I'm here to answer questions anyone has about this. It's a newish feature so feedback is welcome, and bug reports are greatly appreciated. Also, credit goes to FinalTerm for the inspiration. RIP.

This looks really cool. One question - if I'm tunneling through one server to the next (required for me to access production servers) does the file upload/download still work?

As long as it's reachable from your client. I answered elsewhere in this thread on how to upload and download if not.

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#88

Post by gnachman »

fit2rule wrote: post #72
gnachman wrote: post #13

I'm here to answer questions anyone has about this. It's a newish feature so feedback is welcome, and bug reports are greatly appreciated. Also, credit goes to FinalTerm for the inspiration. RIP.

Is iTerm keeping my history safe? Where is it saved, and how is it kept safe?

It's stored in ~/Library/Application Support. Whether that's safer than your shell's own history depends on your personal threat model. You can turn off "Prefs>General>Save copy/paste and command history to disk" to disable this if your mac is untrusted.

Re: iTerm2 Shell Integration

#89

Post by gnachman »

xtacy wrote: post #82

I just love iTerm2, but I feel it's slow and unresponsive at times (Garbage Collection?) compared to Apple's Terminal. I still keep using iTerm2 because of its features. If there is any way I can profile these slowness and submit a bug report to have it fixed, please let me know!

I assume you're using 2.9.x here. Try turning off prefs>advanced>avoid repainting the screen when the cursor is hidden. Let me know if that makes a difference.
Post reply on HN