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ITerm2 1.0 Released
- tptacek 15y agoI wasn't a fan of iTerm "1". What's new in 2? Someone got a summary? I don't see it on their site.
- JonnieCache 15y agoIts a fork, and its basically completely different now. I reccomend giving it a try. I use it because of the more powerful keyboard binding, but it has many other features. edit: no idea why i thought it was googles fork. corrected.
- akanet 15y agoThe main iTerm 2 guy works at Google
- snippyhollow 15y agoIt's fast. iTerm 1 was __very__ slow, and if you code in vim (not gVim or MacVim) because you like to ctrl-Z/fg like me, you have to try iTerm 2. It's Terminal with a real fullscreen mode and the support of 256 colors. Plus some nice other things (autocomplete...).
- koudelka 15y agoYou might like the combination of MacVim and DTerm (http://decimus.net/DTerm http://decimus.net/DTerm).
- tednaleid 15y agoI 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 :)
- shabble 15y agoThe "Instant-Replay" (View->Go back in time) can be a handy little feature if you've ever wanted to look up something that turns out not to be in the scrollback because it was a full-screen app running on the alternate screen buffer, or whatever. It's also good for checking out /when/ something happened, after the fact. I've not used it much, but when I've needed to, it's been a lifesaver.
- jrockway 15y agoSo tmux with a shiny 200x200 icon?
- dmuino 15y agoI use it with tmux. The main reason I use it is because of its full screen support and the unixy behavior for focus follows mouse, copy on select, middle button paste.
- shabble 15y agoOne of the features slated for v1.1 or thereabouts is deep integration with tmux. http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABI0kqUUxoAjxhWW3AsWFis6bgvMoEbcTcA2N21ncmU/edit?hl=en&authkey=COHZn78P&pli=1 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABI0kqUUxoAjxhWW3AsWFis6... have some details on how it might work. (Also, learn the difference between a terminal multiplexer, and a terminal emulator :p)
- irahul 15y ago> (Also, learn the difference between a terminal multiplexer, and a terminal emulator :p) What difference the name makes? If this shiny new terminal emulator is touting something which a terminal multiplexer already does, from a user perspective, his reply is legit.
- shabble 15y agoA terminal multiplexer is a way to create and access multiple ttys from a single terminal (-emulator). Both of the most widely known (GNU Screen and tmux) are terminal-only apps - They require a terminal or terminal emulator to act as their user interface. Terminal emulators, as the name suggest, emulate terminals. Since most people don't tend to use dedicated VT100s any more, we use emulators like xterm, rxvt, Terminal.app, etc instead. A mux without an emulator to access it is pretty useless, whereas an emulator with some mux features can provide benefits not easily achievable with a standalone multiplexer. One example would be mouse-based text selection. Using vertical splits in tmux, and triple-clicking to select a full line will select the contents of both split regions, whereas a GUI app can limit it to one region. I'm sure there are plenty of other features.
- minimax 15y agoThe 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.
- irahul 15y agoThis should be it: http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features
- joeshaw 15y agoThe one that does it for me is Cmd-1, -2, -3, etc. jumping to the first, second, third, etc. tab within the current window. Terminal.app's behavior is to jump to the window numbered that way -- often across spaces -- which would always drive me crazy.
- creativeembassy 15y agoI've been using this replacement for Terminal.app while it's been in beta, and it's fantastic. It natively supports splitting, windowing, and tabs, and it has great keyboard shortcuts for navigation between all of your windows. It also has fullscreen mode (and top-of-screen mode) if you like to dedicate a Space to it. There's a Solarized theme for it if you're into that sort of thing. It supports Growl if you can't stand not being bugged about unnecessary information (or you can turn it off if you're the productive type). This is the very first thing I install on a new Mac for development. I highly recommend it.
- nicksergeant 15y agoWow, I had absolutely no idea iTerm did window splitting natively. I had been using dvtm for a while. Thanks for the tip!
- cschmidt 15y agoNotice that this is iTerm2, which I believe is a fork of iTerm, further developed by different people than the original iTerm.
- nicksergeant 15y agoYep I've been running iTerm2. I suppose I've just never looked for the window splitting.
- ams6110 15y agoTerminal.app has tabs, at least as of Snow Leopard. Also does split panes (but they are the same session). I use Terminal quite a lot but have not found it lacking enough to consider replacing it.
- bdunbar 15y agoOne feature of iTerm that we've come to depend on is 'Send input to all sessions'. Don't use it often, but I'm glad it is there.
- xer0x 15y ago+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.
- jharding 15y agoI downloaded iTerm2 about 20 minutes ago and I already love it. Anybody know of any downsides of using it over Terminal.app?
- brk 15y agoI'm not aware of any downsides, and I've been using iTerm2 for quite a while (a year?... haven't kept track of time).
- ulvund 15y agoI 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..
- qaexl 15y agoiTerm 2's visor mode was still a bit wonky so I keep Terminal.app around just for visor. But that was when I was using the alpha and beta versions. I've been using iTerm as my main vim screen for over a year now. iTerm 2 alpha chugged right along for this.
- phlyingpenguin 15y agoIs there a changelog somewhere obvious that I'm missing? It appears I've gone from 0.20 to 1.0, what am I getting here? The one in the source tree appears to be quite out of date.
- creativeembassy 15y agoI believe most of the features in their feature list were added since 0.2. I'm reading this now, and finding features that I've been needing and didn't realize they were done already. http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features
- billpaetzke 15y agoThey're using the forum to announce changes: http://groups.google.com/group/iterm2-discuss?pli=1 http://groups.google.com/group/iterm2-discuss?pli=1
- peterb 15y agoITerm2 combined with zsh and oh-my-zsh gives you super powers.
- danishkhan 15y agoI agree. I was a bash user for the longest time and iterm2 with oh-my-zsh is the best thing ever.
- ahmetalpbalkan 15y agoI love iTERM!
- TylerE 15y agoDoes the font rendering seem very different to anyone else? Using the same font (Anonymous Pro 14pt), I had to increase the vertical spacing from 1.0 (as it was in iTerm) to ~1.18 to get the same spacing. Bold is rendered differently (worse) too. It does seem quite a bit snappier on my old G5 though. Comparison shot: iTerm on the left, iterm2 on right: http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png
- SeoxyS 15y agoWhat app are you using to browse HN in CLI?
- JonnieCache 15y agoFiddle with the various anti-aliasing options, it should change back.
- gnachman 15y agoYep, it's different. AFAICT there is no "correct" way to lay out text in Cocoa, but this approach has pissed off the fewest people :-/
- thenduks 15y agoOff-topic: Something interesting about the aesthetics of text to point out here. I had to double-take which you said was left and which was right. I was sure that you were saying the left was iTerm2, because to me the one on the right has clearly superior text rendering (especially the bold)!
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- angerman 15y agoAwesome! 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.
- jacobbijani 15y agoYou can hide the scrollbar. Preferences -> Appearance -> Check "Hide scrollbar and resize control"
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- angerman 15y agothanks!
- shabble 15y agoThe 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`
- davidcuddeback 15y agoThank you! Being able to shorten the animation is the only thing I felt was missing. The default animation is way too long for my taste.
- icefox 15y agoWoot 0 cpu usage when it isn't doing anything!
- johnbender 15y ago#container { margin: 0 15%; } looks much better as #container { margin: 0 auto; } I expect downvotes but its a great app and it deserves a great website.
- Ein2015 15y agoWhat are these downvotes you speak of?
- SeoxyS 15y agoYou have to be kidding me, right? This app is so bloated and unpolished—it really doesn't feel like it belongs on the Mac. I'll take OSX Lion's sleek Terminal.app over iTerm any day. My favorite new feature, it lets you customize ANSI colors! Screenshot of Lion Terminal: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/kenneth_%E2%80%94_vim-20110707-120545.png http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/kenneth_%E2%80%94_vim-20110707-1... Edit: I know I'm going to get tons of downvotes for this. But it's my opinion that something sleek and simple is much more powerful than something with tons of bells and whistles, especially when it doesn't look very good. Edit2: To all those who bring up window splitting, the default terminal app does it too, as well as native fullscreen: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Screen_Shot_2011-07-07_at_12.30.42_PM-20110707-123055.png http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Screen_Shot_2011-07-07_at_12.30....
- mlinsey 15y agoI think only a few things in iTerm2 are really unpolished. That said, when a tool becomes part of how you do work for 14+ hours a day, feature-set and efficiency can matter more than simplicity and intuitiveness. After all, that's why we're using a command line in the first place! Terminal itself doesn't really "feel like it belongs on the Mac". I wouldn't want to spend all that time in a terminal without native screen splitting, just to pick one example of a cool iTerm 2 feature.
- fourspace 15y agoMy iTerm2 looks exactly like that screenshot, and is available now (unlike Lion).
- mgutz 15y agoMay I ask what is so bloated and unpolished? Back up your dribbling. I have been using iTerm for a while now and it's as fast normal Terminal. It has profiles. It has 256 colors so I can use the same VIM colorschemes.
- msc 15y agoI really like Profiles and Split Horizontally/Vertically
- bonaldi 15y ago
- jcoder 15y agoI just think it's interesting that iTerm2 has one author, but iterm2.com has three.
- shabble 15y agohttp://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/Credits 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.
- niels_olson 15y agosome other resources for those interested in terminal apps, what are some others? Guake: http://guake.org/ http://guake.org/ Yakuake: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29153 http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29153 Visor: http://visor.binaryage.com/ http://visor.binaryage.com/ SIMBL: http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php Solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
- tomislav 15y agoSolarized color theme for OS X Lion Terminal.app: https://github.com/tomislav/osx-lion-terminal.app-colors-solarized https://github.com/tomislav/osx-lion-terminal.app-colors-sol...
- shabble 15y agoIf you're using Terminal.app and SIMBL, there's also Mouseterm: https://github.com/brodie/mouseterm https://github.com/brodie/mouseterm and TerminalColors (http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/08/28/fixing-colors-in-terminal-app-on-10-6/ http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/08/28/fixing-colors-in-term...)
- zemanel 15y agoWoah was just looking and undeciced at the available iTerm palletes from the gallery and Solarized (dark for me) seems just what the doctor ordered
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- ajtaylor 15y agoThanks for the link to Solarized. I had never heard of it before, but I'm now trying it out for Textmate.
- deweller 15y agoI'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?
- shabble 15y agoThere'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 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 :)
- gnachman 15y agoiTerm2 currently supports a single group at the moment (called a Window Arrangement). If you need more than one, then applescript is your best bet for now.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI use screen for that, although scripting it is a pain in the ass. I'm considering trying tmux out.
- dkastner 15y agoI've created a quick fork of tmuxinator (originally used for defining sessions for tmux) to also generate iTerm setup scripts: https://github.com/dkastner/tmuxinator https://github.com/dkastner/tmuxinator
- joshu 15y agoHow do I switch between split windows?
- vito 15y agoCmd+Opt+Arrow keys
- shabble 15y agoSee the options under Window -> Select Split Pane (which also gives you their keyboard shortcuts) from the menu-bar. You can customise them locally (per-profile) or globally via the preferences as well.
- dboyd 15y agoI find turning on 'focus-follows-mouse' to be a great asset. Then I just hover over the pane I want.
- bsergean 15y agoFunny that this old UNIX approach is coming back. Using that I work (for every windows) and it's nice.
- gnachman 15y agoCmd-[ and Cmd-] navigate split panes in chronological order. Cmd-Opt-Arrow keys navigate through space.
- ducktype 15y agoWow, looks like they've fixed most of the problems I had with it in the past. The one thing I still miss from yakuake is to be able to select split-panes by numeric hotkey. Seems like you can only do it for separate tabs and windows, but my preferred workspace is a 2x2 visor window.
- gnachman 15y agoThere's a feature request open for this. Haven't figured out the details yet, but I want to make it easy to assign a keystroke to a session (like how RTS games let you define groups of vehicles/soldiers). Maybe in 1.1...
- markbao 15y agoiTerm 2 is essential.
- singingwolfboy 15y agoThe SVN repo doesn't have a tag for version 1.0. I know it's a quibble, but it's useful for people who maintain package managers like Macports. :(
- gnachman 15y agoFixed now. Googlecode truncates the listing in the web view, but it's under tags/v1_0_0
- singingwolfboy 15y agoThank you! It's now updated in Macports, as well. :)
- beck5 15y agoBeen playing with it this evening and it will be replacing terminal for me. I also found this nice collection of themes to pimp it out a little: https://github.com/baskerville/iTerm-2-Color-Themes https://github.com/baskerville/iTerm-2-Color-Themes
- creativeembassy 15y agoGood find! Here's the link to the Solarized color theme for iTerm2 as well. https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/iterm2-colors-solarized https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/iterm2-...
- scottschulthess 15y agoGreat job developers of iTerm2, it's really a pleasure to use on a day to day basis, if only it had really cool integration with tmux so I could actually use tmux instead of hate on it.
- shapeshed 15y agoI have been using tmux with the beta. After a bit of key remapping it works great.
- scottschulthess 15y agoI have been using tmux occasionally to, but the key mappings kill me. I just want it to be one stroke, not chorded...so what I want really is for an iterm window to behave like a tmux session, with tabs being windows etc
- shapeshed 15y agohappy beta user here rolling zsh with tmux and solarized. Looks great, works great
- draebek 15y agoI find iTerm/iTerm 2 invaluable for full screen mode, ability to turn off scroll bars (and still have a scroll back buffer--can't do this in Terminal.app and it kills me), and copy-on-select.
- now 15y agoAm I the only one seeing incredible slowdowns in this version when running screen? It’s really fast when you don’t run screen, but running, for example, ls in a moderately populated directory, through screen on iTerm is deadly slow.
- fedorabbit 15y agosplit pane seems to require configuration since default is "cmd+d" which is set to be shown desktop on some mac.
- andrewf 15y agoI mainly use iTerm2 because, unlike Terminal.app, it has gpm support. Being able to use a mouse while editing files over an SSH connection, without having to think about it, is a big win.
- grandalf 15y agoThis looks great. Two questions: - How does one change the background color for the panes that don't have focus? The black vs charcoal distinction is a bit too subtle for me. - Is it possible to map command-` to cycle between panes? If so, how?
- shabble 15y ago1) I don't think you can change the colour, but you can adjust the dimming level with: defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 SplitPaneDimmingAmount -float 0.25 # [range from 0-1.0, lower is darker] Maybe add a feature request for a 'inactive panes colour' widget to be added to the Profile colours tab. NB: Changing the dim amount seems to require a restart of iTerm to take effect. 2) Set a global keybinding (Prefs->Keys-> + button) to 'Select Menu Item...' from the very bottom of the list, and specify 'Next Pane' (no quotes) in the text field.
- grandalf 15y agothanks!
- mrkva 15y agoQuick question - is it possible to underline links a let them be opened by single click?
- shabble 15y agoIt's an open feature request. The current issue is finding a way to do so efficiently. Adding a mouse tracking region for each link (and moving it every time you scroll) is impractical, and I'm not well enough versed in the display storage structures to know how easily you could get the bounding box of a link and hit-test for it without a performance hit. Cmd-clicking them works though.
- nnutter 15y ago-1, click through three pages to get from "Download" to an actual download.
- dkastner 15y agoI forked tmuxinator to generate the appropriate applescript that will set up iTerm according to your tmuxinator config: https://github.com/dkastner/tmuxinator/commit/c96d04d994cd8cd0d6a4f16491225ea561d0d50f https://github.com/dkastner/tmuxinator/commit/c96d04d994cd8c...
- kungfooguru 15y agoI don't use screen locally so when I ssh into boxes and use screen I'm not screen in screen and have to double-a. So I like tabs. A feature that would be awesome (if it doesn't exist, by default at least it doesn't) is being able to have tabs per split. OSX's window manager is so poor in my opinion that I would love to be able to have a full screen iterm2 but I like to have one terminal on the left and one on the right which has many tabs -- just helps with the cluster I'm dealing with. So without being able to have tabs only on the right split I have to use two iterm2s. Just a thought.