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Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come

Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, but I don't find that worth the quirks that come with e.g. iTerm2.

danpalmer 4y ago
Absolutely. The only major feature of iTerm2 that I use over the Apple Terminal feature set is the tmux integration, so that my tabs can exist on my server and my terminal is more of a thin-client.
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eddyg 4y ago
True Color support is a big enough reason to switch from Terminal.app to iTerm2.app. But beyond the cool Quake-style "hot key" overlay terminal that's always at the ready, once you start using other features of iTerm, you'll really appreciate all the amazing features it has! For example: - being able to press Cmd-Shift-E to quickly show/hide timestamp overlays for your entire scrollback - pressing Opt-Cmd-B to open the time-slider of the Instant Replay feature to go back and grab output from the terminal that's not in your scrollback because it was clobbered by `less` messing up your screen - pressing Cmd-/ to highlight the active cursor - pressing Opt-Cmd-M to set an annotation at the cursor so you can quickly jump through your scrollback to them with Opt-Shift-Cmd-↑ and Opt-Shift-Cmd-↓ - want to know when a long-running command finishes? Just press Opt-Cmd-A in that window or pane to set an alert and you'll get a macOS notification when the prompt appears (be sure to enable Shell Integration: https://iterm2.com/documentation-shell-integration.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-shell-integration.html) the list goes on and on... like `vi`, iTerm rewards study of its capabilities. No other terminal comes close...
- faitswulff 4y ago
  These tips are blowing my mind. Thank you!
- efrecon 4y ago
  What a fantastic bunch of features! What Linux terminal has a similar offering?
lelanthran 4y ago
> Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, On Linux I use yakuake for that (was in the repo), added it to the startup applications for my desktop environment. On my Macbook Air I didn't find anything suitable.
- Lownin 4y ago
  iTerm has this feature https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-style-terminal-on-mac-os/ https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-...
crispinb 4y ago
> Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown I think that should be a window-manager feature anyway. Not sure about other platforms, but at least on desktop linux there are options to put any app into something like a quake dropdown.

danpalmer 4y ago

Absolutely. The only major feature of iTerm2 that I use over the Apple Terminal feature set is the tmux integration, so that my tabs can exist on my server and my terminal is more of a thin-client.

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eddyg 4y ago

True Color support is a big enough reason to switch from Terminal.app to iTerm2.app. But beyond the cool Quake-style "hot key" overlay terminal that's always at the ready, once you start using other features of iTerm, you'll really appreciate all the amazing features it has! For example: - being able to press Cmd-Shift-E to quickly show/hide timestamp overlays for your entire scrollback - pressing Opt-Cmd-B to open the time-slider of the Instant Replay feature to go back and grab output from the terminal that's not in your scrollback because it was clobbered by `less` messing up your screen - pressing Cmd-/ to highlight the active cursor - pressing Opt-Cmd-M to set an annotation at the cursor so you can quickly jump through your scrollback to them with Opt-Shift-Cmd-↑ and Opt-Shift-Cmd-↓ - want to know when a long-running command finishes? Just press Opt-Cmd-A in that window or pane to set an alert and you'll get a macOS notification when the prompt appears (be sure to enable Shell Integration: https://iterm2.com/documentation-shell-integration.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-shell-integration.html) the list goes on and on... like `vi`, iTerm rewards study of its capabilities. No other terminal comes close...

faitswulff 4y ago
These tips are blowing my mind. Thank you!
efrecon 4y ago
What a fantastic bunch of features! What Linux terminal has a similar offering?

lelanthran 4y ago

> Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, On Linux I use yakuake for that (was in the repo), added it to the startup applications for my desktop environment. On my Macbook Air I didn't find anything suitable.

Lownin 4y ago
iTerm has this feature https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-style-terminal-on-mac-os/ https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-...

crispinb 4y ago

> Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown I think that should be a window-manager feature anyway. Not sure about other platforms, but at least on desktop linux there are options to put any app into something like a quake dropdown.