PLEASE NOTE: Regarding the title: iSorry. ;-)
So anyway, Sylvain arrived here in the U.S. of A. on the 13th,
… and the two of us have been heads down ever since preparing to release this at that. The day before his arrival I paid a visit to my local Apple Store to pick up his development machine. As such, he too is now discovering just how wonderful development life on a Mac can be.
Of course as wonderful as life can be there is one thing that has really irked me: The lack of a good tabbed shell/terminal client. What surprised me is that no matter how hard I looked it didn’t seem like anybody either noticed and/or cared enough to do anything about it. But as Sylvain just discovered, apparently I was wrong,
iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support. iTerm was merged from two projects, CTerminal and TerminalX, both of which were based on JTerminal project. The current version is still in beta stage. It is however very much functional and usable.
SWEET! I feel like I just rediscovered Firefox!
Thanks, iTerm developers! :D
I tend to find iTerm unbearably slow.
However, Terminator fulfils all my needs, with the added bonus of complete Unicode support that Just Works.
Nice to put a picture of me after 14 hours of plane :D
Toby: Slow? Didn't notice that. Unbearably slow ? Wow, I must really have missed something.
@Toby,
Thanks for the info and the link! Downloading now to try it out.
@Sylvain,
> Nice to put a picture of me after 14 hours of plane :D
Youuuuu'rrrreee welcome. :D
@Sylvain - I hadn't used iTerm in probably a year. To be fair, I just downloaded & tried out the latest version, and it seems much more responsive now than I remember it being, certainly good enough for real work.
I'll be sticking with Terminator though, for the UTF-8 support.
> I'll be sticking with Terminator though, for the UTF-8 support.
And for the name. ;-) Though, UTF-8 support is a great thing to have. Maybe someday (like when 10.5 is released), I'll have a shiny Mac of my own to try thi... hold on now, it's cross-platform in Java? Well now, that IS interesting. It claims that it replaces PuTTY; does it have a built-in ssh client as well? That would be AWESOME.
Oh, and welcome to the US, Sylvain. Wish you weren't still just as far away, but we can't have everything, can we? I hope you and MDP end up being greatly productive!
@Toby,
>> I'll be sticking with Terminator though, for the UTF-8 support.
@John,
>> And for the name. ;-)
Yeah, no doubt! The name *ROCKS*! :D
>> Though, UTF-8 support is a great thing to have. Maybe someday (like when 10.5 is released), I'll have a shiny Mac of my own to try thi... hold on now, it's cross-platform in Java? Well now, that IS interesting. It claims that it replaces PuTTY; does it have a built-in ssh client as well? That would be AWESOME. > Oh, and welcome to the US, Sylvain. Wish you weren't still just as far away, but we can't have everything, can we? > I hope you and MDP end up being greatly productive!
Me too! :D
Thanks, John!