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by masklinn 3255 days ago
That's ecosystem inertia: in the days of yore Terminal was pretty damn terrible, it only got tabs in 10.10 (Sierra) and xterm-256 in Mountain Lion (10.8), so people got into the habit of recommending iTerm 2 and then kept doing that even as Terminal became usable (though not necessarily great).

And iTerm still has feature edges e.g. truecolor, or better multiplexer support (Terminal only supports vertical pane splitting).
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cweagans 3255 days ago
> it only got tabs in 10.10 (Sierra)

I'm 90% sure that's not accurate. It's had tabs for quite a while.

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0942v8653 3255 days ago
Yes I distinctly remember using Terminal's tabs on snow leopard (10.6), confirmed by [0]. Also, I believe 256color was available in that release, though I'm less sure.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6736602/how-do-i-set-mac...

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wodenokoto 3255 days ago
Tabs is way older than Sierra. I started using the terminal about 5 years ago and have always used tabs.
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Analemma_ 3255 days ago
> it only got tabs in 10.10 (Sierra)

I don't think that's true. I definitely had tabs in Lion (10.7) and I'm pretty sure they're at least as old as Leopard (10.5) and maybe older.

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Tenobrus 3255 days ago
iTerm2 also has Tmux integration: treat and control Tmux windows (and thus tabs) and panes as if they were native iTerm elements, and do so using the same keyboard shortcuts. Very very few other emulators do this (on any OS).
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Volt 3255 days ago
It got tabs in Leopard (10.5).
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