Make Your Life Easier with iTerm2 (A Terminal Replacement)

Keep your Terminal too!

Prerequisites:

• I have already written a guide on The Mac Terminal. This guide isn’t about that! Rather, this guide is about iTerm2 — and read on for why you should care about this terminal replacement.

Keywords and Terminology:

Terminal: an interface that allows you to access the command line

Why choose iTerm2 over the Terminal

The Mac has a great Terminal, and if you are using Git or other development tools you are almost certain to be typing commands in the Terminal. What is important is the speed of your work, and being able to do things in an efficient way is aways important, and a great thing to do to get your setup just right. With that said, we should press on with those great features:

• Split panes so you can see your Terminal work side-by-side
• Hotkeys that work globally