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iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

622 points by rickhanlonii 11y ago

erikb 11y ago
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.
strages 11y ago
It would be great having little video's of each new feature. For example with the automatic profile switching, or the marks/shell integration features.
jgworks 11y ago
A quick and dirty one-liner to pull the newest xkcd: https://gist.github.com/jgworks/5c7bd0f731210133ebd4 https://gist.github.com/jgworks/5c7bd0f731210133ebd4
aethant 11y ago
Loving it so far! Thanks for all your hard work.
pholz 11y ago
great app, i've been using it for a while (i also use terminator on linux). together with homebrew and fish it makes the osx command line experience fantastic!
Philipp__ 11y ago
You guys deserve all the best. Will make the donation soon... (student here) I have never came across terminal app that is working with you... urxvt and many other on Linux were always working against me. This one was drag and drop and it works.
sstanfie 11y ago
I'm sure if you're reading these comments, iTerm is the program you use the most on the Mac. Give George a donation through the Donate button on his site (https://iterm2.com/ https://iterm2.com/) to let him know how much we care about this tool. Takes 10 seconds if you have PayPal.
sstanfie 11y ago
Another suggestion: how about simply calling it "iTerm". This can be version 3. I know "iTerm2" was a fork of the defunct original iTerm. But now that you're pushing through to v3, in kind of makes sense to reclaim the title.
matt_wulfeck 11y ago
Iterm2 was one of those things I was not expecting to miss so much when I switched to a Linux desktop. There's something about the look and feel of text that I'm used too. Don't get me wrong, there's good terminals for Linux, but I think iterm2 was the best. I'd gladly pay for a Linux port.
- forgotpwtomain 11y ago
  Just curious - what features are you missing on Linux that are available on Iterm2? I've used Iterm2 quite a bit and while I think it is more full-featured than my linux terminal, I don't find myself using any features which are not common to both.
- melted 11y ago
  Give Terminator a try.
- suprfnk 11y ago
  > There's something about the look and feel of text that I'm used too. Yeah, font rendering is great out of the box on OS X. However, you can also get that on Linux, using Infinality. Check it out. :)
fmela 11y ago
This is fantastic. I love the new look, and the font rendering seems to be even nicer than before.
- rickhanlonii 11y ago
  Yeah the difference is noticeable: http://dp.hanlon.io/2k2n3G190l2e http://dp.hanlon.io/2k2n3G190l2e
  - reinhardt1053 11y ago
    What color theme is that?
    - rickhanlonii 11y ago
      A blend of Solarized and Intellij Darcula: https://github.com/rickhanlonii/Solarized-Darcula https://github.com/rickhanlonii/Solarized-Darcula
  - ihuman 11y ago
    The link is broken for me
isomorphic 11y ago
I love iTerm2, I keep up with the "current" beta versions, using them all day in production. I would love it if they'd make a "dark" titlebar version of the window chrome. My setup currently has windows without any titlebar at all (thanks to iTerm for that feature!), but it makes rearranging windows challenging. I look forward to trying out the newer features!
- jd3 11y ago
  this is totally feasible with a custom .car file that you can embed into your program. The problem is the titlebar text. I hacked together a working SIMBL script back in the 10.6 days that fixed the problem, but it's probably lost. Interestingly, Apple's current DarkAppearance.car (/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources) that ships (but lies unused) in OS X 10.11.3 suffers from the same problems. You can copy it over into GraphiteAppearance.car to test it out. White titlebar text is still glitched to hell.
- xbryanx 11y ago
  How do you hide the titlebar entirely?
  - highpixels 11y ago
    Preferences > Profile > Window > Style: "No Title Bar" doesn't seem to then be anyway to move the window (just resize from the edges)
    - sikhnerd 11y ago
      Mirroring my sibling comment here, but thanks for the detailed note on how to get rid of the bright white title bar :) As far as resizing goes, I would suggest using one of the many pseudo tiling window managers available on mac. I strongly recommend spectacle [1] [1] https://www.spectacleapp.com/ https://www.spectacleapp.com/
- sikhnerd 11y ago
  Thanks so much for pointing out the ability to hide the titlebar entirely, as I have the same pet peeve :) I would suggest using one of the many pseudo tiling window managers to resize your windows so you don't have that problem. I strongly recommend spectacle [1] [1] https://www.spectacleapp.com/ https://www.spectacleapp.com/
bechampion 11y ago
that is the one thing i miss from osx .. i had all kinds of triggers on screen , specially colouring ip addresses , and urls and guids .. hope it comes to linux one day.
- Tiksi 11y ago
  Probably not the kind of customization most people are looking for, but you can do all that with urxvt extensions: http://jbl.web.cern.ch/jbl/doc/urxvt/ http://jbl.web.cern.ch/jbl/doc/urxvt/ A lot more of a pain in the ass to write extensions from scratch instead of having a UI to configure, especially if you're not big on perl, but there's a good amount of extensions out there that are ready to use as well.
- nothrabannosir 11y ago
  It's been >5y since I used KDE, but iirc the default terminal there had regexp you could set to trigger any action you wanted. And links were automatically clickable. Can anyone running KDE confirm?
  - somebehemoth 11y ago
    I doubt this is helpful, but I tried to find a Linux terminal that was as customizable as iterm2. Konsole was the closest thing I could find. It has a UI to configure many aspects of the terminal. Unfortunately, I'm drawing a blank on triggers at the moment. I still think iterm2 is way better but konsole is really really customizable.
- jsz0 11y ago
  For colorizing output check out grc https://github.com/pengwynn/grc https://github.com/pengwynn/grc
  - bechampion 11y ago
    cheers mate
gnachman 11y ago
(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, and of those 25% downloaded the beta.
- maratc 11y ago
  George, huge thanks for your work. Please consider putting iTerm2 on the App Store for a couple of bucks (in addition to providing it for free on your site).
  - deckiedan 11y ago
    I think the App Store Sandbox would restrict iTerm's ability to be useful. (Can only access files it has created, or via a standard OSX file open dialog, for instance.)
- pheoki 11y ago
  ITerm 2 is my absolute favourite piece of software I've ever used. It's a delight to work with. Thank you so much for your work!
- namtrac 11y ago
  This is the only app I miss on Linux, kudos!
- jarpineh 11y ago
  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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9880694
iso-8859-1 11y ago
There is already the need for standardization on inline images, as notty uses another approach than iTerm2, which uses another approach than Terminology.
- cargen 11y ago
  xterm can do inline graphics too, in the form of Sixel for raster graphics and ReGIS for vector graphics. At least those are sort of standard, in that they were used by real terminals and there are real specs for them. The annoying thing is, even if terminals standardized on one protocol, none of them set $TERM or use terminfo properly. So there's no good way for programs to actually use these features, because you don't know if you're running in a terminal that supports them, or which escape codes to send to make use of them.
  - tatterdemalion 11y ago
    > The annoying thing is, even if terminals standardized on one protocol, none of them set $TERM or use terminfo properly. This is why notty _does_ set $TERM and has a terminfo sheet.
  - jsmthrowaway 11y ago
    > none of them set $TERM or use terminfo properly. There's a reason for this, and it's because a lot of things assume certain values for $TERM and completely go to shit when it's something else. In addition, who actually sets $TERM is an open question depending on the architecture of the system you are talking to (and the manner in which you logged in). Beyond that, the architecture of terminfo is a disincentive to creating new terminals, because you have to get terminfo right everywhere. Yes, one could package a terminfo supplement for iTerm2 and distribute it, but it's a serious bummer to have to apt-get/yum/dnf/emerge on every box you handle just because you like a different terminal emulator. But xterm is already there, so the easy path is to identify as xterm and handle xterm and lie occasionally (like with features like these). And that's how it's going to be. Forever. Because machines are now disposable, and now we're handling tens of thousands of them over our careers, and well-manicured terminfo databases on a few machines in the lab are a relic of the old sysadmin lifestyle. This isn't old-vs-new NIH, to be clear, it's just that what we call a "server" has gradually evolved, and stateful databases like terminfo represent older ways of addressing systems that nobody really feels like maintaining anymore. Terminals are now much smarter than the average VT100, and it's high time for a terminal to identify its capabilities with a new protocol that doesn't require server-side state. But nobody is working on that, to my knowledge, because the "Unix way" creates an even stronger disincentive to evolve the manner in which we think about Unix lest we disrespect the past. (See systemd.)
ozy123 11y ago
Undo closed window is sweet. Nice work.
swagtricker 11y ago
Great app. This announcement reminded me that I use it every day & hadn't donated yet, so I did. $10USD won't be retirement money, but at least have a beer & tip your bartender:)
- jsmeaton 11y ago
  I'm jumping on the donation train too. Great piece of software, and really impressive update.
- astrostl 11y ago
  I hadn't donated either, and it's a killer app for me. Just fixed that.
Fizzadar 11y ago
Awesome - I've almost forgotten Terminal.app exists these days. Shell integration is super exciting, I can see myself using that a whole lot in the coming months.
hk__2 11y ago
> Undo closing sessions, tabs, and windows. If you close a session by accident, you get five seconds to hit Cmd-Z to undo it. Does that mean my session is not really closed until 5 seconds after I “closed” it?
- steckerbrett 11y ago
  Yes.
obel1x 11y ago
the linked filename says v2.9?
- rajathagasthya 11y ago
  The version also says Build 2.9.20160206 when you do About iTerm.
glossyscr 11y ago
iTerm is OSX' killer app. Couldn't find anything similar on Windows. I used MobaXTerm which is ok but never feels as polished and slick as iTerm. Especially iTerm's own fullscreen mode which allows to quickly alt-tab is great.
- guelo 11y ago
  putty is the defacto standard Windows SSH terminal. (Though that's not what iterm is.)
  - levemi 11y ago
    putty needs some serious UI love. It doesn't look like the UI has been updated in over 10 years. I use MSYS which comes with mingw and works for my purposes.
    - bshimmin 11y ago
      It worries me slightly that I can still remember the URL for PuTTY - I'm not even sure I've used Windows once in the last 5 years in a context where I would have needed it!
  - seanp2k2 11y ago
    Putty never had good tab support even with all the various work-around and frankensteins people had made to do it. If that situation has changed in the past 5 years, I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would be excited to hear about the details.
  - bluedino 11y ago
    Can't put my finger on it but putty isn't on the level iTerm2 is
- tjohns 11y ago
  Cmder (which is Conemu + extras) is my go-to terminal app for Windows, and I know a lot of other folks like it. http://cmder.net/ http://cmder.net/ iTerm is definitely hard to beat, though.
sstanfie 11y ago
Can we configure iTerm2 v3 now with a simple file? It's so difficult to programmatically create profiles, setup typefaces and colors.
- gnachman 11y ago
  https://www.iterm2.com/dynamic-profiles.html https://www.iterm2.com/dynamic-profiles.html
  - sstanfie 11y ago
    Thanks! Can't wait to try it out. Downloading now.
AceJohnny2 11y ago
So if I'm running iTerm2 Test release 2.9.date (current 2.9.20160206), does that mean I'm running the v3 beta? Its version names are confusing.
- perplexa 11y ago
  Yes, the current beta's version number is 2.9.20160206 as linked on https://iterm2.com/version3.html https://iterm2.com/version3.html
jpsim 11y ago
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 ;)
- bentrevor 11y ago
  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.
- rickhanlonii 11y ago
  https://medium.com/@xanderdunn/iterm2-vs-terminal-c06976f106ef#.3x1ip0m3q https://medium.com/@xanderdunn/iterm2-vs-terminal-c06976f106...
  - jpsim 11y ago
    Thanks for that, although it similarly hasn't swayed me :D
  - autoreleasepool 11y ago
    Which one is the killer feature? The ones listed in that article all seem like extremely minor differences to me.
  - duaneb 11y ago
    > Customizability ends up being pretty important for serious developers who are always in the terminal. Ironically, I would say customizability ends up being pretty important for serious developers attempting to avoid working. I can't say my terminal itself—as opposed to the shell—requires any serious modifications at all. (I rewire the left option key and color schemes, and that's about it.)
joshontheweb 11y ago
I just donated but do you ever consider charging? I think most here would pay. iTerm2 really is the best option and provides a lot of value to developers who make money using it.
- gnachman 11y ago
  Accepting donations is about as far as I'd go with trying to monetize free software. If I were looking for a lifestyle business I might take a try at selling support for it or selling some kind of related SaaS.
  - shadowfax92 11y ago
    Can you atleast show-up a popup for donation? I've been using iTerm2 for couple of years, just realized and donated. A pop-up would remind many people like me I guess :)
dsego 11y ago
Didn't know you can ls and then cmd+click to open a folder/file. And alt+click positions the cursor. Nice touches.
- seanp2k2 11y ago
  Try cmd or right-clicking the path in the window title bar. Should pop open a menu with the CWD path and all parents that you can then click to open in a finder. Apparently this works in other Mac apps as well. I had no idea for many years. https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/os-x-yosemite/9781491948484/ch01s02.html https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/os-x-yosemite... under "Title Bar" section. Also has some other hidden tricks. As cool as this stuff is and as useful as it is, it's not discoverable at all.
hanniabu 11y ago
Issue: On mobile the hamburger menu isn't expanding Android, Samsung S4, Chrome V. 48.0.2564.96
- tonyarkles 11y ago
  Broken on Safari iOS as well, iOS 9.2.1
- gnachman 11y ago
  I've passed this on to our web folks. Thanks for letting me know!
dchuk 11y ago
One of the best mac apps in existence but holy jeebus is the naming a mess: - It's called iTerm2 Version 3 now, rather than iTerm3 - It's called iTerm2 Version 3 now, but the actual app version is 2.9
- gnachman 11y ago
  The app's name is iTerm2. Version numbers have to increase lexicographically, so the version 3 beta is called 2.9. I'm open to suggestions :)
  - bosdev 11y ago
    In SemVer [1], it's prescribed that the first number is for breaking changes, the second number for new features, and the third number for fixes. So this would be v3.0.0. It also allows you to add a suffix though for beta-type versions, so the beta would be v3.0.0-beta, or v3.0.0-rc1, etc. [1] http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/
    - roblabla 11y ago
      SemVer works great for libraries, but it falls apart for actual software IMO. How would you define a "breaking change" in a software ? Would it be a complete redesign ? Or maybe a feature removal (Does that ever happen ?) Versions are supposed to convey meaning over how much has changed to the app between two versions. iTerm got soooooo many new features in this new version, anything smaller than a major bump would feel out of place. I do agree the actual version should be v3.0.0-beta1 tho ^^.
      - Carrok 11y ago
        AppleScript isn't backwards compatible, sounds like that would fit just about any definition of a breaking change.
      - fenomas 11y ago
        > SemVer works great for libraries, but it falls apart for actual software IMO SemVer is for APIs. From the spec: > 1. Software using Semantic Versioning MUST declare a public API.
slajax 11y ago
Thank you for all the hard work of the iterm2 team. I've used this application for years now and without it, I would be useless. I do 99% of my development within it, so it really is a super important tool for me and I'm very very excited to see it's continued improvement.
coldtea 11y ago
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.
- schlomok 11y ago
  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.
  - coldtea 11y ago
    Generally found it slower (dealing with text etc), some term behaviors were incompatible, etc.
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]
pkmishra 11y ago
Thank you so much for your hard work. It's default terminal for me.
_aarti 11y ago
I have used iterm for a long time and I would like to donate to your project. I make all my donations with Patreon, would be great if you could add support for that, if it's not too much trouble. https://www.patreon.com/ https://www.patreon.com/
- gnachman 11y ago
  Any other open source projects using it? Curious how they set the rewards and objectives.
  - _aarti 11y ago
    I use it to donate to exercism. It's nice to see other contributions
  - _aarti 11y ago
    I made a donation anyway with paypal, much appreciate your work. Also checkout funding from Travis foundation and DuckDuckGo. If you need help with traffic to your site, let me know, I work at a CDN. http://foundation.travis-ci.org/grants/ http://foundation.travis-ci.org/grants/
- tenken 11y ago
  or just you know, use his preferred method of donation.
  - _aarti 11y ago
    I have trouble with paypal
    - autoreleasepool 11y ago
      Do you honestly expect him to switch his setup because of your particular situation?
      - deleted 11y ago
monkmartinez 11y ago
Zsh shell via iTerm2, coupled with prezto or Oh my Zsh == Nirvana.
- icpmacdo 11y ago
  I'm going to look like a huge noob but is Zsh what makes terminals look cool? I see Oh my Zsh on Github and it has a lot of stars, how do I get started with it on my Mac?
  - schlomok 11y ago
    It does more than just look cool! For me, I personally prefer the completion abilities that zsh enables, but there is a whole suite of capabilities - that said, yes, it also can look really cool! There's an installer script off github. Just follow those instructions and that's all you'll need (assuming you already installed zsh). If you haven't, you can install it with Homebrew using `brew install zsh`.
  - x0 11y ago
    oh my zsh is pretty easy to install, the instructions are on http://ohmyz.sh/ http://ohmyz.sh/. I've been using zsh for so long, I've forgotten what zsh can do that bash can't. But I love zsh for these reasons: - Crazy good command completion. Even right in the middle of commands! Example with dd: http://i.imgur.com/UQBlTc9.png http://i.imgur.com/UQBlTc9.png - That completion extends to directories as well. Just keep pressing tab and you get a cool little menu thing, whereas bash just prints the choices again and again. - Right prompt! - Syntax colours! Just like fish!
- jsmthrowaway 11y ago
  I'd add the tmux integration to that, which is an absolute life changer (even more now that iTerm2 is happy with multiple tmux sessions at a time).
machbio 11y ago
I started using Mac since September - Iterm2 saved from the horrible Mac Terminal.. But why is there no option to rename Tabs ?
- gry 11y ago
  iTerm2 is full of surprises. Double click the tab and you can rename the session.
venantius 11y ago
I just donated $25. iTerm is an amazing piece of software and I honestly can't imagine living without it.
cooper12 11y ago
> Session Restoration allows your jobs to keep running after iTerm2 upgrades, is force-quit, or crashes. It's like tmux without tmux! Anyone know how this works? From my basic (possibly incorrect) understanding, iTerm currently spawns a bash shell for each tab which in turn has its own children for its processes; so killing iTerm would kill all of its children. Does it use a separate daemon process to spawn children now?
- dgreensp 11y ago
  https://iterm2.com/restoration.html https://iterm2.com/restoration.html
  - cooper12 11y ago
    Thank you. It's actually more involved than i thought it would be on the client side, but a good use of the OS' functionality.
octref 11y ago
> iTerm2 has been updated for the modern Mac OS X "flat" look and is stunningly beautiful. It does look very polished! Just two things: When you choose "No title bar", the rounded corners and drop shadows all disappear so it looks a bit too "sharp". And it would be really great if you can add an option to specify internal padding, similar to urxvt's internalBorder. Great work and thanks again!
yeukhon 11y ago
Is there a screenshot for the new version...?
blckshp 11y ago
I have been a long time Visor/TotalTerminal user and wanted to try iTerm2 on 10.11 but was concerned with its use of the Sparkle updater framework. I could find no sign through all of my research if confirm if updates are performed through https instead of http and I declined to install it. I also couldn't find a way to contact the anyone to ask, so I'm glad you posted. So? What does it use? Don't you think this may be worth noting on the announcement or changelog?
- gry 11y ago
  Why are you concerned with Sparkle? Is it because it's a third party library or whether or not iTerm2 makes HTTPS updates? It seems a little debugging with LittleSnitch/Charles would glean an answer how the requests are made and what, if anything else is. Perhaps a ticket https://iterm2.com/bugs https://iterm2.com/bugs is warranted.
  - blckshp 11y ago
    Well, if you hadn't heard http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/huge-number-of-mac-apps-vulnerable-to-hijacking-and-a-fix-is-elusive/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/huge-number-of-mac-a... I would just like to know before I install. I don't think it is too unreasonable of a prerequisite.
    - gry 11y ago
      Thank you for this. I had not.
- gnachman 11y ago
  Yep, https. Look at the last two URLs at the very end of the file: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/master/plists/release-iTerm2.plist https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/master/plists/releas... Likewise, all HTTPS here: http://iterm2.com/appcasts/testing3.xml http://iterm2.com/appcasts/testing3.xml If you're on Mac OS 10.11, we don't disable app transport security, so the OS prevents us from making HTTP requests at all.
asd 11y ago
Amazing work. This app has so many features that I think go unnoticed to many. I recommend going through all of the tips of the day (iTerm2 -> Show Tip of the Day) and perusing the various preferences available in the app. I donated a while back and will be donating again tonight.
pvinis 11y ago
iterm is the best terminal i have found. well done! ps. people should run iterm, and then press cmd-/ to see something fun! ive seen them change a few times.
kaishiro 11y ago
I played with iTerm2 for a while (coming from Linux) because I was told I had to have it. I switched back to Terminal.app after my last clean install because I didn't really see what I was getting. For someone who tmuxes for tabs and splits, what am I missing?
- Secretmapper 11y ago
  It's very short, but you can checkout my post on vim + [iTerm](http://arianv.com/post/My-First-Month-with-Vim/ http://arianv.com/post/My-First-Month-with-Vim/) Basically, I really love the fullscreen keybinding, hotkeys, colors and search ( though the default terminal already has this I think)
  - kaishiro 11y ago
    Appreciate it! So, the show/hide feature seems to be the one really interesting thing to me. We're both vimmers and it sounds like we have similar workflows. What's killing me right now, is that coming from Debian I always had 5 desktops setup on Alt+1-5. I've got the same thing on Command+1-5 now, but if I force Terminal.app to fullscreen in OSX in the Desktop 1 spot, it's no longer available via Alt+1, since it spins up it's own, new desktop called 'Terminal'. It kills me. In your post, are you saying that you can have a fullscreen iTerm2 window transposable to any of your desktops with the show/hide hotkey? Because this would push me over the fence. BTW, I dig the CSS triangle inversions you're using for your ribbon up top.
    - Secretmapper 11y ago
      Hey! I'm not sure if I fully understand your query, so let me know if I'm off the mark: The answer is iTerm is incredibly configurable! iTerm can run on it's own 'fullscreen' window (Lion Style, you know, like say, full screen chrome) OR it can use a transparent fullscreen that basically just fills the current screen you are in, not creating a new 'desktop/space' (the gif on my blog post shows this). APART from that you can also configure iTerm to show up on all desktops - i.e. I'll have documentation on desktop 1 and the actual site on desktop 2 and I can bring up the same terminal window with `alt space`. So I do think that the answer to your question is YES! That's probably the awesome thing about iTerm. There's no "super big killer feature" but it just provides enough options that whatever workflow you have/want, it most likely can support it. And nice to meet a fellow vimmer! Thanks for the appreciating the CSS ribbons too :)
ronjouch 11y ago
Kudos for the changelog starting with a very succinct summary + link, then expanding what changed :)
random3 11y ago
Love iTerm2, upgraded and donated :)
pmoriarty 11y ago
Is there a way to make a previously hidden iTerm window show without also bringing any other iTerm windows to the front? I'm looking to replace TotalTerminal with iTerm (since TT doesn't work on El Capitan without making OS X less secure), and tried using a function key to hide/show a small iTerm window, but while that does work, the problem is that when it shows the small window, it also shows my regular large iTerm window as well (which I have always running) and the times when I want to show the small iTerm window I don't want the large iTerm window obscuring what's behind it. Not sure if I explained that well, but that's what I'm hoping to find a way how to do: basically have a small, TotalTerminal-like iTerm2 window that pops up when I hit a certain keyboard shortcut, without also bringing up any other iTerm2 windows that I may have running in the background. I'm also open to suggestions for other TotalTerminal replacements that work on El Capitan.
- pixelcloud 11y ago
  Yes, they have had a visor feature for a long time actually. I'm not on my mac right now and i'm not 100% sure if this link is accurate anymore. But it's under the keyboard shortcuts or profile settings. It is not enabled by default, and you can create a new hotkey profile with more transparency or whatever, http://fokkezb.nl/2014/10/29/using-iterm2s-improved-visor/ http://fokkezb.nl/2014/10/29/using-iterm2s-improved-visor/
  - ViViDboarder 11y ago
    That brings other iTerm windows to the foreground. There is a ticket to fix this, but it's bound by limitations from how OSX does app switching (according to the ticket).
- nicolasp 11y ago
  > Is there a way to make a previously hidden iTerm window show without also bringing any other iTerm windows to the front? HyperDock[1] Lets you do that. [1] https://bahoom.com/hyperdock/ https://bahoom.com/hyperdock/
Ezhik 11y ago
Why is it not called iTerm3?
biztos 11y ago
I'm late to the thread but just wanted to say THANK YOU for all the hard work in general; and especially now for this: "iTerm2 can change your profile (for example, affecting the color of your terminal) when you ssh to a remote host, when you run sudo, or even depending on your current directory." Like many people, I use profiles mostly to have different colors for different hosts. This will make my workflow a little easier and a lot more consistent Every. Single. Day. Köszönöm!
spleeder 11y ago
One of my favorite new features has got to be true color support.
a-b 11y ago
I'm waiting for mutt and weechat to adopt a new iTerm2 inline images feature. That would be epic!
sadiqevani 11y ago
I freaking love it, especially tabs and fonts, thank you for the hard work man.

622 points by rickhanlonii 11y ago

erikb 11y ago

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.

strages 11y ago

It would be great having little video's of each new feature. For example with the automatic profile switching, or the marks/shell integration features.

jgworks 11y ago

A quick and dirty one-liner to pull the newest xkcd: https://gist.github.com/jgworks/5c7bd0f731210133ebd4 https://gist.github.com/jgworks/5c7bd0f731210133ebd4

aethant 11y ago

Loving it so far! Thanks for all your hard work.

pholz 11y ago

great app, i've been using it for a while (i also use terminator on linux). together with homebrew and fish it makes the osx command line experience fantastic!

Philipp__ 11y ago

You guys deserve all the best. Will make the donation soon... (student here) I have never came across terminal app that is working with you... urxvt and many other on Linux were always working against me. This one was drag and drop and it works.

sstanfie 11y ago

I'm sure if you're reading these comments, iTerm is the program you use the most on the Mac. Give George a donation through the Donate button on his site (https://iterm2.com/ https://iterm2.com/) to let him know how much we care about this tool. Takes 10 seconds if you have PayPal.

sstanfie 11y ago

Another suggestion: how about simply calling it "iTerm". This can be version 3. I know "iTerm2" was a fork of the defunct original iTerm. But now that you're pushing through to v3, in kind of makes sense to reclaim the title.

matt_wulfeck 11y ago

Iterm2 was one of those things I was not expecting to miss so much when I switched to a Linux desktop. There's something about the look and feel of text that I'm used too. Don't get me wrong, there's good terminals for Linux, but I think iterm2 was the best. I'd gladly pay for a Linux port.

forgotpwtomain 11y ago
Just curious - what features are you missing on Linux that are available on Iterm2? I've used Iterm2 quite a bit and while I think it is more full-featured than my linux terminal, I don't find myself using any features which are not common to both.
melted 11y ago
Give Terminator a try.
suprfnk 11y ago
> There's something about the look and feel of text that I'm used too. Yeah, font rendering is great out of the box on OS X. However, you can also get that on Linux, using Infinality. Check it out. :)

fmela 11y ago

This is fantastic. I love the new look, and the font rendering seems to be even nicer than before.

rickhanlonii 11y ago
Yeah the difference is noticeable: http://dp.hanlon.io/2k2n3G190l2e http://dp.hanlon.io/2k2n3G190l2e
- reinhardt1053 11y ago
  What color theme is that?
  - rickhanlonii 11y ago
    A blend of Solarized and Intellij Darcula: https://github.com/rickhanlonii/Solarized-Darcula https://github.com/rickhanlonii/Solarized-Darcula
- ihuman 11y ago
  The link is broken for me

isomorphic 11y ago

I love iTerm2, I keep up with the "current" beta versions, using them all day in production. I would love it if they'd make a "dark" titlebar version of the window chrome. My setup currently has windows without any titlebar at all (thanks to iTerm for that feature!), but it makes rearranging windows challenging. I look forward to trying out the newer features!

jd3 11y ago
this is totally feasible with a custom .car file that you can embed into your program. The problem is the titlebar text. I hacked together a working SIMBL script back in the 10.6 days that fixed the problem, but it's probably lost. Interestingly, Apple's current DarkAppearance.car (/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources) that ships (but lies unused) in OS X 10.11.3 suffers from the same problems. You can copy it over into GraphiteAppearance.car to test it out. White titlebar text is still glitched to hell.
xbryanx 11y ago
How do you hide the titlebar entirely?
- highpixels 11y ago
  Preferences > Profile > Window > Style: "No Title Bar" doesn't seem to then be anyway to move the window (just resize from the edges)
  - sikhnerd 11y ago
    Mirroring my sibling comment here, but thanks for the detailed note on how to get rid of the bright white title bar :) As far as resizing goes, I would suggest using one of the many pseudo tiling window managers available on mac. I strongly recommend spectacle [1] [1] https://www.spectacleapp.com/ https://www.spectacleapp.com/
sikhnerd 11y ago
Thanks so much for pointing out the ability to hide the titlebar entirely, as I have the same pet peeve :) I would suggest using one of the many pseudo tiling window managers to resize your windows so you don't have that problem. I strongly recommend spectacle [1] [1] https://www.spectacleapp.com/ https://www.spectacleapp.com/

bechampion 11y ago

that is the one thing i miss from osx .. i had all kinds of triggers on screen , specially colouring ip addresses , and urls and guids .. hope it comes to linux one day.

Tiksi 11y ago
Probably not the kind of customization most people are looking for, but you can do all that with urxvt extensions: http://jbl.web.cern.ch/jbl/doc/urxvt/ http://jbl.web.cern.ch/jbl/doc/urxvt/ A lot more of a pain in the ass to write extensions from scratch instead of having a UI to configure, especially if you're not big on perl, but there's a good amount of extensions out there that are ready to use as well.
nothrabannosir 11y ago
It's been >5y since I used KDE, but iirc the default terminal there had regexp you could set to trigger any action you wanted. And links were automatically clickable. Can anyone running KDE confirm?
- somebehemoth 11y ago
  I doubt this is helpful, but I tried to find a Linux terminal that was as customizable as iterm2. Konsole was the closest thing I could find. It has a UI to configure many aspects of the terminal. Unfortunately, I'm drawing a blank on triggers at the moment. I still think iterm2 is way better but konsole is really really customizable.
jsz0 11y ago
For colorizing output check out grc https://github.com/pengwynn/grc https://github.com/pengwynn/grc
- bechampion 11y ago
  cheers mate

gnachman 11y ago

(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, and of those 25% downloaded the beta.

maratc 11y ago
George, huge thanks for your work. Please consider putting iTerm2 on the App Store for a couple of bucks (in addition to providing it for free on your site).
- deckiedan 11y ago
  I think the App Store Sandbox would restrict iTerm's ability to be useful. (Can only access files it has created, or via a standard OSX file open dialog, for instance.)
pheoki 11y ago
ITerm 2 is my absolute favourite piece of software I've ever used. It's a delight to work with. Thank you so much for your work!
namtrac 11y ago
This is the only app I miss on Linux, kudos!
jarpineh 11y ago
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9880694

iso-8859-1 11y ago

There is already the need for standardization on inline images, as notty uses another approach than iTerm2, which uses another approach than Terminology.

cargen 11y ago
xterm can do inline graphics too, in the form of Sixel for raster graphics and ReGIS for vector graphics. At least those are sort of standard, in that they were used by real terminals and there are real specs for them. The annoying thing is, even if terminals standardized on one protocol, none of them set $TERM or use terminfo properly. So there's no good way for programs to actually use these features, because you don't know if you're running in a terminal that supports them, or which escape codes to send to make use of them.
- tatterdemalion 11y ago
  > The annoying thing is, even if terminals standardized on one protocol, none of them set $TERM or use terminfo properly. This is why notty _does_ set $TERM and has a terminfo sheet.
- jsmthrowaway 11y ago
  > none of them set $TERM or use terminfo properly. There's a reason for this, and it's because a lot of things assume certain values for $TERM and completely go to shit when it's something else. In addition, who actually sets $TERM is an open question depending on the architecture of the system you are talking to (and the manner in which you logged in). Beyond that, the architecture of terminfo is a disincentive to creating new terminals, because you have to get terminfo right everywhere. Yes, one could package a terminfo supplement for iTerm2 and distribute it, but it's a serious bummer to have to apt-get/yum/dnf/emerge on every box you handle just because you like a different terminal emulator. But xterm is already there, so the easy path is to identify as xterm and handle xterm and lie occasionally (like with features like these). And that's how it's going to be. Forever. Because machines are now disposable, and now we're handling tens of thousands of them over our careers, and well-manicured terminfo databases on a few machines in the lab are a relic of the old sysadmin lifestyle. This isn't old-vs-new NIH, to be clear, it's just that what we call a "server" has gradually evolved, and stateful databases like terminfo represent older ways of addressing systems that nobody really feels like maintaining anymore. Terminals are now much smarter than the average VT100, and it's high time for a terminal to identify its capabilities with a new protocol that doesn't require server-side state. But nobody is working on that, to my knowledge, because the "Unix way" creates an even stronger disincentive to evolve the manner in which we think about Unix lest we disrespect the past. (See systemd.)

ozy123 11y ago

Undo closed window is sweet. Nice work.

swagtricker 11y ago

Great app. This announcement reminded me that I use it every day & hadn't donated yet, so I did. $10USD won't be retirement money, but at least have a beer & tip your bartender:)

jsmeaton 11y ago
I'm jumping on the donation train too. Great piece of software, and really impressive update.
astrostl 11y ago
I hadn't donated either, and it's a killer app for me. Just fixed that.

Fizzadar 11y ago

Awesome - I've almost forgotten Terminal.app exists these days. Shell integration is super exciting, I can see myself using that a whole lot in the coming months.

hk__2 11y ago

> Undo closing sessions, tabs, and windows. If you close a session by accident, you get five seconds to hit Cmd-Z to undo it. Does that mean my session is not really closed until 5 seconds after I “closed” it?

steckerbrett 11y ago
Yes.

obel1x 11y ago

the linked filename says v2.9?

rajathagasthya 11y ago
The version also says Build 2.9.20160206 when you do About iTerm.

glossyscr 11y ago

iTerm is OSX' killer app. Couldn't find anything similar on Windows. I used MobaXTerm which is ok but never feels as polished and slick as iTerm. Especially iTerm's own fullscreen mode which allows to quickly alt-tab is great.

guelo 11y ago
putty is the defacto standard Windows SSH terminal. (Though that's not what iterm is.)
- levemi 11y ago
  putty needs some serious UI love. It doesn't look like the UI has been updated in over 10 years. I use MSYS which comes with mingw and works for my purposes.
  - bshimmin 11y ago
    It worries me slightly that I can still remember the URL for PuTTY - I'm not even sure I've used Windows once in the last 5 years in a context where I would have needed it!
- seanp2k2 11y ago
  Putty never had good tab support even with all the various work-around and frankensteins people had made to do it. If that situation has changed in the past 5 years, I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would be excited to hear about the details.
- bluedino 11y ago
  Can't put my finger on it but putty isn't on the level iTerm2 is
tjohns 11y ago
Cmder (which is Conemu + extras) is my go-to terminal app for Windows, and I know a lot of other folks like it. http://cmder.net/ http://cmder.net/ iTerm is definitely hard to beat, though.

sstanfie 11y ago

Can we configure iTerm2 v3 now with a simple file? It's so difficult to programmatically create profiles, setup typefaces and colors.

gnachman 11y ago
https://www.iterm2.com/dynamic-profiles.html https://www.iterm2.com/dynamic-profiles.html
- sstanfie 11y ago
  Thanks! Can't wait to try it out. Downloading now.

AceJohnny2 11y ago

So if I'm running iTerm2 Test release 2.9.date (current 2.9.20160206), does that mean I'm running the v3 beta? Its version names are confusing.

perplexa 11y ago
Yes, the current beta's version number is 2.9.20160206 as linked on https://iterm2.com/version3.html https://iterm2.com/version3.html

jpsim 11y ago

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 ;)

bentrevor 11y ago
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.
rickhanlonii 11y ago
https://medium.com/@xanderdunn/iterm2-vs-terminal-c06976f106ef#.3x1ip0m3q https://medium.com/@xanderdunn/iterm2-vs-terminal-c06976f106...
- jpsim 11y ago
  Thanks for that, although it similarly hasn't swayed me :D
- autoreleasepool 11y ago
  Which one is the killer feature? The ones listed in that article all seem like extremely minor differences to me.
- duaneb 11y ago
  > Customizability ends up being pretty important for serious developers who are always in the terminal. Ironically, I would say customizability ends up being pretty important for serious developers attempting to avoid working. I can't say my terminal itself—as opposed to the shell—requires any serious modifications at all. (I rewire the left option key and color schemes, and that's about it.)

joshontheweb 11y ago

I just donated but do you ever consider charging? I think most here would pay. iTerm2 really is the best option and provides a lot of value to developers who make money using it.

gnachman 11y ago
Accepting donations is about as far as I'd go with trying to monetize free software. If I were looking for a lifestyle business I might take a try at selling support for it or selling some kind of related SaaS.
- shadowfax92 11y ago
  Can you atleast show-up a popup for donation? I've been using iTerm2 for couple of years, just realized and donated. A pop-up would remind many people like me I guess :)

dsego 11y ago

Didn't know you can ls and then cmd+click to open a folder/file. And alt+click positions the cursor. Nice touches.

seanp2k2 11y ago
Try cmd or right-clicking the path in the window title bar. Should pop open a menu with the CWD path and all parents that you can then click to open in a finder. Apparently this works in other Mac apps as well. I had no idea for many years. https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/os-x-yosemite/9781491948484/ch01s02.html https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/os-x-yosemite... under "Title Bar" section. Also has some other hidden tricks. As cool as this stuff is and as useful as it is, it's not discoverable at all.

hanniabu 11y ago

Issue: On mobile the hamburger menu isn't expanding Android, Samsung S4, Chrome V. 48.0.2564.96

tonyarkles 11y ago
Broken on Safari iOS as well, iOS 9.2.1
gnachman 11y ago
I've passed this on to our web folks. Thanks for letting me know!

dchuk 11y ago

One of the best mac apps in existence but holy jeebus is the naming a mess: - It's called iTerm2 Version 3 now, rather than iTerm3 - It's called iTerm2 Version 3 now, but the actual app version is 2.9

gnachman 11y ago
The app's name is iTerm2. Version numbers have to increase lexicographically, so the version 3 beta is called 2.9. I'm open to suggestions :)
- bosdev 11y ago
  In SemVer [1], it's prescribed that the first number is for breaking changes, the second number for new features, and the third number for fixes. So this would be v3.0.0. It also allows you to add a suffix though for beta-type versions, so the beta would be v3.0.0-beta, or v3.0.0-rc1, etc. [1] http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/
  - roblabla 11y ago
    SemVer works great for libraries, but it falls apart for actual software IMO. How would you define a "breaking change" in a software ? Would it be a complete redesign ? Or maybe a feature removal (Does that ever happen ?) Versions are supposed to convey meaning over how much has changed to the app between two versions. iTerm got soooooo many new features in this new version, anything smaller than a major bump would feel out of place. I do agree the actual version should be v3.0.0-beta1 tho ^^.
    - Carrok 11y ago
      AppleScript isn't backwards compatible, sounds like that would fit just about any definition of a breaking change.
    - fenomas 11y ago
      > SemVer works great for libraries, but it falls apart for actual software IMO SemVer is for APIs. From the spec: > 1. Software using Semantic Versioning MUST declare a public API.

slajax 11y ago

Thank you for all the hard work of the iterm2 team. I've used this application for years now and without it, I would be useless. I do 99% of my development within it, so it really is a super important tool for me and I'm very very excited to see it's continued improvement.

coldtea 11y ago

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.

schlomok 11y ago
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.
- coldtea 11y ago
  Generally found it slower (dealing with text etc), some term behaviors were incompatible, etc.
- deleted 11y ago
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pkmishra 11y ago

Thank you so much for your hard work. It's default terminal for me.

_aarti 11y ago

I have used iterm for a long time and I would like to donate to your project. I make all my donations with Patreon, would be great if you could add support for that, if it's not too much trouble. https://www.patreon.com/ https://www.patreon.com/

gnachman 11y ago
Any other open source projects using it? Curious how they set the rewards and objectives.
- _aarti 11y ago
  I use it to donate to exercism. It's nice to see other contributions
- _aarti 11y ago
  I made a donation anyway with paypal, much appreciate your work. Also checkout funding from Travis foundation and DuckDuckGo. If you need help with traffic to your site, let me know, I work at a CDN. http://foundation.travis-ci.org/grants/ http://foundation.travis-ci.org/grants/
tenken 11y ago
or just you know, use his preferred method of donation.
- _aarti 11y ago
  I have trouble with paypal
  - autoreleasepool 11y ago
    Do you honestly expect him to switch his setup because of your particular situation?
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monkmartinez 11y ago

Zsh shell via iTerm2, coupled with prezto or Oh my Zsh == Nirvana.

icpmacdo 11y ago
I'm going to look like a huge noob but is Zsh what makes terminals look cool? I see Oh my Zsh on Github and it has a lot of stars, how do I get started with it on my Mac?
- schlomok 11y ago
  It does more than just look cool! For me, I personally prefer the completion abilities that zsh enables, but there is a whole suite of capabilities - that said, yes, it also can look really cool! There's an installer script off github. Just follow those instructions and that's all you'll need (assuming you already installed zsh). If you haven't, you can install it with Homebrew using `brew install zsh`.
- x0 11y ago
  oh my zsh is pretty easy to install, the instructions are on http://ohmyz.sh/ http://ohmyz.sh/. I've been using zsh for so long, I've forgotten what zsh can do that bash can't. But I love zsh for these reasons: - Crazy good command completion. Even right in the middle of commands! Example with dd: http://i.imgur.com/UQBlTc9.png http://i.imgur.com/UQBlTc9.png - That completion extends to directories as well. Just keep pressing tab and you get a cool little menu thing, whereas bash just prints the choices again and again. - Right prompt! - Syntax colours! Just like fish!
jsmthrowaway 11y ago
I'd add the tmux integration to that, which is an absolute life changer (even more now that iTerm2 is happy with multiple tmux sessions at a time).

machbio 11y ago

I started using Mac since September - Iterm2 saved from the horrible Mac Terminal.. But why is there no option to rename Tabs ?

gry 11y ago
iTerm2 is full of surprises. Double click the tab and you can rename the session.

venantius 11y ago

I just donated $25. iTerm is an amazing piece of software and I honestly can't imagine living without it.

cooper12 11y ago

> Session Restoration allows your jobs to keep running after iTerm2 upgrades, is force-quit, or crashes. It's like tmux without tmux! Anyone know how this works? From my basic (possibly incorrect) understanding, iTerm currently spawns a bash shell for each tab which in turn has its own children for its processes; so killing iTerm would kill all of its children. Does it use a separate daemon process to spawn children now?

dgreensp 11y ago
https://iterm2.com/restoration.html https://iterm2.com/restoration.html
- cooper12 11y ago
  Thank you. It's actually more involved than i thought it would be on the client side, but a good use of the OS' functionality.

octref 11y ago

> iTerm2 has been updated for the modern Mac OS X "flat" look and is stunningly beautiful. It does look very polished! Just two things: When you choose "No title bar", the rounded corners and drop shadows all disappear so it looks a bit too "sharp". And it would be really great if you can add an option to specify internal padding, similar to urxvt's internalBorder. Great work and thanks again!

yeukhon 11y ago

Is there a screenshot for the new version...?

blckshp 11y ago

I have been a long time Visor/TotalTerminal user and wanted to try iTerm2 on 10.11 but was concerned with its use of the Sparkle updater framework. I could find no sign through all of my research if confirm if updates are performed through https instead of http and I declined to install it. I also couldn't find a way to contact the anyone to ask, so I'm glad you posted. So? What does it use? Don't you think this may be worth noting on the announcement or changelog?

gry 11y ago
Why are you concerned with Sparkle? Is it because it's a third party library or whether or not iTerm2 makes HTTPS updates? It seems a little debugging with LittleSnitch/Charles would glean an answer how the requests are made and what, if anything else is. Perhaps a ticket https://iterm2.com/bugs https://iterm2.com/bugs is warranted.
- blckshp 11y ago
  Well, if you hadn't heard http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/huge-number-of-mac-apps-vulnerable-to-hijacking-and-a-fix-is-elusive/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/huge-number-of-mac-a... I would just like to know before I install. I don't think it is too unreasonable of a prerequisite.
  - gry 11y ago
    Thank you for this. I had not.
gnachman 11y ago
Yep, https. Look at the last two URLs at the very end of the file: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/master/plists/release-iTerm2.plist https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/master/plists/releas... Likewise, all HTTPS here: http://iterm2.com/appcasts/testing3.xml http://iterm2.com/appcasts/testing3.xml If you're on Mac OS 10.11, we don't disable app transport security, so the OS prevents us from making HTTP requests at all.

asd 11y ago

Amazing work. This app has so many features that I think go unnoticed to many. I recommend going through all of the tips of the day (iTerm2 -> Show Tip of the Day) and perusing the various preferences available in the app. I donated a while back and will be donating again tonight.

pvinis 11y ago

iterm is the best terminal i have found. well done! ps. people should run iterm, and then press cmd-/ to see something fun! ive seen them change a few times.

kaishiro 11y ago

I played with iTerm2 for a while (coming from Linux) because I was told I had to have it. I switched back to Terminal.app after my last clean install because I didn't really see what I was getting. For someone who tmuxes for tabs and splits, what am I missing?

Secretmapper 11y ago
It's very short, but you can checkout my post on vim + [iTerm](http://arianv.com/post/My-First-Month-with-Vim/ http://arianv.com/post/My-First-Month-with-Vim/) Basically, I really love the fullscreen keybinding, hotkeys, colors and search ( though the default terminal already has this I think)
- kaishiro 11y ago
  Appreciate it! So, the show/hide feature seems to be the one really interesting thing to me. We're both vimmers and it sounds like we have similar workflows. What's killing me right now, is that coming from Debian I always had 5 desktops setup on Alt+1-5. I've got the same thing on Command+1-5 now, but if I force Terminal.app to fullscreen in OSX in the Desktop 1 spot, it's no longer available via Alt+1, since it spins up it's own, new desktop called 'Terminal'. It kills me. In your post, are you saying that you can have a fullscreen iTerm2 window transposable to any of your desktops with the show/hide hotkey? Because this would push me over the fence. BTW, I dig the CSS triangle inversions you're using for your ribbon up top.
  - Secretmapper 11y ago
    Hey! I'm not sure if I fully understand your query, so let me know if I'm off the mark: The answer is iTerm is incredibly configurable! iTerm can run on it's own 'fullscreen' window (Lion Style, you know, like say, full screen chrome) OR it can use a transparent fullscreen that basically just fills the current screen you are in, not creating a new 'desktop/space' (the gif on my blog post shows this). APART from that you can also configure iTerm to show up on all desktops - i.e. I'll have documentation on desktop 1 and the actual site on desktop 2 and I can bring up the same terminal window with `alt space`. So I do think that the answer to your question is YES! That's probably the awesome thing about iTerm. There's no "super big killer feature" but it just provides enough options that whatever workflow you have/want, it most likely can support it. And nice to meet a fellow vimmer! Thanks for the appreciating the CSS ribbons too :)

ronjouch 11y ago

Kudos for the changelog starting with a very succinct summary + link, then expanding what changed :)

random3 11y ago

Love iTerm2, upgraded and donated :)

pmoriarty 11y ago

Is there a way to make a previously hidden iTerm window show without also bringing any other iTerm windows to the front? I'm looking to replace TotalTerminal with iTerm (since TT doesn't work on El Capitan without making OS X less secure), and tried using a function key to hide/show a small iTerm window, but while that does work, the problem is that when it shows the small window, it also shows my regular large iTerm window as well (which I have always running) and the times when I want to show the small iTerm window I don't want the large iTerm window obscuring what's behind it. Not sure if I explained that well, but that's what I'm hoping to find a way how to do: basically have a small, TotalTerminal-like iTerm2 window that pops up when I hit a certain keyboard shortcut, without also bringing up any other iTerm2 windows that I may have running in the background. I'm also open to suggestions for other TotalTerminal replacements that work on El Capitan.

pixelcloud 11y ago
Yes, they have had a visor feature for a long time actually. I'm not on my mac right now and i'm not 100% sure if this link is accurate anymore. But it's under the keyboard shortcuts or profile settings. It is not enabled by default, and you can create a new hotkey profile with more transparency or whatever, http://fokkezb.nl/2014/10/29/using-iterm2s-improved-visor/ http://fokkezb.nl/2014/10/29/using-iterm2s-improved-visor/
- ViViDboarder 11y ago
  That brings other iTerm windows to the foreground. There is a ticket to fix this, but it's bound by limitations from how OSX does app switching (according to the ticket).
nicolasp 11y ago
> Is there a way to make a previously hidden iTerm window show without also bringing any other iTerm windows to the front? HyperDock[1] Lets you do that. [1] https://bahoom.com/hyperdock/ https://bahoom.com/hyperdock/

Ezhik 11y ago

Why is it not called iTerm3?

biztos 11y ago

I'm late to the thread but just wanted to say THANK YOU for all the hard work in general; and especially now for this: "iTerm2 can change your profile (for example, affecting the color of your terminal) when you ssh to a remote host, when you run sudo, or even depending on your current directory." Like many people, I use profiles mostly to have different colors for different hosts. This will make my workflow a little easier and a lot more consistent Every. Single. Day. Köszönöm!

spleeder 11y ago

One of my favorite new features has got to be true color support.

a-b 11y ago

I'm waiting for mutt and weechat to adopt a new iTerm2 inline images feature. That would be epic!

sadiqevani 11y ago

I freaking love it, especially tabs and fonts, thank you for the hard work man.