Questions tagged [iterm]
iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator for OS X and macOS
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How to set keyboard shortcuts to jump to beginning/end of line? [closed]
I can see that Ctrl+left/right jumps to the beginning/end of line. How to change this to Cmd+left/right arrow?
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How can I scroll up more (increase the scroll buffer) in iTerm2?
How can I scroll up more on iterm2 to get full output? At times, for example if I am doing unit tests, the errors are so large than I need to keep scrolling up to which I cannot scroll up anymore but ...
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How to export iTerm2 Profiles
I needed to reformat my computer and now I'm having trouble copying the settings/profiles over.
I copied the files in ~/Library/Application\ Support/iTerm/
I also copied ~/Library/Preferences/com....
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iTerm2 keyboard shortcut - split pane navigation
I have been a long time user of the standard Mac Terminal. Decided to experiment with iTerm2 after hearing good things about it from my colleagues.
One of the more useful features I am seeing on ...
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lose vim colorscheme in tmux mode
I'm running iterm2 and when I'm in tmux mode the colorscheme I have set in vim does not show up. Only the color scheme I've set in iterm. If I run vim from shell the colorscheme appears correct - its ...
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How do I make iTerm terminal notify me when a job/process is complete?
A notification center notification would be ideal but growl, bounce dock, sound, etc would be fine, too (or if this can only be done in Terminal.app I'd be willing to switch back). Is there an option ...
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ZSH iterm2 increase number of lines history
Not sure if this is zsh, iterm2 or the interaction between them.
Trying to change the number of recallable lines in the terminal - not the command history, the output history.
In .zshrc I have :
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iTerm2: How to expand split pane temporarily?
Is there a way to temporarily expand a split pane into full tab and go back again when done?
I am looking for a keyboard shortcut to do so. The use case is to be able to temporarily switch to full-...
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Tmux vs. iTerm2 split panes
Why should I use tmux when iterm2 has split panes?
I have never used tmux, and want to know if there are advantages to using that in my workflow instead of the split pane features iterm2 has.
I ...
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Bash keyboard shortcuts in iTerm like Alt+d and Alt+f [closed]
Everyone at work recommended iTerm2 to me instead of the native Terminal. But iTerm2 doesn't seem to allow me to use bash shortcuts like Alt+B and Alt+F to jump back/forward between tokens, or Alt+D ...
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iTerm2: Stopping the inactive pane from dimming
I'm using irssi in one pane and nicklist.pl in the other, and whenever I'm in the irssi pane, the nicklist pane is dimmed:
How do I stop the inactive pane from dimming?
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How to delete a word in iTerm in mac os
I am using iTerm as a terminal in my mac. I am not able to delete a word in command line for ex in command cd /path/to/dir, i want to delete just path word , then how can i do that in iTerm.
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Incorrect colors with vim in iTerm2 using Solarized
I am having a strange issue with iTerm2, in terminal vim (non-gui) and the solarized color scheme. First, I have set iTerm2 to use the dark solarized colour scheme.
I am also using solarized for vim. ...
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How to turn off word wrap in iTerm2?
How to turn off word wrap in iTerm2? Is there a specific command to do so or in the preferences? I am trying to avoid having the text run down to the next line. I would rather scroll side to side.
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iTerm2 keyboard shortcut for moving tabs around
Say I want to place one tab next to another. Currently I do this by clicking and dragging. This increases productivity because if I'm switching between 2 regular tasks in iTerm I want to place the ...
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iterm2 default window size
I'm trying to find a place where to set the default window size on newly created windows.
In iterm1 there was display profiles, which I do not see iterm2. http://iterm.sourceforge.net/usage....
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iTerm2 Transparent transparent background for inactive windows
The native MacOS Terminal has an ability to set transparency for both in-active and active panes. iTerm2 has the transparency for active backgrounds, for some reason, I can't find the inactive one or ...
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Create New Tab Sessions with the same working Directory
Often in workflow you are working within a directory and then need to create a second terminal or session to the same directory.
TAB 1
#~/home
cd really
#~/home/really
cd long
#~/home/really/long
cd ...
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when launching terminal macos get error Class ATCRTRestoreInfoFTABSubfile is implemented in both
When first launch the termainal always get this error.
objc[9318]: Class AppleTypeCRetimerRestoreInfoHelper is implemented in both /usr/lib/libauthinstall.dylib (0x207c11eb0) and /Library/Apple/System/...
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iTerm2 – scroll less output with mouse
I just switched from OSX Terminal to iTerm2, and I seem to have lost one piece of functionality.
In Terminal, I could scroll through output of the less command with my mouse, because I had installed ...
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iTerm 2 profiles
I have recently switched over to iTerm2 and love it. I am wondering though if there is a way to use profiles to correspond to what environment/specific machine you are on.
Say if I am doing tasks in ...
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How to select text in iterm with Shift+Arrow?
On most mac applications Shift+Arrow selects text but in iterm it just moves the cursor without selecting. How do you get it to select the text?
Would also be curious if there's a way to do this in ...
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How can I get mouse selection to work in emacs and iTerm2 on Mac?
after turning on xterm-mouse-mode, any click on the in the screen returns "mouse-1 is undefined". What should I be defining "mouse-1" as? Is there some reason my mouse clicks are returning this ...
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iTerm2 - hide split pane title bars?
After recent update of iTerm2 the split panes look different:
This is how it looked before (some random image found on the Internet):
Is there a way to get the original look back or do I have to get ...
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Why do you need to source .zshrc for every new shell in iTerm?
I've used Iterm2 with zsh everyday for the past 3 years, but I got a new computer and had to set it up again. The problem is that when I run ~/.zshrc it works fine, but I have to do it on every new ...
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iterm vim colorscheme not working
When I run vim from the command line in iTerm, syntax highlighting doesn't seem to work locally.
In vim for example I have installed a nice colorscheme that works quite well in MacVim but it would ...
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how to use the trackpad to scroll in nano using iterm2, the way it works in terminal.app?
I am used to editing in nano, and with terminal.app it's easy to quickly move up and down the file using the scroll gesture. I am trying out iTerm2, but now the scroll gesture just makes iTerm scroll ...
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Why don't git colors show up in iTerm2
So I have my gitconfig setup to do colors. In Terminal it works great, looks fine.
In iTerm2, however, the colors don't appear for my gitconfig at all unless I set the reverse property for git. Then ...
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Homebrew fatal: needed a single revision (MacOs Sierra)
Not sure if this problem is related to upgrading to MacOs Sierra, but since that moment this error occurs when I run 'brew update'
→ brew update
Checking out v1.0.0 in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/...
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Close a split screen/window in iterm
Does anyone know what the shortcut (if it exists) to close an active pane in iterm.
I am using the beta version 2.9 and have tried configuring it in preferences to no avail.
This is what I have so ...
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tmux not re-attaching
I recently switched from using screen to tmux (obtained through macports), as I like the feature set more. However, I can't seem to get tmux to reattach from an alternate location, like I can screen.
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iTerm2 swap panes keyboard shortcut
The option for swapping between panes is only available through the menu button but I can't see any action to bind to this action. Is there and in built command that allows to swap panes?
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Can't see what I'm typing in iterm2
Periodically, I'll run rspec (though I don't know if its specific to that) and suddenly, I can't see what i'm typing. I have to close that iterm2 window out and open a new one. Then that will work ...
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How can I quickly scroll down the output of git commands?
I have to show my commits using git show c36432. The files are very big and it sometimes takes a long time to go line by line.
What can I do to move fast, like page by page? I am using iterm as ...
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How to get Cmd-left/right working with iTerm2 and Vim (without requiring .vimrc changes)?
I want to be able to use Option-left and Option-right to skip words (and Cmd-left/right to go to beginning and end of lines) within Vim as it does at my shell prompt. My Iterm2 preferences have ...
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screen: how to turn on alternate screen?
When I work in terminal, I see the history of the last shell commands execution output. If I run vim, I see the file I open full screen. When I exit vim, I can see the history of the last shell ...
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How do I get my iTerm prompt to display differently when I'm in a Git branch?
I'm trying to get my iTerm prompt set up the same way as Paul Irish
So far I have the following in ~/.profile:
# Add git branch name to prompt
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed ...
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Is it possible to see a log or history of previous iTerm2 sessions?
Is there a log of recent terminal sessions at all? Or anyway I can see what was written to console before I last quit?
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"M-" bindings in vim on iTerm2/Terminal don't work
I noticed that iTerm2 offers the very convenient feature of using "Option key as +ESC" (or as meta, but apparently that's obsolete).
I tried them both and the option key works as expected in Bash (...
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Leaving tmux scrollback in terminal (iTerm2)
Usually tmux will only show as much output as however many rows my terminal currently displays. And then when I detach it, it clears all of its content. I know how to look at scrollback (ctrl+A, [, k, ...
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Is there a way to "refresh" the terminal/iTerm without closing the current sessions?
I just updated my xcode command line tool in my iTerm2 and it seems like I need to restart my iTerm to put that to work, since when I try to use
tns build ios
command to build my nativescript ...
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In iterm how do I show the start time of a command
I would like to see when I typed a certain command. How do I display this in my terminal prompt?
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How do I insert a tab character in Iterm?
Simply put, I know you can do ctrl+v+tab to insert a physically real tab character in a bash statement. But how do I do the same for iTerm?
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How do i clear tmux screen while tailing logs?
I'm using tmux with iTerm2.
Clear screen using Ctrl-L works when i'm in bash, but does not work when i'm tailing server logs. How do i fix this?
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Copy and paste in vim via keyboard between different mac terminals?
Can anyone help me with this:
I'm trying to figure out how to copy and paste text between 2 different instances of vim on different terminals (using iterm2 or mac terminal). I can do it using the ...
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How do I invert the color scheme on iterm2?
I'm using iterm2 (v3.0.14) on Mac Sierra. How do I invert the color scheme on my terminal? That is, right now, the default is a black background with white lettering, and I would prefer a white ...
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Multiple tabs with tmux / tmuxinator and iTerm2
I would like to open all my useful stuff like here in iTerm2:
Not like this:
I'm using tmuxinator I've defined some tabs. I wonder if it's possible to get the former behaviour at all.
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Unexpected colors with solarized dark theme on emacs (blue background)
I have set my iterm2 to use the solarized color theme:
I would also like to have emacs use this theme. Here's what it looks like:
I have my terminal set to xterm-256color. I don't know what I've ...
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How do I import a .terminal profile in Iterm2?
If I have a .terminal profile - created with the default Terminal app for Mac - how do I import it in Iterm2 ?
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iterm, unable to fork, too many processes? [closed]
I wasn't able to open new iterm window due to the message, the photo above. Even though t definitely looks running too many processes,I think mac wasn't running too many processes. I've checked ...
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