If you're comfortable with 'screen', you can do multiple visible split screen sessions, just not sure about a command to drive them all (been awhile since I've used screen).
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? yes, but there are still ssh multiplexing things for the CLI. VIsually, everything is fine, it just gets unresponsive when switching between tabs and/or windows. What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Also attached the Activity Monitor Sample of iTerm2 process as requested iTerm2 is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality.Also attached a screenshot of 'About This Mac'.Also attached a screenshot of one of my tabs with split windows.I have multiple tabs open, some have split windows, some do not.And the split terminals are shown as different tabs which can be confusing at. Run it and you'll see that it will divide the terminal into two horizontal sessions. Cmder: Better than windows as there is a user interface to change Setting/Preference but is not as easier as iTerm2, though the right-clicking on the terminal screen can be changed to context menu from pasting (default), the context menu user interface is not better. usr/bin/osascript tell application 'iTerm2' tell current session of current tab of current window split horizontally with default profile end tell end tell. Create a file sessions.scpt with the content below. I've attached my preferences file: ~/Library/Preferences/ Let's now automate creation of multiple sessions. Changing focus between the split windows within the same tab is quite slow (unresponsive for 2-3 seconds at times). Switching between tabs has become quite slow at times, especially tabs with split windows. FunctionĮnter Character Selection Mode in Copy ModeĬopy actions goes into the normal system clipboard which you can paste like normal.By puv. iTerm2 supports operating system features such as window transparency, full-screen mode, split panes, Exposé Tabs, Growl notifications, and standard keyboard shortcuts. Moving by word on a line (this is a shell thing but passes through fine)Ĭursor Jump with Mouse (shell and vim - might depend on config)Ĭopy and Paste with iTerm without using the mouse iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for macOS, licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later. (go to beginning of current line) but that doesn't work in the shell. For example ⌘ + Left Arrow is usually the same as Home
Keys and Mac equivalents don't always work. Use this instead of typing clear over and over.Ī lot of shell shortcuts work in iterm and it's good to learn these because arrow keys, home/end When this doesn't work ⌘ + K will tell iTerm to do it which works when you aren't in a shell. Especially when your last command was wrong by a single typo or something. This takes you off the home row but it's easy to rememberįast way to jump to a word to correct a typo or "run again" with minor changes Ctrl-R is faster if you know the string you are looking for. Use this with command history to repeat commands and changing one thing at the end!Ĭycle and browse your history with up and down. Press Alt+Right and Alt+Left to switch between active tabs. To close a tab, click on the Terminal toolbar or right-click the tab and select Close Tab from the context menu. It preserves tab names, the current working directory, and even the shell history. Use this to start over typing without hitting Ctrl-C The Terminal saves tabs and sessions when you close the project or IntelliJ IDEA. it offers some other good features of iterm2 like horizontal and vertical window split. In Terminal, I could use Cmd+D to split the window with the same session. Straightfoward, useful - but not what I want. Hopefully some of these change your life. My current picks for my favorite Linux iTerm2 replacements are. In iTerm2, Cmd+D adds another pane in the window with a new session. To do it sometimes so adopt what you like best. There are many tips but I use these quite a bit. I'm assuming you are using bash or zsh on Mac. These might be helpful to getting you faster with the shell but really this ⌘+ Left Arrow (I usually move by tab number) You can navigate among split panes with cmd-opt-arrow or cmd- and cmd. The shortcuts cmd-d and cmd-shift-d divide an existing session vertically or horizontally, respectively. ⌘ + Shift + Enter (use with fullscreen to temp fullscreen a pane!)Ĭtrl + ⌘ + Arrow (given you haven't mapped this to something else) Split Panes iTerm2 allows you to divide a tab into many rectangular 'panes', each of which is a different terminal session. ⌘ + Alt + Shift and then drag the pane from anywhere ⌘ + Shift + D (mnemonic: shift is a wide horizontal key) ⌘ + backtick (true of all mac apps and works with desktops/mission control)