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Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by draebek »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #140
kator wrote: post #135

I love iTerm, couldn't live without it.. To me Terminal.app isn't much better then PuTTY on Windows. That said I'm a bit worried when I read stuff like "manipulate the pasteboard remotely" and "performed when text matching a regular expression is received". Are these potential security concerns and/or what is the performance impact of regex'ing every single line of text etc?

Naive question, but I keep trying iTerm and not being able to quite figure out why I should switch. In the mid-2000s it was a much better program than Terminal.app, but that doesn't seem to have been true for quite some time. Terminal.app has tabs, 256-color mode, themes, full screen support, and as people have mentioned in other comments, session recovery and much better performance. The only things I can think of o…

iTerm's "copy on select" functionality is a killer feature for me, painfully absent in Terminal.app.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by gnachman »

nasalgoat wrote: post #179

I'm still using version 1 of iTerm because it has the side dock menu, which allows me to maintain a list of the various servers I'd want to connect to, and allows me to close sublists I don't need to see. The last time I looked at iTerm2 it had a separate window where you had to TYPE the name of the server you wanted, which is WAY more work than pointing and clicking a single name in a side list. The developers seeme…

Yeah, hierarchical tree-views suck. In the nightly builds (soon to be betas for v3) tags can define a hierarchy by including slashes in their names. They're also browsable in the toolbelt, which is just like 0.10's side-window. It's mighty close to what you were used to.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by nasalgoat »

gnachman wrote: post #182
nasalgoat wrote: post #179

I'm still using version 1 of iTerm because it has the side dock menu, which allows me to maintain a list of the various servers I'd want to connect to, and allows me to close sublists I don't need to see. The last time I looked at iTerm2 it had a separate window where you had to TYPE the name of the server you wanted, which is WAY more work than pointing and clicking a single name in a side list. The developers seeme…

Yeah, hierarchical tree-views suck. In the nightly builds (soon to be betas for v3) tags can define a hierarchy by including slashes in their names. They're also browsable in the toolbelt, which is just like 0.10's side-window. It's mighty close to what you were used to.

I see the Toolbelt - I'll try it out and see if it gives me similar functionality. iTerm 1 has a ton of bugs that bother me so upgrading would be nice.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by to3m »

orkoden wrote: post #70
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.

Vertical and horizontal splitting. This gives me several side by side terminals in one window.

This has always kept me coming back to iTerm. (The configurable word separators is handy too. Obviously the people that work on Terminal.app don't have many files with hyphens in them, but I seem to have loads.)

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by driverdan »

kator wrote: post #148
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Naive question, but I keep trying iTerm and not being able to quite figure out why I should switch. In the mid-2000s it was a much better program than Terminal.app, but that doesn't seem to have been true for quite some time. Terminal.app has tabs, 256-color mode, themes, full screen support, and as people have mentioned in other comments, session recovery and much better performance. The only things I can think of o…

I'm in a shell most of my day when not in meetings. I love being able to have a nice full screen with vertical and horizontal splits (Cmd-D or Shift-Cmd-D) with thin lines between each split. Also iTerm helps me keep my hand off my mouse and when I do use my mouse iTerm makes my usage very efficient (double click to copy text .. Cmd-V paste, right-click lots of stuff right in your face on the spot..) I'm less about t…

tmux supports everything you just described.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by IgorPartola »

gnachman wrote: post #158
IgorPartola wrote: post #150

So did everyone here just download this piece of software over HTTP (no HTTPS)? Why is it that large projects like this cannot spend 15 minutes setting up hosting over HTTPS-only using a $10 (or even free) SSL cert? I love me some iTerm but yikers.

I've been putting this off for too long. Waiting to get the cert signed now...

Thank you! That's awesome. I'll put it on my TODO to send you $10 in the next week or so for the cost of the cert.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#188

Post by ghshephard »

bydo wrote: post #118
ghshephard wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope - I'm on the latest 2.2.18 drivers still flakey as can be - This has been an ongoing issue for me for about two years - it's a pain when you are working on a Cisco Router, and you unplug the cable and kernel panic. I guess on the (weirdly?) pro side, it's at least fairly consistent - about 20% of the time, the Macbook (two generations now for me, 2010, and 2013) kernel panics. This is where Terminal.app (or poss…

I don't know what sort of serial adapter you're using, but I've used a number of the PL2303-based ones over the years (currently a Trendnet TU-S9), and have never had them cause any sort of instability. Weird.

I've never found any one particular USB-Serial Adapter to be any more reliable with the FTDI drivers on the Mac. Currently using the Tripp Lite Keyspan, Model USA-49WG, SKU CU8037. Appears on the USB chain as: Product ID: 0x0131, Vendor ID: 0x06CD.

I carry a Dell Laptop when going to customer sites+Putty for consoling into Cisco Routers because I've never found a Serial Cable/USB combination that doesn't cause the Macbook air to Kernel Panic.

I'll give the PL-2303 based device a chance - I see there is a nice comparison site here:

http://www.usconverters.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=60

I'll definitely try the Trendnet TU-S9. Here's hoping 4 years of weekly hell on my mac laptop comes to an end...

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by Watabou »

john2x wrote: post #73

I couldn't get the Triggers to work with terminal-notifier[1]. Bug? Or something to do with terminal-notifier? [1]: https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier

Works for me with pync: python -c 'from pync import Notifier; Notifier.notify("hello")'

Re: ITerm2 2.0

#190

Post by ghshephard »

bydo wrote: post #118
ghshephard wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope - I'm on the latest 2.2.18 drivers still flakey as can be - This has been an ongoing issue for me for about two years - it's a pain when you are working on a Cisco Router, and you unplug the cable and kernel panic. I guess on the (weirdly?) pro side, it's at least fairly consistent - about 20% of the time, the Macbook (two generations now for me, 2010, and 2013) kernel panics. This is where Terminal.app (or poss…

I don't know what sort of serial adapter you're using, but I've used a number of the PL2303-based ones over the years (currently a Trendnet TU-S9), and have never had them cause any sort of instability. Weird.

I've never found any one particular USB-Serial Adapter to be any more reliable. Currently using the Tripp Lite Keyspan, Model USA-49WG, SKU CU8037. Appears on the USB chain as: Product ID: 0x0131, Vendor ID: 0x06CD. Still kernel panics when I pull out the USB Cable.

I carry a Dell Laptop when going to customer sites+Putty for consoling into Cisco Routers because I've never found a Serial Cable/USB combination that doesn't cause the Macbook air to Kernel Panic.

I'll give the PL-2303 based device a chance - I see there is a nice comparison site here:

http://www.usconverters.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=60

I'll definitely try the Trendnet TU-S9. Here's hoping 4 years of weekly hell on my mac laptop comes to an end...

But, maybe I'll try upgrading to Mavericks - this seems to suggest that some progress has been made in the FTDI driver department: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2315/_in...

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