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0 pointseridius9y ago0 comments

Out of curiosity, why do you love iTerm? It's always struck me as kind of ugly (especially its preferences). And AFAIK, the only real feature it has that Terminal.app doesn't (besides the native tmux integration, because I still don't really see the point) is support for apps customizing the 256-color palette on the fly (e.g. the initc capability), and wile I really would like to see Terminal.app gain support for that seeing as how the xterm-256color terminfo it uses declares that it works, lack of support for that isn't a good enough reason to switch away.

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fiddlerwoaroof9y ago· 2 in thread

The coolest feature of recent versions of iTerm is the "Selection respects soft boundaries" feature: with it on, iTerm will detect vim/tmux splits and constrain the selection to just one side of that split. For my workflow, at least, it makes a huge difference.

Also, if you start tmux as "tmux -CC" iTerm will open the tmux session in a new window, with GUI tabs for tmux tabs and GUI splits for tmux splits.

eridiusOP9y ago

That selection thing sounds kind of interesting, though tbh I almost never use vertical splits in the Terminal. The only place I do is in MacVim.

Arubis9y ago

I had no idea that soft boundary selection option existed. That's wonderful, thank you!

zie9y ago· 2 in thread

iTerm has https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss. Integration of your 1Password passwords with your terminal, which makes life amazing. Typing and copy/pasting passwords(not to mention copy/paste is not exactly secure) is a major time-suck. I'd love generic support for this feature in something like Alacritty.

eridiusOP9y ago

Interesting, but I don't think I've ever felt the pain of not having that. It's pretty damn easy for me to use the global 1Password hotkey to bring up 1Password Mini, type a few characters to identify the login I want, hit → to expand the login, ↓ to select the password, and ↩ to then copy that password, which I can now paste into the terminal. It's not that hard.

zie9y ago

with sudolikeaboss, it's hotkey, down arrow(↓) to the one you want, press enter(↩). A lot less keystrokes!

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kbd9y ago

FWIW one of the biggest reasons I use iTerm is the hotkey window.

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