{"id":3270,"date":"2010-11-11T21:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T01:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2010-11-11T21:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T01:46:43","slug":"i-use-this-iterm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/11\/11\/i-use-this-iterm\/","title":{"rendered":"I Use This: iTerm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into some trouble with the Mac&#8217;s Terminal not supporting vim colors properly. It turns out that Terminal doesn&#8217;t have very good support for some things. Someone recommended I try <a href=\"http:\/\/iterm.sourceforge.net\/\">iTerm<\/a>, so I did. I wish I&#8217;d done it sooner. And it implements the feature I&#8217;ve craved for the longest time: <em>blurring<\/em> the background if you have a translucent terminal window:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2010\/11\/Screen-shot-2010-11-11-at-8.42.53-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3271\" title=\"iTerm Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2010\/11\/Screen-shot-2010-11-11-at-8.42.53-PM-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a little weirdness in that it doesn&#8217;t seem to update quite as fast as Terminal did, and that triple-clicking selects the line shown, not the whole line if it wraps. For the most part they&#8217;re petty differences. Overall, though, Terminal&#8217;s a thing of the past, and iTerm&#8217;s here to stay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: I&#8217;d noticed that iTerm hadn&#8217;t been updated in a long time. Thanks to George for commenting below that he&#8217;s picked up development and rechristened the project <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/iterm2home\/features\">iTerm 2<\/a>. Even better!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into some trouble with the Mac&#8217;s Terminal not supporting vim colors properly. It turns out that Terminal doesn&#8217;t have very good support for some things. Someone recommended I try iTerm, so I did. I wish I&#8217;d done it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/11\/11\/i-use-this-iterm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cool-links","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}