On: Clear Your Terminal in Style

[yodsanklai]

> A lot of people swear by stuff like iTerm2

Actually, I've been using Terminal for years. I usually try to use default apps as much as possible (Safari, Mail, Notes, Terminal) to reduce configuration overhead. I switched to iTerm2 a few days ago after reading an article on HN... not sure if it worth the change, but haven't tried anything fancy yet. What would be the killer feature of iTerm2?

[senordevnyc → yodsanklai]

Drop down with global shortcut (I use control + ‘)

https://www.marcjenkins.co.uk/drop-down-terminal-with-iterm2...

[kmundnic → yodsanklai]

For me it is its integration with tmux, and therefore being able to use the command line in a remote computer as if you were using it locally.

[gumby → kmundnic]

I just use tramp for this.

[hanley → yodsanklai]

I use profile triggers to change the color scheme of the shell when I SSH to a production server. The color I chose is different from my regular scheme so that it reminds me I am in production and things can break if I'm not careful.