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by sdegutis 3474 days ago
I tried iTerm and then Hyper, and didn't really see how either benefited me over Terminal.app so I stuck with that. But these days I do most of my development work inside Emacs, and the vast majority of my Terminal.app usage has been replaced by either a first-class Emacs plugin (like Magit[0] for git) or Eshell[1] within Emacs.

[0]: https://magit.vc/

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eshell.html

2 comments

The main thing for me is split panes, but I don't primarily use an editor like Emacs that can do split panes, and I never bothered to learn tmux (iTerm does have neat tmux integration though)
Ah right, split panes are pretty nifty. Very easy to do in Emacs and convenient too. When I'm using Terminal.app, I just use two windows and place them side-by-side if needed. But most of the time a single windows suffice for the small things I'm doing.
I am from the cult of vim, using neovim and tmux all day.

What I like about iTerm are the many small options that allow me to tweak it a bit here and there.