#Tinyterm ports full
#Tinyterm ports plus

This is why in vim if you cursor is over syntax highlighted element whose color is similar to the cursor color, it become incredibly hard to tell where the cursor is (esp. It has support for foreground/background color of the text the cursor is over, which Terminal.app does not have at all. ITerm exports its color profile as shell variable, so you can have vim adjust its color theme to match the terminal theme. You can resize vim split windows with a mouse. You can scroll text with mouse wheel, you can click on text and move the cursor there, so you can have say vim essentially behave like graphical vim (silly example I know, but still it's useful to some people). I flip between programs all day and don't use my dock except to empty trash (and yes I know command-option-shift-delete but that is living on the edge!)

#Tinyterm ports full

It doesn't matter whether chrome or Firefox are running, full screen, on the same virtual desktop, if I strike command-shift-c Chrome is instantly in front of me. Let's say I'm editing an HTML file over ssh and I want to test it. This means I can rearrange my apps and desktops however I like and I always instantly travel to the app I want next. If it is open it gives it focus, and if it is not running it opens the app. So I have a quicksilver trigger for EVERY application I use.Īny time I hit my special trigger key combination, it will 'launch' that app. Triggers are system-wide shortcuts that run a quicksilver command. It's free and absolutely changed the way I approach computing (at the speed of thought, not the speed I can aim and click icons on my screen) and one of the handiest features Quicksilver let's you configure is called 'triggers'. I might have a workaround for you! I use a launcher for OS X called 'Quicksilver'. This might just be placebo, but I'm pretty sure it also glitches out less often than Terminal.app.Īll in all, everything is just a little bit nicer than the stock terminal.

There's a drop-down mode, like Tilda or Visor. Hotkey mapping is a lot more powerful, and lets you send arbitrary hex/escape codes with hotkeys. Tab titles change color depending on the kind of activity that's going on within. Tabs can be put at the bottom of the screen, which solves that pesky issue where changing tabs on a fullscreened terminal.app causes the OSX topbar to slide down and intercept your click. I stuck with iTerm because of the many, many little features and conveniences that make working with the terminal easier.

#Tinyterm ports plus

Well, I started working at a place where I was regularly juggling 2-4 SSH sessions, 2 programs running and dumping logs in other tabs, plus a few more open terminals, and after a coworker introduced me to the wonderful zsh, I wondered what other great tools I was missing.