Install iTerm2?

[gabebw]

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/iterm2.rb

[croaky]

In my opinion, there's one killer feature for iTerm2, and that's turning off full-screen animations.

The last couple of times I've tried iTerm2, the colors have looked terrible with thoughtbot/dotfiles. Bad enough to be unusable. Haven't spent the time to fix that.

[gabebw]

Re: (1), do you mean that you'd use it if you could turn off full-screen animations (by which I assume you mean "the thing that happens when I hit Cmd-Enter")?

Re: (2), definitely fixable - I have a nice colorscheme for Vim that looks nice, but otherwise I think the colors are fine outside of Vim.

Screenshots (inside of tmux, not sure if it matters):

Terminal:

Vim with Jellybeans theme:

[joshuaclayton]

I use iTerm2's default white background with https://github.com/joshuaclayton/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/colors/github.vim and have no issues with only 256 colors. It's also very easy to add the iTerm2 solarized theme and the solarized color scheme in Vim and I've used it successfully myself.

[jferris]

I stopped using iTerm when Terminal became awesome around Leopard. What does iTerm actually bring to the table these days? Terminal is fast, works well out of the box, and is well-integrated.

[joshuaclayton]

The biggest thing for me is full screen mode. I'm not sure if there's a way to turn it of in Terminal, but with iTerm2, you can configure it so full screen only affects the primary monitor, allowing a connected laptop to continue to display Gmail, Propane, or whatever other apps you have open over there.

[gabebw]

After adjusting the colors on Terminal to be the same as the colors in iTerm2 ... I'm not sure why I use iTerm2. I don't use any advanced features, so I think my primary reason was "it's prettier" but that's not true anymore.

UPDATE: Turns out Vim looks terrible in Terminal (Solarized Dark terminal theme/jellybeans colorscheme, same as in iTerm2 above):

Note that the numbers column on the left only shows the current line (0), presumably because the background and the numbers are the same color.

UPDATE 2: Setting "Declare terminal as:" (Cmd-, -> Settings -> Advanced) to xterm-256color fixed the problems with the Vim colors.

I see no reason to use iTerm2 now.

[jyurek]

iTerm is quite a bit more keyboard-friendly and has a number of interesting features. But, as you said, if you've never looked at them or tried them out I suppose I can see them not mattering.

[croaky]

I say we continue to hold off on iTerm2. Not make it part of the script, let people who want to try it, try it.