[anywho]

been using this for a few months now. Fantastic, and George is a great guy and maintainer for this app. Very quick to respond and updates frequently.

Biggest wins?

* 256 color

* xterm mouse reporting

* more configurable - why do I need scrollbars when I always use screen/tmux?

* split panes - as good as screen :)

[guylhem]

I remember spending some time with iTerm in the past, and being frustrated when it crashed, but since I found out about controllermate I reverted to terminal.app

My reasons :

* 99% of what I need is there by default (ex: the 4 features here are not important to me)

* stable

* shipped by default, no need to spend time downloading yet another application, following the upgrades etc

* when I need some very special shortcut that terminal.app won't allow me to remap, ex ctrl-numbers, that's a job I can do within controllermate.

Ex: while reading about iterm2 features, I thought this visor key stuff seemed potentially usefull. I did that with CM, mapping the insert key to bring terminal.app to the front, or option-tab to the previous application if it is already focused.

CM is not mandatory : option-arrows can be remapped directly in terminal.app (and there's alwarys esc-b esc-f I know, but when you alt-tab between osx apps to your terminal, sometimes muscle memory sets in)

But some other sequences just can't be done in terminal.app, while they could be useful. Ex: alt delete is esc-d, option-delete is ctrl-k, alt-backspace is ctrl-w, option-backspace is ctrl-u : then bash works just like the OSX default shortcuts

Another one : want to move between tabs? I have been using applescripts in CM (mapped to Ctrl-number, my caps key is the ctrl key) :

tell front window of application "Terminal" to set selected tab to tab 1

To me CM is the best thing since sliced bread.

[recurser]

The only thing that stops me from using regular terminal is that I couldn't figure out how to make it automatically copy-on-select. Is this possible, or do you just use command-c?

[wahnfrieden]

It already works, automatically. It just uses a separate pasteboard than the native OSX one. Try selecting in Terminal.app, and then middle-clicking.

If you want it in the OSX pasteboard, you need to use cmd-c.

[igravious]

It may seem like a small detail but for me it has to be the Cmd+1, Cmd+2, and so on to switch tabs as in Chrome - I'd like this keybinding to become standardized across tabbed apps. It seems like such a little little little detail but I really really really think it's super intuitive.

I've never understood the able of screen, yet I've seen its benefits championed over and over, could somebody please God for once enlighten me. Thx!

[askedrelic]

I have come to love this keybinding as well and try to fit in most applications. I can mentally map 1-9 to different spaces/needs and use them like that.

[tvon]

I'm pretty thrilled with the feedback on the request for a Visor-like feature (eg, quake terminal). If they get that implemented I'll certainly switch from Terminal.app.