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iTerm2 is so good, it’s worth using macOS just for the crazy good terminal. I love the quake term hotkey access and while I’m sure other terminals can easily do
by adamomada 2y ago
iTerm2 is so good, it’s worth using macOS just for the crazy good terminal. I love the quake term hotkey access and while I’m sure other terminals can easily do it too, I think it might have been the first?
- vundercind 2y agoTerminal.app, even, is no slouch among terminal programs. Uncommonly-great input latency, for one thing.
- c-hendricks 2y agoI think the only thing keeping me on iterm is terminal.app's lack of a way to easily disable mouse integration. If you're using a TUI that works with the mouse but need to select some text, in iterm you hold Option and can select. In Terminal.app you need to use the menu to turn mouse handling off, select your text, then turn it back on.
- vundercind 2y agoYeah, Terminal.app isn’t necessarily better than iterm2, depending on what you need out of your terminal emulator. The latter’s got more features, for sure. The Mac platform’s just blessed with two way-above-average terminal emulators, one installed by default, is all I mean.
- cromka 2y agoI believe Yakuake/Kuake for KDE first introduced it some 20 or so years ago. I’ve been using it since its early days on Linux. EDIT: looks like someone even investigated that: https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/ https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/