ITerm2 1.0 Released

#1

Post by creativeembassy » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:41 PM UTC

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

#2

Post by creativeembassy » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:46 PM UTC

I've been using this replacement for Terminal.app while it's been in beta, and it's fantastic. It natively supports splitting, windowing, and tabs, and it has great keyboard shortcuts for navigation between all of your windows. It also has fullscreen mode (and top-of-screen mode) if you like to dedicate a Space to it. There's a Solarized theme for it if you're into that sort of thing. It supports Growl if you can't stand not being bugged about unnecessary information (or you can turn it off if you're the productive type).

This is the very first thing I install on a new Mac for development. I highly recommend it.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

#3

Post by nicksergeant » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:25 PM UTC

creativeembassy wrote: post #2

I've been using this replacement for Terminal.app while it's been in beta, and it's fantastic. It natively supports splitting, windowing, and tabs, and it has great keyboard shortcuts for navigation between all of your windows. It also has fullscreen mode (and top-of-screen mode) if you like to dedicate a Space to it. There's a Solarized theme for it if you're into that sort of thing. It supports Growl if you can't s…

Wow, I had absolutely no idea iTerm did window splitting natively. I had been using dvtm for a while. Thanks for the tip!

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by xer0x » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:25 PM UTC

+1. This is a great OSX terminal app. I love how quickly it has grown and improved.

I encourage more folks to try it out. You'll love the color themes, split windows, built-in visor hot-keys, and more.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by phlyingpenguin » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

Is there a changelog somewhere obvious that I'm missing? It appears I've gone from 0.20 to 1.0, what am I getting here? The one in the source tree appears to be quite out of date.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

#6

Post by creativeembassy » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:30 PM UTC

phlyingpenguin wrote: post #5

Is there a changelog somewhere obvious that I'm missing? It appears I've gone from 0.20 to 1.0, what am I getting here? The one in the source tree appears to be quite out of date.

I believe most of the features in their feature list were added since 0.2. I'm reading this now, and finding features that I've been needing and didn't realize they were done already.

http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

#7

Post by peterb » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:35 PM UTC

ITerm2 combined with zsh and oh-my-zsh gives you super powers.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

#8

Post by ahmetalpbalkan » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:47 PM UTC

I love iTERM!

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by TylerE » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:48 PM UTC

Does the font rendering seem very different to anyone else? Using the same font (Anonymous Pro 14pt), I had to increase the vertical spacing from 1.0 (as it was in iTerm) to ~1.18 to get the same spacing. Bold is rendered differently (worse) too. It does seem quite a bit snappier on my old G5 though.

Comparison shot: iTerm on the left, iterm2 on right: http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by cschmidt » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:50 PM UTC

nicksergeant wrote: post #3

creativeembassy wrote: post #2

I've been using this replacement for Terminal.app while it's been in beta, and it's fantastic. It natively supports splitting, windowing, and tabs, and it has great keyboard shortcuts for navigation between all of your windows. It also has fullscreen mode (and top-of-screen mode) if you like to dedicate a Space to it. There's a Solarized theme for it if you're into that sort of thing. It supports Growl if you can't s…

Wow, I had absolutely no idea iTerm did window splitting natively. I had been using dvtm for a while. Thanks for the tip!

Notice that this is iTerm2, which I believe is a fork of iTerm, further developed by different people than the original iTerm.