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I love iTerm3, but the speed compared to Terminal.app sometimes makes me jealous. So I guess we all need a faster term emulator :)

by steeve 10y ago

eridius 10y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you love iTerm? It's always struck me as kind of ugly (especially its preferences). And AFAIK, the only real feature it has that Terminal.app doesn't (besides the native tmux integration, because I still don't really see the point) is support for apps customizing the 256-color palette on the fly (e.g. the initc capability), and wile I really would like to see Terminal.app gain support for that seeing as how the xterm-256color terminfo it uses declares that it works, lack of support for that isn't a good enough reason to switch away.
- zie 10y ago
  iTerm has https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss. Integration of your 1Password passwords with your terminal, which makes life amazing. Typing and copy/pasting passwords(not to mention copy/paste is not exactly secure) is a major time-suck. I'd love generic support for this feature in something like Alacritty.
  - eridius 10y ago
    Interesting, but I don't think I've ever felt the pain of not having that. It's pretty damn easy for me to use the global 1Password hotkey to bring up 1Password Mini, type a few characters to identify the login I want, hit → to expand the login, ↓ to select the password, and ↩ to then copy that password, which I can now paste into the terminal. It's not that hard.
    - zie 10y ago
      with sudolikeaboss, it's hotkey, down arrow(↓) to the one you want, press enter(↩). A lot less keystrokes!
      - eridius 10y ago
        Unless you're entering your sudo password with every other command you type, it doesn't seem like it would make much difference either way, it's pretty darn fast already.
- fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
  The coolest feature of recent versions of iTerm is the "Selection respects soft boundaries" feature: with it on, iTerm will detect vim/tmux splits and constrain the selection to just one side of that split. For my workflow, at least, it makes a huge difference. Also, if you start tmux as "tmux -CC" iTerm will open the tmux session in a new window, with GUI tabs for tmux tabs and GUI splits for tmux splits.
  - eridius 10y ago
    That selection thing sounds kind of interesting, though tbh I almost never use vertical splits in the Terminal. The only place I do is in MacVim.
  - Arubis 10y ago
    I had no idea that soft boundary selection option existed. That's wonderful, thank you!
- kbd 10y ago
  FWIW one of the biggest reasons I use iTerm is the hotkey window.

I love iTerm3, but the speed compared to Terminal.app sometimes makes me jealous. So I guess we all need a faster term emulator :)

by steeve 10y ago

I love iTerm3, but the speed compared to Terminal.app sometimes makes me jealous. So I guess we all need a faster term emulator :)

eridius 10y ago

Out of curiosity, why do you love iTerm? It's always struck me as kind of ugly (especially its preferences). And AFAIK, the only real feature it has that Terminal.app doesn't (besides the native tmux integration, because I still don't really see the point) is support for apps customizing the 256-color palette on the fly (e.g. the initc capability), and wile I really would like to see Terminal.app gain support for that seeing as how the xterm-256color terminfo it uses declares that it works, lack of support for that isn't a good enough reason to switch away.

zie 10y ago
iTerm has https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss. Integration of your 1Password passwords with your terminal, which makes life amazing. Typing and copy/pasting passwords(not to mention copy/paste is not exactly secure) is a major time-suck. I'd love generic support for this feature in something like Alacritty.
- eridius 10y ago
  Interesting, but I don't think I've ever felt the pain of not having that. It's pretty damn easy for me to use the global 1Password hotkey to bring up 1Password Mini, type a few characters to identify the login I want, hit → to expand the login, ↓ to select the password, and ↩ to then copy that password, which I can now paste into the terminal. It's not that hard.
  - zie 10y ago
    with sudolikeaboss, it's hotkey, down arrow(↓) to the one you want, press enter(↩). A lot less keystrokes!
    - eridius 10y ago
      Unless you're entering your sudo password with every other command you type, it doesn't seem like it would make much difference either way, it's pretty darn fast already.
fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
The coolest feature of recent versions of iTerm is the "Selection respects soft boundaries" feature: with it on, iTerm will detect vim/tmux splits and constrain the selection to just one side of that split. For my workflow, at least, it makes a huge difference. Also, if you start tmux as "tmux -CC" iTerm will open the tmux session in a new window, with GUI tabs for tmux tabs and GUI splits for tmux splits.
- eridius 10y ago
  That selection thing sounds kind of interesting, though tbh I almost never use vertical splits in the Terminal. The only place I do is in MacVim.
- Arubis 10y ago
  I had no idea that soft boundary selection option existed. That's wonderful, thank you!
kbd 10y ago
FWIW one of the biggest reasons I use iTerm is the hotkey window.