[nntwozz]

I'm sure everyone has a favorite, mine is simply able to slide out iTerm2 from the top of the screen with a hotkey (tilde ofc.) à la Quake console.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/48796/iterm-as-a-s...

[Cthulhu_]

Same, lol; that really is the only unique selling point for me at the moment. Although I'm sure there's a lot of subtle things (performance, font rendering, tabs, etc) that do it for me as well.

[microtonal]

performance

The latency of iTerm has traditionally been much worse than Terminal.app. It got a bit better with GPU rendering, but it still trails behind Terminal.app quite a bit.

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/

I tried iTerm for a while because Terminal.app does not support true color. But the difference in latency is definitely noticeable to me.

[jdalt]

I use Alacritty as my terminal emulator plus hammerspoon to get the same effect.

[tjfl]

Would you be willing to share your Hammerspoon config, or at least that part? Would love to do this with Alacritty!

[tjfl]

I found it, and then some:

- https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/862#issuecomme... - https://gist.github.com/programus/d3bf9c6b8f9b7648891d1f59b6... - https://world.hey.com/jonash/alacritty-drop-down-guake-quake...

Really cool!