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Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by ghshephard »

clin_ wrote: post #42
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…

You can get session management by using tmux integration. Terminal.app almost certainly does not do what you're describing by default.

tmux doesn't help you in this scenario, because the tmux process is lost during a system reboot. I concur with the parent - Terminal.App's ability to restore the previous sessions output after a system crash (which on my macbook Air ranges from daily to weekly - FTDI USB Drivers and Display Port cable being to the two major reason) really make me appreciate that feature.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by lukasm »

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…

Agree. Session restoration is really great. I would go further, though. I use `source` for virtualenv and it would be awesome if terminal could restore that as well.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by jacobolus »

klausa wrote: post #47
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.

I use Terminal almost exclusively in full-screen mode, and iTerm allows me to do just that. And no, Terminal.app does not have full-screen mode that is useful. Lion-style fullscreen apps are absolutely useless to me, since you can't bind them to ctrl-[1-9] hotkeys to switch between spaces.

paulrov (sibling to this comment): you seem to be hellbanned.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by gitaarik »

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.

- Good fullscreen support. Normal terminal can only go into "Lion fullscreen" which means it will be on a separate workspace and you can't have other windows besides it. - Configurable keyboard shortcuts

That's reason enough for me...

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by crucialfelix »

INTPenis wrote: post #17
voltagex_ wrote: post #8

The tmux integration is a really interesting piece of work. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABI0kqUUxoAjxhWW3AsWFis6... http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration

Yes it's technically interesting but am I alone in thinking that it sort of defeats the purpose of using tmux in the first place? I use tmux partly because I come from a background of low resources, but also because I want my essential tools to use as little resources as possible so that they always work as well as possible on any system. Yet iTerm proposes that you use their GUI tabs, split their GUI terminals inste…

but the scroll wheel finally works

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by cooper12 »

mooism2 wrote: post #56
voltagex_ wrote: post #8

The tmux integration is a really interesting piece of work. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABI0kqUUxoAjxhWW3AsWFis6... http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration

Does tmux integrate with itself? That is, does this solve the problem of needing different prefix keys when nesting tmux sessions (whether using iTerm2, or using a terminal emulator that doesn't itself integrate with tmux)?

I thought that, when nesting tmux instances, you just press the prefix key a number of times depending on how deep you need you need your next keystroke to propagate?

For me personally, I use ctrl-a instead of ctrl-b so I have this line in my ~/.tmux.conf:

    #send prefix to nested sessions with C-a    
    bind-key C-a send-prefix
Lastly, iterm2 uses it's own keystrokes for it's tmux integration. (i.e.: cmd-D to split vertically)

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by jsmeaton »

girvo wrote: post #12
joshpadnick wrote: post #10

First, thanks for releasing this! Second, silly question, but what is the recommended way to navigate long commands? Is there a way to click my cursor to a specific point, or a keyboard shortcut to navigate large blocks of words? I tried OPTION+LEFT-CLICK, but sometimes it will have the effect of moving my history to the current command.

I have Alt + Left and Alt + Right set to send `^[ b` and `^[ f` which are set to move backwards one word in most readline-based apps (IIRC).

Thank you so much. I lost this feature with my new machine and I was sure it used to work.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by nicholassmith »

ghshephard wrote: post #61
clin_ wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get session management by using tmux integration. Terminal.app almost certainly does not do what you're describing by default.

tmux doesn't help you in this scenario, because the tmux process is lost during a system reboot. I concur with the parent - Terminal.App's ability to restore the previous sessions output after a system crash (which on my macbook Air ranges from daily to weekly - FTDI USB Drivers and Display Port cable being to the two major reason) really make me appreciate that feature.

"FTDI USB Drivers", if it's the VCP ones the very latest ones have been reasonably stable for me. I've not had a system crash for quite a while now, whereas I was having them weekly with an older version.

Re: ITerm2 2.0

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Post by orkoden »

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.
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