Questions tagged [iterm2]
iTerm2 is an open source Terminal replacement for OS X
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Can I have the terminal prompt at the vertical middle of a window?
I just realized that I hunch over a lot when using the terminal since the prompt is always at the bottom of the terminal window, which is vertically maximized.
I would like the prompt to be at the ...
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Everytime I open iTerm my .zshrc file gets a new vscode Path line
# iTerm
# CMD + D to split screen (left right)
# CMD + D + Shift to split screen (up down)
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/...
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Changing the font size of Tab information in Iterm
I use a High Resolution external monitor at work and increase the font size in my terminal for better visibility.
But the text on the tab bar is stuck at the default size. Changing the font size does ...
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Ctrl+b appearing as '^B' at command line
I noticed this behavior in tmux, but it also happens when I have no session attached. Instead of entering as the command key binding Ctrl+b, ^B is printed to the command line. I don't have a .tmux....
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Make cmd-click on a file name in iTerm add that filename to the command
By default, iTerm lets you cmd-click filenames and urls to open them with the system's default app. I want to be able to change that so it adds the filename to the command I'm currently typing.
This ...
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Set window title in iTerm with zsh
I am using iTerm2 in my mac with zsh. I have set DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true" within .zshrc. Now I can use title to set window and tab titles. But it the title which appears in the title has the running ...
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Please make my terminal behave like a word processor because I'm old and jaded
How do I make the terminal input behave like a multi-line word processor that lets me select text, delete some text (no hex codes), move around, then only really send it over the wire when I press ...
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Is it possible to use vim key bindings in iterm2?
I want to use w for next word and b for previous word. If I could do more than that I would be even happier.
I use bash if that matters.
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Why does iTerm paste when I left click in the terminal
Every so often I come back to a iTerm2 (v3.1.6) terminal window and for whatever reason when I left click anywhere in the window it will paste whatever is on my clipboard. This has happened many times ...
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How can I change the page depth when using screen on iterm2 to connect to a router?
Let's say I'm connecting to a router with 'screen' through a terminal (iterm2) and I want to view a log or a configuration. It will only display 1 page at a time and I have to press Enter or Space to ...
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Can I display whitespace characters in iTerm2
In most text editors I can display whitespace characters, e.g. tabs as arrows ⟶ , spaces as middle dots ·
Is it possible to do this in iTerm2?
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How to update Mac iTerm2 terminal prompt
I am using Mac 10.13.2 High Sierra. I made the following .bash_profile file to see the file path along with the prompt and if it has any Git repository it shows the Git status as well.
All is working ...
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iterm itermplot tmux scroll makes plots disappear
I have a tmux session in my iTerm2 window with a single pane. When I plot something using ipython (with itermplot) it appears as expected. As soon as I switch to scrolling mode ( [ ), the plot ...
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integrate tmux tabs with vim tabs
I'm trying to simplify the way that I navigate between tabs in my terminal. Using ssh <workstation> -t 'tmux -CC attach', I can get iTerm to display tmux tabs as native macOS tabs (and therefore ...
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Make alt/option key work as in all other applications
I'm using the alt/option key quite extensively, e.g. square brackets, curly brackets, jumping left/right etc.
The only way I've found to set alt/option to behave as it should (as in all other ...
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iTerm2 outputs random characters when the remote tmux exits abnormally
I use tmux on my remote terminal. I found that when the remote terminal was disconnected abnormally (e.g., I just closed my laptop without exiting remote terminal normally), my terminal on iTerm will ...
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iTerm2 shares the same instance across all macOS workspaces
Suddenly after a computer restart, my iTerm behaves differently, as the same iTerm2 instance is shard across all macOS workspaces.
If I open a new tab or open a new windows of iTerm2, these will ...
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git show on double click of commit hash in iTerm2
I am using iTerm2 with oh-my-zsh. git log --oneline shows me the git tree:
0b99548e commit A
eb980d4c commit B
e7e5e043 commit C
In order to view a commit, I need to do the following steps:
double ...
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Unable to start Firefox on CentOS 6 from iterm2 on Mac
I have installed Firefox and xauth on the CentOS 6.6 server as follows:
sudo yum install firefox
sudo yum install xauth
On my Mac, I am using iTerm2.
On my iTerm2 session, I also exported my ...
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Inverse bolded % at zsh prompt
This is minor but it's driving me crazy.
My prompt is followed by an inverse bolded % like so:
I want it to go away.
I am using: zsh with oh-my-zsh on iterm2
What I have tried:
I found this and ...
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How to remove username segment from powerline
I'd like to show only the dir name. Right now it's like this:
I'm using macOS + bash + iTerm. I've tried:
editing the ~/.config/powerline/config.json
changing the $PS env (which works without ...
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iTerm2 doesn't recognize Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right
TLDR; I couldn't get the Micro editor to recognize Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right key combinations. I thought I maybe have to add escape sequences to iTerm2 (screenshot). The Keyboard Shortcut input field (...
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How to completely disable iTerm2 pop up messages
I'm using iTerm2 on my Mac, build 3.1.3, and I am working with two tabs. One tab has my Python code in vim. The other one is where I actually run it with python code_here.py.
However, each time I ...
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syntax highlighting breaks off on vim as you page up/down (on OSX terminal and iterm2)
This is a weird bug
the problem is the syntax highlighting (say zenburn) on vim randomly appears and disappears as I page up and down (using ctrlu and ctrld).. for example compare these two renders ...
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how do I paste an icon to the terminal
I'm using iterm2 on mac. I'm using the oh-my-zsh and want to add my custom icons like these
I wondering if there is a list of all available icons and if mine is not there, how do I add it. I want to ...
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iTerm2 (version 3): Individual history per tab?
I’m using iTerm2 (version 3) and like it. But something that it has been doing for a while that's really annoying is that the command history is shared between tabs. E.g., in your first tab, run ...
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How to set a background color for the 'tab' character
I want to apply a background color to tabs in iTerm 2.
I tried using this:
echo -e "\033[42mas\tdf"
The above shows "as df" in Mac Terminal with the entire text colored with green background, but ...
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Copy the output of the last command in iTerm2
With the default Terminal.app, one can select the previous command output with Cmd + Shift + A and then copy it with Cmd + C (source).
Is there a similar shortcut for iTerm2?
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Custom iTerm appearance doesn't save after quitting iTerm
I'm new to Mac. Recently, I just installed iTerm2 and I also changed some of its fonts and theme (Oh My Zsh). All the changes worked perfectly but when I close iTerm everything reset to its default ...
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Moving mouse in iTerm causes characters to be to printed to prompt
I am having an issue with iTerm that happens to me intermittently. When I am using iTerm and I move the mouse up and down, or click a bunch of random characters are printed to the prompt:
I am in a ...
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Can not bind Ctrl-o in Bash inside iTerm2 on macOS Sierra
I am not able for the life of me to rebind Ctrl-o on iTerm2/Bash.
Here is my stty -a flags for cchars:
cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^...
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Error on iTerm2 fish shell load: `function: Illegal function name '-v'`
On iTerm2 load:
Last login: ... on ...
function: Illegal function name '-v'
~/.iterm2_shell_integration.fish (line 86): function -v _ underscore_change
if [ x$_ = xfish ]
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Nano opens extremely slow on mac while using ZSH?
Whenever I type try to open a file using nano on my mac while in ZSH, it takes about 4 seconds before nano actually opens and I'm unsure why. Does anyone have suggestions to debug this issue and ...
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How do I use tmux 2.4's double/triple click to select text with bash/iTerm2?
Following on this question from 2013 and this question from 2015, has anyone identified how to use tmux 2.4's new Support for mouse double and triple clicks to select text without modifier keys? I'm ...
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How Can I Perform ALT + > in Iterm2
In a standard bash shell one can go backwards through the history by hitting the UP key, and forwards by hitting the DOWN key. If you've hit up a bunch and want to get back to the start you can hit ...
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Why does fish shell create a hidden process in iTerm2
I've moved from bash to fish shell in iTerm2. However, whenever I start iTerm2, I receive the following error message:
A session ended very soon after starting. Check that the command in
profile ...
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zsh in iTerm2 showing spaces in place of newlines
I've been using iTerm 2 on a new MacBook for a couple of days with ZSH.
When I run a command which produces several lines of output, the second line appears to start after the end of the first.
For ...
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Why is a (working) iTerm2 not staying in the Mac taskbar?
I have iTerm2 installed in /Applications on my MacBook Pro (running OSX Sierra), but if I right-click and select the option to pin it to the taskbar and log out and in again, there's some form of the ...
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iterm2's drop-down auto command complete doesn't work on remote sessions
On remote hosts via ssh the cmd + ; command works in displaying part of the suggested command but the "Auto Command Completion" feature doesn't. How can I make the shown feature here work on remote ...
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What does "Login shell" do?
Recently I experience slow terminal launch time, so I looked into it and found an interesting thing.
I am using iTerm on MacBook. There is an option choosing the default behavior:
If I chose "Login ...
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Command-L "Clear to the previous mark" equivalent in iTerm2
In Mac OSX there is the command-L command to "clear to the previous mark"
I was curious if there is a command equivalent to this in the iTerm2 terminal because I would like to switch over, but I use ...
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iterm2: Ctrl-C doesn't work sometimes
I'm using iTerm2 on Mac OSX (10.10.5).
Recently I encounter something very strange: after using iTerm2 for a while, Ctrl-C would stop working. Initially it was fine. Only after a certain period of ...
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Rails "Cannot read termcap database;"
Whenever I start my rails console I'm running into two problems:
I'm getting these cryptic errors messages.
My control-L isn't working (it's intended use it to clear the screen)
Console output:
$ ...
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iTerm Color Scheme | Profile Command
I'm using prezto with iTerm and in my .zshrc, I have the following line that changes the color scheme:
sh ~/.vim/plugins/gruvbox/gruvbox_256palette_osx.sh
However, sometimes when I click ⌘ + R, I ...
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The arrow keys, even when disabled in vimrc, type ABCD then go into insert mode. Why?
When I hit the arrow keys in vim I get the behavior illustrated in
this illustrated Gif.
I would like to only use hjkl to navigate. Any time I hit the arrow keys (up, down, left or right) I want it ...
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iTerm2: Get the tab number from bash shell
For the day to day work, I login to a remote machine from my Mac through VNC. The font rendering in VNC viewer, and the resolution etc are horrible when seen on the retina display. So I use iTerm2 + ...
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AppleScript for iTerm2 to activate or create session
I'm trying to write an AppleScript for iTerm2 that for a fixed profile ("session"?) name, let's say "Dev Server", checks whether there is a tab with that profile in any window (or just the current ...
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python 3.5 console not able to type the 'c' key
I have a very strange problem when using the python3 console. Whenever I type c (the actual c character) what gets written is the <tab> character. So in essence I can't type anything that ...
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In iTerm2, can you set multiple working directories in tabs for a Profile on startup?
I'm doing a lot of work with Roots, a dev-friendly WordPress setup. I'd like to open up multiple tabs in iTerm2 (vagrant box, WP app directory, theme directory etc) but I can only find how to set one ...
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iterm2 triggers copy/paste, import/export
On the Mac's iTerm2 terminal, I have set a bunch of highlight text options in Preferences->Profiles->(select a profile)->Advanced (tab)->Triggers->Edit. Mine is specifically to highlight the text [...
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