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iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator for OS X and macOS

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with OS 10.5 (Leopard) or newer. Its focus is on performance, internationalization, and supporting innovative features that make your life better.

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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.shtml
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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 filepath #~/home/really/long/filepath node…
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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…
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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 maybe there isn't any?. I am aware that, iTerm2…
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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 one window on my mac the profile is displayed as…
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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 event, and not others its suspecting?
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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 terminal.app, too.
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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 MouseTerm. However, when I try scrolling less…
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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 used to it? Edit: just to avoid confusion, what…
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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 be great if in iTerm it showed the same one. Any…
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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 upward in history, the nano work area scrolling…
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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 they appear but who likes reversed colors…
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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 terminal window I open. Not a good experience. I…
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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/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask... To checkout master in…
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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 far: Shift + cmd + d = split pane (horizontally) cmd…
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