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You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?

by dfc 15y ago

pjscott 15y ago
To elaborate on this: iTerm2 is much better than Terminal.app, and free. It seems to be the default thing that everybody recommends, and for good reason. http://www.iterm2.com/ http://www.iterm2.com/
- aiscott 15y ago
  I recently downloaded iTerm2 because I had been hearing this. I can't for the life of me see why anyone thinks it is better than Terminal. It might just be my usage pattern, which is basically tmux. I was even briefly excited about the so called tmux integration of iTerm2, but it actually made a great tool worthless.
- Void_ 15y ago
  Now I'm interested. Why is it better? I use terminal only to navigate and run commands, no Vim or Emacs. How will iTerm make my life better?
  - shaka881 15y ago
    It doesn't randomly barf terminal control sequences into the top of your Emacs buffers, for one. ;) I've lost count of how many times I broke my build because of something like "]24;" being inserted into the head of my source files.
- dedward 15y ago
  aiscott: terminal.app got a decent boost in Lion.. prior to that it was pretty lacking for people used to your basic linux terminal even. iterm2 fixed that up around the sametime andgot traction, thats all. you are nt missing anything, go with what wjorks for yourself.
rhubarbquid 15y ago
I've used the osx terminal for "real work" every day for about 6 years now...
- batista 15y ago
  I think the whole differences are in some edge cases (though for some those cases could be their bread and butter), like escape codes handling, advanced ncurses stuff, etc etc.
donw 15y ago
I've been using it for about six years as well, and every version is a little better. The only annoyance is having to add keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs, but to make up for that, it supports UTF-8 (Japanese/Chinese input) perfectly. Never got that working in iTerm, although newer versions might be better.
ralphleon 15y ago
The only thing that still annoys me is that you can't rename the tabs (without doing some silly work-around). I have 10 tabs in Terminal.app with "bash" written in them.

You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?

by dfc 15y ago

You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?

pjscott 15y ago

To elaborate on this: iTerm2 is much better than Terminal.app, and free. It seems to be the default thing that everybody recommends, and for good reason. http://www.iterm2.com/ http://www.iterm2.com/

aiscott 15y ago
I recently downloaded iTerm2 because I had been hearing this. I can't for the life of me see why anyone thinks it is better than Terminal. It might just be my usage pattern, which is basically tmux. I was even briefly excited about the so called tmux integration of iTerm2, but it actually made a great tool worthless.
Void_ 15y ago
Now I'm interested. Why is it better? I use terminal only to navigate and run commands, no Vim or Emacs. How will iTerm make my life better?
- shaka881 15y ago
  It doesn't randomly barf terminal control sequences into the top of your Emacs buffers, for one. ;) I've lost count of how many times I broke my build because of something like "]24;" being inserted into the head of my source files.
dedward 15y ago
aiscott: terminal.app got a decent boost in Lion.. prior to that it was pretty lacking for people used to your basic linux terminal even. iterm2 fixed that up around the sametime andgot traction, thats all. you are nt missing anything, go with what wjorks for yourself.

rhubarbquid 15y ago

I've used the osx terminal for "real work" every day for about 6 years now...

batista 15y ago
I think the whole differences are in some edge cases (though for some those cases could be their bread and butter), like escape codes handling, advanced ncurses stuff, etc etc.

donw 15y ago

I've been using it for about six years as well, and every version is a little better. The only annoyance is having to add keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs, but to make up for that, it supports UTF-8 (Japanese/Chinese input) perfectly. Never got that working in iTerm, although newer versions might be better.

ralphleon 15y ago

The only thing that still annoys me is that you can't rename the tabs (without doing some silly work-around). I have 10 tabs in Terminal.app with "bash" written in them.