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The killer feature for me is Edit>Selection Respects Soft Boundaries, which lets you copy text from inside windows defined INSIDE the terminal - like tmux or em
by dmd 2y ago
The killer feature for me is Edit>Selection Respects Soft Boundaries, which lets you copy text from inside windows defined INSIDE the terminal - like tmux or emacs splits - where iTerm figures out that, e.g., a pipe character is a window boundary.
Two more:
2) if you accidentally close a tab/window, you have a few seconds to hit ⌘z and the window will reappear as if you never closed it!
3) Minimum color contrast. If your terminal color scheme and what you're running's color scheme interact poorly to create something that would be unreadable, iterm notices and you can have it override those colors to be something of higher contrast, automatically.
But that's just my killer features. iTerm is like Word - it is a bloated monster with thousands of features. Nobody needs them all, but nobody agrees on which ones they need.
- olyjohn 2y agoBeing able to SSH into multiple machines, and mirror your keyboard across all of them is my favorite feature.
- dmd 2y ago... a feature I've never used or had a need for thus showing my point precisely :)
- happymellon 2y agoHonestly, it sounds like an anti-feature or a crutch. Designed to help environments that haven't reached 2010 era of automation of Salt or Chef.
- rigrassm 2y agoMeh, I've used it numerous times in situations like setting up some clustered software to explore for the first time. Just fire up your 3 vms, ssh into each of them in their own panes, hotkey to activate broadcast mode, start creating/editing your config(s) and tuning your server. It really is useful in the right scenarios, sure you shouldn't adopt it as your "official method for provisioning production servers" but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a legitimate use case or is a "crutch".
- michaelcampbell 2y ago> Honestly, it sounds like an anti-feature or a crutch. Every feature to one person can be a crutch to the next. Adding Salt or Chef to anything also increases the attack surface.
- wkat4242 2y agoOk those things are interesting though not killer level for me. But I moved away from Mac now because I found their stuff too opinionated. I use KDE now. I wonder if iTerm2 also exists on Linux if it's open source?
- happymellon 2y agoIf you use KDE, then you already understand that having other peoples opinions forced on you doesn't always work. You probably don't need iTerm because the KDE (and the Gnome tbh) consoles are so much better than the built-ins that come with Mac and Windows.
- wkat4242 2y agoYes this is indeed exactly why I moved from Mac to KDE and why I donate to them. They still understand that in this day and age of opinionated design. I have KDE very heavily customised, but the cool thing is that unlike Gnome I didn't have to use a single plugin to do it (which always causes issues upgrading). Everything I wanted to change was available as a setting somewere. And yeah I use Konsole, it's great! <3 MacOS wasn't so bad in the beginning, it used to be a Unix with good UI, but over the years Apple has been very busy replacing extensive settings with annoying on/off sliders (or nothing at all). Especially on macOS Server (if that's still a thing).