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Hmm! Here are some things I like in iTerm2 :

- Drop down terminal like Yakuake

- Visual bell, can show me when something has finished running

- Great incremental search, with regex supported

- Instant Replay, to allow time travel through anything erased from the terminal (like TUI screen repaints)

- Global search through all open terminals

- Triggers can highlight particular text when outputted on any terminal when a regex is matched

If using the Toolbelt feature :

- Keep track of your paste history

- Allows the use of text snippets to save typing long commands on remote hosts where you can't define an alias

- Show running background jobs and send them signals

If using shell integration:

- Directory name picker based on frecency, which is useful for adding directory names when composing long commands or to jump to a directory when using Zsh (which lets you omit the 'cd' command).

- Hotkeys to jump back to the points of the commands entered, to avoid scrolling back through pages of console output to find the beginning of a command




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