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by acanby 4789 days ago
As someone who uses Terminal.app, what are the benefits of using iTerm2? After looking at the features of iTerm2[1], I see a lot of it as superfluous.

That said I can see a usecase in the Growl notification feature for testing etc.

[1] http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features

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It is far faster at scrolling with non-ASCII characters, helpful when scanning logs of such characters.

It has a better find interface.

It is almost exactly like Terminal.app in most respects, which I appreciate.

Thanks for pointing these out m8. Cheers.
I love it for visor mode. Basically in the preferences you can set it up to toggle the terminal (slides down from top of screen..) with a global hotkey. It manages themes nice as well.