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 do this?
The New Terminal Tab at Folder service is provided by Terminal, so it can't be used with iTerm. You could make your own service for iTerm though:
on run {input, parameters}
set p to POSIX path of item 1 of input
tell application "iTerm"
reopen
tell current terminal
tell (launch session "Default Session")
write text "cd " & quoted form of p
end tell
end tell
activate
end tell
end run
As far as I know, there is no such a thing as a default terminal on OS X. You can change the default application for .command
files from Finder, and you can use duti to change the default application for x-man-page
or ssh
URLs.
iTerm version 3 (or maybe earlier) has an option to set a specific Profile to handle certain protocols, SSH and Telnet being the most appropriate for me.