I made the switch and started using iTerm today. I felt limited somehow with Terminal, and iTerm delivers more features with the added bonus of having a comforting cocoa-app look and feel.
The main productivity boost in iTerm comes from using the Bookmarks window. Essentially, I can create a bookmark for each server I ssh into on a regular basis. Then with a simple double-click, a new tab is created (another shortfall with Terminal) and the ssh command is issued with a prompt for my password. It’s pretty nice.
Bookmarks could also be used for issuing other common commands, such as starting a WEBrick server for rails development.
Shaun Haber
“Bookmarks could also be used for issuing other common commands, such as starting a WEBrick server for rails development.”
Could you elaborate on this? Any time I make a bookmark that isn’t an ssh or login command, the window pops up saying “exec failed” and “no such file or directory”
yeah. I’ve been using iTerm for years, and even hacked on it once (tried making split windows, but never got it bugfree enough to release) and I’ve never figured out how to make a bookmark that does something besides login or ssh.