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iTerm 2 in early development

by TJ Luoma Sep 2nd 2010 at 5:00PM

Power users of the command-line are no doubt familiar with iTerm, the free replacement terminal application. iTerm has been the go-to alternative for people who wanted tabbed windows and other advanced features.

Development of iTerm has been fairly slow and irregular. The initial release was back in 2002 and the 0.10 release is almost a year old. A look at the version history shows very little has happened since 2006.

A "fork" of the project is now available on Google Code and goes by the name iterm2. The current version, labeled "Alpha 6" was just released yesterday. On the surface it looks pretty much the same, until you get into the bookmarks, preferences, and profiles which have been completely rewritten.

Thanks to TUAW reader Nikola Knezevic for sending this in!



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studio@arcanaconcept.com

I've been waiting for some time to see this get picked up again. I use iTerm religiously, would love to see 64 bit support.

September 10 2010 at 7:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
marcus derencius

The feature I love most on iterm is the full screen mode. And the only "feature" I miss is a larger history.

just started to test iterm2. :)

September 03 2010 at 11:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
George Nachman

Link got yoinked. The address is http://sites.google.com/site/iterm2home/

September 03 2010 at 2:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Doc Rock

Thanks for the link I was missing iTerm. Thanks for the new version in advance

September 03 2010 at 6:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
George Nachman

Hi, I'm the developer of iTerm2. There's also a product page at iTerm2 which has more information for users.

September 03 2010 at 2:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ooglek

iTerm still wins over Terminal in my book for 3 key features:

1. Command+click on a URL opens in your default browser. In Terminal you have to Ctrl+click then click "Open URL." Saves a click, and for as many URLs as I have to click from Terminal (I use Alpine for email), it's worth it.

2. Selected text is automatically copied to the clipboard. This does not happen in Terminal -- you must Command+C to copy.

3. Bookmarks. Being able to save different fonts, execute commands on opening, and open bookmarks with a shortcut is awesome. Ctrl+Command+1 2 3 4 and I've opened up 4 SSH connections to 4 different boxes in separate tabs. Oh so nice.

THAT is why iTerm is still relevant and why I'm so happy to hear that development is continuing!

September 03 2010 at 10:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Xac

iTerm died after Leopard because Apple put every notable feature including tabs and color schemes into the Terminal app. I don't see any reason to use iTerm anymore.

September 03 2010 at 8:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Frank

Terminal's fine, until you start using vim. After some many iterations (count from NeXT days), Terminal still doesn't support 256 colors.

September 22 2010 at 12:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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