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I use iTerm (unfortunately only available for macOS) [1] There’s a theme that makes it look compact (nicer?) [2] iTerm is native, supports plugins (Python scr
by guessmyname 7y ago
I use iTerm (unfortunately only available for macOS) [1]
There’s a theme that makes it look compact (nicer?) [2]
iTerm is native, supports plugins (Python scripting API), is CPU/RAM friendly, with milliseconds input (very important for touch typing), it’s open source (GPL v2) [3][4], the author is a proficient programmer which I hope to sponsor via GitHub Sponsors program soon [5] although you can already sponsor him via Patreon [6], offers smooth split panes, hotkey, buffer search, intelligent autocomplete, instant replay, an exaggerated amount of extra options available from the application settings, additional shell integrations, inline images, password manager, annotations, and the list of features continues with the beta builds.
Having spent several years using Linux (xterm [7], gnome-terminal [8], guake [9], terminator [10], among others), then moving on to macOS (Terminal.app [11] then iTerm.app), and with the recent news in the Windows world [12], I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser, when there’s a good list of alternatives using native libraries and UI, with much more performance, and better features.
But as people say, to each their own.
[1] https://www.iterm2.com/features.html https://www.iterm2.com/features.html
[2] https://i.imgur.com/46mY0O6.png https://i.imgur.com/46mY0O6.png
[3] https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2 https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2
[4] https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
[5] https://github.com/gnachman https://github.com/gnachman
[6] https://www.patreon.com/gnachman https://www.patreon.com/gnachman
[7] https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ https://invisible-island.net/xterm/
[8] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal
[9] http://guake-project.org/ http://guake-project.org/
[10] https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstarted.html https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstar...
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28macOS%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28macOS%29
[12] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
- VvR-Ox 7y agoThis is so true! I hate that I can't use iTerm2 on linux and I think it's quite ironic that the best terminal emulator is not made for linux and on top of that also free (instead of many other OSX apps). Hope some day we'll get it there - maybe with the github sponsoring option he'll get enough to implement it for linux? Who knows.
- apas 7y agoHappy iTerm user as well. The only thing I don't like is the increased and visible latency compared to Terminal.app when creating new tabs or windows.
- crispinb 7y ago> I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser, It's honestly been the least problematic option I've found on Windows. Everything else I've tried has had some issue somewhere, or some oddness with tmux. But I can't see why you'd bother with it on Linux or a OS X, both of which have great options. > with the recent news in the Windows world Cause for optimism, but Windows Terminal isn't really ready yet.
- panpanna 7y agoOne month. We only need to wait one more month for the new windows terminal. If the terminal team is anything like the vscode team, it will be a very interesting summer.
- crispinb 7y agoI know. I'm a diehard IntelliJ user, but I've been playing with the vscode remote development extension for wsl. Really very impressive.