I use iTerm2 instead of the default MacOS terminal, and here’s how I have it set up:
- Twee terminal background with MOTD from this project because if I’m going to spend all day looking at a prompt, it should be pretty.
- Zsh and Oh My Zsh for really good tab-complete and git status on your prompt.
- Split panes. I find it really useful to a webserver process log on the left and be able to run tests and other commands in the right.
- Unlimited scroll buffer. Sometimes I run a really long command and want to paste the output into a file for safekeeping. Burning a little extra RAM is better than realising some vital bit of information has crept off the top of the screen.
- ⌥ + click anywhere in a command to move your cursor straight there.
- Bind keys to move between word boundaries, allowing you to skip back and forth within a command at a much higher speed with ⌥ + ←/→. Esc + b and Esc + f will move your cursor left and right, respectively. Update: My colleague informs me you can get these bindings easily by loading the “Natural Text Editing” preset under Profiles -> Keys -> Key Mappings. Neat!
- Silence terminal bell because I hate it, although I still want an analogue terminal bell.
- Enable tab icons for running apps.
(Updated Dec 22, 2023)