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Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by swift »

gnachman wrote: post #161
PaulMest wrote: post #27

One feature I really wish iTerm2 2.0 would have introduced was better session restoration support. With Terminal.app, you can issue a command like 'ls' and then quit and re-open Terminal.app and the previous output from 'ls' shows up. This is incredibly useful when you have to restart or if your system crashes and you have some output that you wanted to preserve. I see from the changelog that some type of restoration…

Nope, no restoration support yet. I'm concerned about the performance hit.

I can see it being a performance issue if you need to fsync session updates to disk constantly, but personally I'd be pretty much happy if the session was only saved at normal shutdown. Maybe saving it after a certain idle period would also be useful.

Would that mitigate your performance concerns, or did I not guess the source of the issue correctly?

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by akerl_ »

Igglyboo wrote: post #197
kybernetyk wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One feature I really wish ... It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? I wanted a borderless terminal and as I couldn't find one I hacked the functionality into iTerm: http://i.imgur.com/jOc04sf.jpg /edit: Wow, being downvoted for suggesting to hack something yourself on Hacker News ... that's a new one. I guess I'll take a time out.

> 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.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by lobster_johnson »

deepGem wrote: post #205
lobster_johnson wrote: post #203

iTerm looks nice, but is there a reason to switch from Terminal.app? The "jobs" sidebar looked great until I discovered that it only works for local processes, for example. Generally, it seems there is a lot of room for improvement in terminal apps these days: - Probably upwards of 90% of my terminal work involves SSH, and it seems like a huge missed opportunity not to integrate with SSH in any significant way. iTerm…

For managing SSH connections have you tried the profiles on iTerm ? It's not exactly what you are looking for but might at least save you from repetitive typing.

That doesn't solve the problem of having to create each one manually, when there is a perfectly good list (known_hosts) lying around. I have several dozens hosts I connect to almost daily.

(Yes, I do use tools like Puppet and dsh for configuration management, and probably should use them more, but sometimes you have to get your hands dirty.)

Unfortunately iTerm's solution is even less useful than Terminal's remote connections, since in iTerm each profile have associated settings like colours and cursor type, things which should be the same across all connections.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by ryanobjc »

riquito wrote: post #51
kybernetyk wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One feature I really wish ... It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? I wanted a borderless terminal and as I couldn't find one I hacked the functionality into iTerm: http://i.imgur.com/jOc04sf.jpg /edit: Wow, being downvoted for suggesting to hack something yourself on Hacker News ... that's a new one. I guess I'll take a time out.

> It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? In your mind a developer can realistically contribute to any possible open source project, whatever the language and the domain? He may have to learn an humongous quantity of things to implement a feature and then never use that knowledge anymore. Founding the project while asking for a feature could be a better advice.

*he ?

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by ajtaylor »

kator wrote: post #207
ajtaylor wrote: post #198

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If I could ask an unrelated question, what are you using to power 2 external monitors on your MBP? I have a 30" monitor at $work, but a pair of smaller monitors would be even better.

Modern MBP's have two thunderbolt plugs.. Thunderbolt to DVI to two Dell U2412M's makes for a nice dev environment if you spend a lot of time in terminals.

Ahhh, that would make it simple! I was hoping you were going to recommend a device that would make it work for my single Thunderbolt port MBP.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by 72deluxe »

riquito wrote: post #51
kybernetyk wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One feature I really wish ... It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? I wanted a borderless terminal and as I couldn't find one I hacked the functionality into iTerm: http://i.imgur.com/jOc04sf.jpg /edit: Wow, being downvoted for suggesting to hack something yourself on Hacker News ... that's a new one. I guess I'll take a time out.

> It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? In your mind a developer can realistically contribute to any possible open source project, whatever the language and the domain? He may have to learn an humongous quantity of things to implement a feature and then never use that knowledge anymore. Founding the project while asking for a feature could be a better advice.

Wouldn't the learning be interesting though?

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by 72deluxe »

kybernetyk wrote: post #48
PaulMest wrote: post #27

One feature I really wish iTerm2 2.0 would have introduced was better session restoration support. With Terminal.app, you can issue a command like 'ls' and then quit and re-open Terminal.app and the previous output from 'ls' shows up. This is incredibly useful when you have to restart or if your system crashes and you have some output that you wanted to preserve. I see from the changelog that some type of restoration…

> One feature I really wish ... It's open source. Why don't you add it yourself? I wanted a borderless terminal and as I couldn't find one I hacked the functionality into iTerm: http://i.imgur.com/jOc04sf.jpg /edit: Wow, being downvoted for suggesting to hack something yourself on Hacker News ... that's a new one. I guess I'll take a time out.

Errr are you running the Yosemite beta? I love the dark menu bars.

How do you find it? Do you find the kindergarten icon colours irritating? What about the blurriness? Do you feel like you've switch to varifocal lenses and are constantly rubbing your eyes?

What about the lack of Maximise/Zoom button? I don't want everything fullscreen - the menubar has MenuMeters running in it and a clock which you can't see in Fullscreen mode. I use ShiftIt to maximise the window when Zoom is being dumb and fear for my future with this insane "maximise" button removal.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by rplnt »

kator wrote: post #206
philsnow wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PuTTY on windows is a fantastic terminal emulator, certainly the best one available for windows that I'm aware of. Despite all the configurability, it still feels quite minimalistic. A single fullscreen PuTTY window is my favorite way to use a windows machine.

Booting a Linux install disk is my favorite way to use a Windows machine.. ;-) Just kidding, I love PuTTY in windows but it's not my favorite emulator. I actually enjoyed Centry Term's TinyTERM [1] but I have a feeling that is WAY before most people here's time. I still have a couple 3" floppies with TinyTERM on them and a copy of the activation codes. [1] http://www.centurysoftware.com/products/tinyterm-terminal-em.…

You might be kidding, but I actually run VMWare Player with full-screen linux at all times to have a terminal. It's free, switching to VM is simple alt-tab. You can share folders/drives, copy/paste works, it's even accelerated so I can use any "modern" window manager. Only things missing are snapshots, but I don't have those on hardware either. If I need to reboot the host, I can just pause the VM.
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