Questions tagged [iterm]
iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.
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ssh session immediately on starting xterm
What's the most elegant way to start an xterm window that, instead of opening a bash shell for the local computer and requires me to execute my ssh command manually, opens an ssh session for remote ...
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Constant name of iterm2 tab
I can change the title of terminal tabs in iTerm2 by pressing CMD-I and setting some name. But as soon as I open e.g. vim and close it, tab name is reset to what my prompt says, instead of being "...
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Setting custom (Powerline) fonts in the default OSX Terminal app
I was able to set a custom font in Iterm 2 by setting the Non-ASCII option in Iterm's setting.
I was not able to find a similar option in the default Mac OS Terminal. How can I do this for Mac OS ...
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Create keyboard shortcut in iTerm that performs an action in different pane
I have an iTerm setup where I often have vim running in one split pane, and guard running in a different split pane.
So the keyboard focus stays almost exclusively in the pane running vim.
Once in a ...
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Open iTerm2 with ctrl+ctrl?
I recently switched from TotalTerminal (formerly Visor) to iTerm2 on Mac OS X. I used to be able to open TotalTerminal with the shortcut Ctrl Ctrl (two quick taps). Is this same shortcut possible in ...
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How do I issue M-S-<left-arrow> to Emacs running in iTerm on Mac OS Mavericks?
When I press that key combination I hear a bell and see 0D chars printed to the buffer instead of the command bound to that key chord being executed (org-table-delete-column in this case). M-<left-...
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iTerm 2 disable Fn keys
I'd like to achieve the following:
When iTerm 2 is my active window in OSX ML, I would like the FN keys to represent F1 - F12 and NOT the Fn's like Brightness and Sound. Whenever NOT in iTerm I would ...
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How do I set iTerm as the default terminal in OS X?
I want to configure iTerm2 to be the default terminal on my Mac (Mountain Lion 10.8.4), so that when I right-click on a folder and choose "New Terminal Tab at Folder", it should open iTerm.
How can I ...
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Set Tab Title to your current working directory instead of the current job name in zsh iterms
I'm running iTerms on my Mac OS X with zsh. With my workflow I have to switch between tab a lot and sometime I have to spend too much time just to find which tab is the one I'm looking for because all ...
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How can I partially clear my terminal scrollback?
I want to partially clear my terminal scrollback history, but only from where I have selected with my mouse in the scrollback and up. Is this possible? I'm on a Mac, and I use iTerm2 and Terminal.
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Homebrew: Terminal Emoticons How?
I use homebrew for package management on my mac. Today after updating homebrew I saw something I've never seen before;
There was a tiny beer emoticon in the terminal. How is this being done!? What ...
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Vim + iTerm2 color issues
I have trouble with the right Vim configuration. I'm using the latest version of Vim as well as the latest version of iTerm2.
I try to get the solarized colorscheme working, but without luck so far.
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File Corruptions when using Vim on iMac
I'm experiencing some strange file corruptions when editing PHP files in VIM/iTerm.
This is not exclusive to these but the corruptions are slightly different in Nano. Same issues appear in the ...
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How can I set TextMate as the default application when clicking on filenames in iTerm?
I'm using iTerm as my default bash shell with Mountain Lion
One of the features is when you click on a file name in the shell, it opens it in a TextEditor.
At the moment though, each time I click a ...
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iTerm 2 Profiles/Bookmarks
I know this is supposed to be really simple but for the life of me I can't figure out how to store all of the URL's that I typically log into on the iTerm 2 Profiles page. I come from a PuTTY ...
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iTerm.app vs Terminal.app
So, I just downloaded iTerm2. I am using zsh in both the apps. iTerm seems to be faster than Terminal.
What things matter when you have a wrapper application around a shell?
I want to use iTerm but ...
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Is there a way to store certain shortcut variables in iTerm or Terminal.app so that we can access them from any remote machine ?
I use alias for setting up shortcuts so that i need not type out often lengthy directory paths and such. But i ssh into multiple machines often and i cannot alias a bunch of stuff into all the remote ...
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Bind key in vim for switch window
Operation System: OS X
Console: iTerm
sh: zsh
This worked fine i go to bottom window from top:
map <c-down> <c-w><down>
imap <c-down> <esc><c-w><c-down>
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iTerm up arrow autocomplete
Recently, the up-arrow to scroll in my bash history in iTerm 2 stopped functioning as it did before. In the past, if I started typing a command (let's say, `curl') and then pressed up, it would only ...
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is there a linux equivalent of iTerm(mac) sending command to multiple tabs functionality?
in iTerm, you can send a command to execute simultaneously on a set of already opened tabs. Is there a way to do this in linux (with gnome-terminal preferably)?
for instance, supposed that I had 10 ...
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With Bash + iTerm2, how to name tabs?
In iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20120203), I typically open several tabs, each of which has split panes , and is about one particular theme of work, for example revision control, coding, managing files, mysql ...
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"^@" characters shown in SSH connection from OS X to Linux server
When I SSH into a Linux server via iTerm on OS X, running a PHP script,
there are some strange characters printed on the screen
What is this ^@ representing? These characters are not generated ...
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How can I copy the output from a remote command into the local clipboard?
I use iTerm2 as my terminal client in Mac OS X. On the local system I can use pbcopy and pbpaste to transfer data between the system clipboard and the terminal, but of course this doesn't work when ...
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iterm2 cannot toggle fullscreen when in 'top of screen' mode
I'm trying to toggle fullscreen in iTerm2 by pressing "cmd+enter".
Unfortunately it doesn't work when 'top of screen' style is selected in the profile settings (as shown in the attached png). When I ...
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Map MacVim (mvim) movement keys in iTerm2
This question has been asked in various forms and there are a few blog posts around the net but I can't seem to find one that works consistently. I'm going to ask it for my (and perhaps other's) ...
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Programmatically set the color of a tab in iTerm2?
My daily workflow includes me
Launching iTerm2
Creating 3 tabs
Setting one tab each to red, orange and yellow
Changing to a specific path in each tab
I would like to script this process; shell, ...
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Color scheme not applied in iTerm2
I haven't been able to apply any color scheme to iTerm2.
It looks like that the Basic Colors are applied, but the ANSI Colors are not (as shown in Preferences>Profiles>Colors).
Using Mac OSX 10.7....
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Difference between tmux and shell split options on iTerm2?
I currently switched to iTerm2 + VIM for my dev environment. I noticed that the last version of iTerm2 supports tmux and there were people using tmux to split the window into several sessions. I also ...
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mac iTerm2 unbind command + / Find Cursor shortkey [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to remove a built-in shortcut from an application in Mac OS X?
I'm looking for some way to unbind command + / key by default binded to the View -> Find Cursor
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enabling colors in the python interactive shell on OS/X
I have just modified my .bash_profile so as to have colors in iTerm and Terminal.
Now, I want to enable syntax highlighting for the Python interactive shell, IDLE-style.
How to do that?
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How can I get control+left arrow to go back one word in iTerm2?
I was reading up in the Linux manual and I noticed that it said I could use control+left and control+right to move forward and back words in the terminal while editing.
"Pressing Ctrl plus the Left ...
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Smooth scrolling for vim in Mac Terminal/iTerm?
Is it possible to get smooth scrolling (using the mouse scroll wheel or macbook touchpad) within a terminal on Mac OSX (Lion)? Furthermore, could I do this within vim?
I find that smooth scrolling ...
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How do I stop automatic changing of iterm tab titles?
After switching to using .bashrc instead of .bash_profile (I didn't like how the default terminal worked with one config file and utilities like screen with another), the behavior of iterm2 changed. ...
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Vim doesn't refresh after running Node
I run :!node app.js from inside Vim and after hitting ctrl-c to end it, the bottom half of the window is blank. Even hitting ctrl-L to refresh doesn't work.
This has happened on both OSX 10.6 and 10....
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iTerm2, disable %/# sign after command
I've recently made the switch from OS X's Terminal app to iTerm2. There is a small issue which is annoying me. After every command a %-sign is printed out in the terminal.
I also have a Debian 6 VM, ...
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iTerm 2 on Mac OS X - How to get rid of all characters before the $ on each line?
I installed iTerm 2 but my shell windows show:
"computer name":"current directory" "user" $
This is far too long. I'd like to just see:
"current directory" $
Is there an option for this? I couldn'...
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Redirecting Terminal.app to iTerm.app
Is it possible to redirect an app in Mac OS X to another app?
If not, can you redirect Terminal.app to iTerm.app, so every app that wants to open a Terminal window, instead opens an iTerm window.
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Stop Git from Opening a new Terminal.app Window on Commit
Git is automatically opening a Terminal window when I save commit messages on my Mac. This might normally be useful (e.g. if the commit was initiated from a Terminal window), but I use iTerm as my ...
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How do I use the -ne flag for echo in a shell script?
I'm trying to create a shell script to take an argument and use it to name a terminal tab. So if the script's name is tabnm, tabnm "test" should rename the current tab "test"
This ...
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How do I set up an AppleScript to open a new iTerm2 tab and change the directory?
In OS X, how do I set up an AppleScript to
open a new iTerm2 tab
change to a directory
clear the console
echo the current directory
I had something like this before for regular Terminal, but I can'...
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Change iTerm2 window and tab titles in zsh
I want to label the window tabs of terminal sessions. I'm using the zshell in iterm2 on OSX. Is it possible to change the label of a window tab dynamically in the terminal?
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How can I make terminal VIM my default editor application in Mac OS X?
I am aware of MacVim, and while it's very nice I am constantly in the terminal. Why have two programs running when I could stay in one?
So the question is, how can I make VIM (run in iTerm2) the ...
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How to use key combinations with the option (⌥) key in iTerm2.app?
OS X / Apple keyboards offer these handy keyboard shortcuts for funky Unicode characters, like ⌥ + . gives an ellipsis character (…). How can I use these inside iTerm2.app? Whenever the ⌥ key is ...
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Select display profiles in iTerm for OS X
I've recently started using iTerm for OS X, and I can see how to edit and create display profiles, but not how to choose one for the current session or to be the new default (and I can't imagine why ...
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iTerm2 and tmux integration
I would like to achieve the following behaviour:
When I launch iTerm2, if there is a tmux session running, connect to it. If there is no tmux session running, create one and connect to it.
Any ...
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How to make the cursor shape dependent on the current Vim mode using iTerm2 on OS X and zsh
I am using zsh and iTerm2 to edit with Vim. I really love the integration and portability, and because of that I have chosen not to use MacVim. But....
I can't work out how to get my cursor to change ...
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iTerm (mac command-line) asks annoying questions before quit
Running OS X 10.6 snow leopard. I like to open iTerm for a quick editing of files. And then quit it so I do not have to see it in the dock.
This is what has happened: I upgraded iTerm to the most ...
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Enable mouse for scrolling only in Vim in iTerm (MacOSX)
I'd like to use the mouse in Vim only for scrolling (not to enable other Vim modes or otherwise interact with Vim). Using :set mouse=a seems to be an all or nothing operation, can this be altered? ...
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