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iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by jarpineh »

gnachman wrote: post #6

(author here). I pushed out a promotion today to let users know about the new version before auto-updating everyone. It breaks backward compatibility with applescript, so it'll be a rough upgrade for some folks. I'd love to hear any thoughts on how to make this less painful. My first experiment with in-app advertising (promoting the beta version through a popup dialog) has gone well, with a 31% click-through rate, an…

I've been on 2.9 series for few months now, since this appeared on HN, so sadly nothing new here... [1] I had such a great time getting to know these features then.

I haven't noticed any instabilities, and new features have been working great. I've yet to learn to use shell integration (muscle memory is a hard thing to forget), but using full screen shell with insivible tabs and the "quake shell" that's similarly full screen has made a really big difference for the better.

Syncing profile settings between computers could work without user action. Now I got automatic import and export when I restart iTerm. Changes I make on one machine tend to stay there, till I remember to restart, and by then I usually have changed something else on the other machine.

So thank you very much for the most useful software on my mac! I have to get get Paypal for donation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9880694

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by TomAnthony »

benjah wrote: post #16
gnachman wrote: post #6

(author here). I pushed out a promotion today to let users know about the new version before auto-updating everyone. It breaks backward compatibility with applescript, so it'll be a rough upgrade for some folks. I'd love to hear any thoughts on how to make this less painful. My first experiment with in-app advertising (promoting the beta version through a popup dialog) has gone well, with a 31% click-through rate, an…

This looks great. Will applescript support be coming back? I'm using consular iterm to start and stop projects. https://github.com/achiu/consular-iterm Can anyone recommend another macro tool that can set up a bunch of processes running in tabs?

Hey - I wrote one for iTerm called iTermocil:

https://github.com/TomAnthony/itermocil

Yiu can use teamocil style files to configures panes/tabs and starting commands for each pane.

Let me know how you find it! :)

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by erikb »

There are a lot of people expressing their love for the tool but until now I fail to see why. "Love" is not a good enough reason for me to exchange a seemingly good enough standard tool with something else. Also the situations in which I want to optimize the Terminal are few. Right now I can only think about copy&paste and as far as I can tell that is solved in the standard terminal already.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by bentrevor »

jpsim wrote: post #33

I'm sure I'm missing iTerm2's big appeal, but every time I try to use it, I find myself going back to Terminal.app, which I find more responsive and just as featureful, especially when combined with zsh and a windowing manager. That's probably just because I'm familiar with it and I didn't come from tmux or anything similar, but I keep hoping I'll be "enlightened" at some point and realize the error of my ways ;)

I usually use iTerm2, but I tried to switch to Terminal the other day because I noticed how much more responsive it is. There were a couple small things that kept me with iTerm2:

- Both let you set the cursor color, but Terminal doesn't let you set the cursor text color, which is a small annoyance.

- Terminal's full-screen goes into a separate desktop, but iTerm2 lets you disable Lion-style full-screen - another small annoyance.

- The only real deal-breaker for me was that I couldn't get Ctrl-/ working for Terminal (it's what I use for "undo" in emacs and readline).

Even with these things, I tried for a while to get Terminal set up - the faster refresh rate makes it look _really_ smooth compared to iTerm2.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by sohooo »

dtf wrote: post #184
tracker1 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed... It's a really nice, smooth experience... ConEmu is close, but not quite the same in Windows, and I haven't seen anything that even compares in Linux.

I'm a Linux user, and I use iTerm when I'm on a Mac and ConEmu on Windows. Are there some features I'm missing out on?

Did you try http://cmder.net ?

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by dtf »

sohooo wrote: post #217
dtf wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a Linux user, and I use iTerm when I'm on a Mac and ConEmu on Windows. Are there some features I'm missing out on?

Did you try http://cmder.net ?

ConEmu + Clink... and it looks so pretty. Thanks, will give it a go!

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by coldtea »

schlomok wrote: post #88
coldtea wrote: post #55

I've been trying iTerm on and off (sometimes using it for months) but always went back to the Terminal. So far, this release seems it will finally make me switch.

What was your justification for going back? This is the first I've heard anyone say they went back to Terminal, so I'm pretty curious.

Generally found it slower (dealing with text etc), some term behaviors were incompatible, etc.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by DonHopkins »

panamafrank wrote: post #177
gnachman wrote: post #6

(author here). I pushed out a promotion today to let users know about the new version before auto-updating everyone. It breaks backward compatibility with applescript, so it'll be a rough upgrade for some folks. I'd love to hear any thoughts on how to make this less painful. My first experiment with in-app advertising (promoting the beta version through a popup dialog) has gone well, with a 31% click-through rate, an…

I did try ITerm2 out for a long time but I found it dramatically reduced the battery life of (newish) macbook, I'd get perhaps 2 hours less per charge, as a result i've switched back to Terminal and using MouseTerm for scrolling in vim. Have you looked into ITerms' performance in comparison to Terminal?

Maybe it's because you're getting so much more work done! ;)
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