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ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by deweller »

I'd like to try iTerm2, but "groups" in Terminal.app is a must-have feature for me.

Anyone know of a workaround for iTerm2 that will let me save a group of windows and starting commands?

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by tednaleid »

tptacek wrote: post #23

I wasn't a fan of iTerm "1". What's new in 2? Someone got a summary? I don't see it on their site.

I switched to terminal from iTerm 1. I switched to iTerm 2 from terminal because of:

- true split windows (cmd-d horizontal, cmd-shift-d vertical), as many as you can fit

- good split window navigation (cmd-opt-arrow)

- "save" window split setup - cmd-shift-s to save, cmd-shift-r to restore

- better search, all from the command line

- full 256 color support without any hacks

- copy to clipboard on selection option (similar to windows shell if you're familiar with that)

- fullscreen mode with cmd-enter

- better speed than iTerm 1 (comparable to terminal, the reason I switched to it in the first place)

(I don't think I've remapped the above keys, but if I have, easy key remapping is another nice thing about iTerm2 :)

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by shabble »

angerman wrote: post #12

Awesome! iTerm + zsh... If only I could disable the scrollbar :/ On a related note, is there a show/hide animation like Visor too? I liked the "slide in/slide out" animation a lot.

The visor-like mode is enabled if you dock it to a window-edge (prefs->profile->window tab, 'style = top of screen' setting). System-wide hotkey settings are in Prefs->Keys

There's also a 'hidden' setting for the animation delay, settable with

`defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 HotkeyTermAnimationDuration \ -float 0.25`

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by tomislav »

niels_olson wrote: post #31

some other resources for those interested in terminal apps, what are some others? Guake: http://guake.org/ Yakuake: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29153 Visor: http://visor.binaryage.com/ SIMBL: http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php Solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Solarized color theme for OS X Lion Terminal.app: https://github.com/tomislav/osx-lion-terminal.app-colors-sol...

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

#45

Post by shabble »

deweller wrote: post #41

I'd like to try iTerm2, but "groups" in Terminal.app is a must-have feature for me. Anyone know of a workaround for iTerm2 that will let me save a group of windows and starting commands?

There's Applescript support, so you could probably cobble together a script that'd launch your multiple windows & commands.

There's also Window->Save Window Arrangement, but I believe that only allows for a single arrangement.

Feel free to add a feature request at http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/list (There's plans for eventually moving everything over to github, but the issues will get migrated too)

I'm working on improving the preferences UI and back-end, but I'm learning obj-c and Cocoa as I go, so it's a slowish process :)

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by ulvund »

jharding wrote: post #13
xer0x wrote: post #4

+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.

I downloaded iTerm2 about 20 minutes ago and I already love it. Anybody know of any downsides of using it over Terminal.app?

I have a hard time changing functionality of the alt key between alt and meta. I Terminal.app I just go to preferences and it is there. Here it takes a little more..

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by minimax »

tptacek wrote: post #23

I wasn't a fan of iTerm "1". What's new in 2? Someone got a summary? I don't see it on their site.

The key binding configuration makes it pretty straightforward to use command as meta for things like bash readline without changing it system wide or a using separate key remapping program (a la keyremap4macbook). I also find the ability to pass messages to growl via escape sequences to be quite handy.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

#49

Post by shabble »

jcoder wrote: post #28

I just think it's interesting that iTerm2 has one author, but iterm2.com has three.

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/Credits has a comprehensive list of contributors, but (I think) the fork from iTerm to iTerm2 and vast majority of the development has been done by George.

Regarding the website, I'd guess a couple of people volunteered to make it shiny and accessible, but the docs and whatnot were (and mostly still are) on the googlecode project wiki.

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