ITerm2

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iTerm2
Developer(s) George Nachman
Stable release
3.5.11 / January 2, 2025;58 days ago (2025-01-02) [1]
Repository
Operating system macOS
Type Terminal emulator
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website www.iterm2.com

iTerm2 is a free and open-source terminal emulator for macOS, licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later. It was derived from and has mostly supplanted the earlier "iTerm" application.

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iTerm2 supports operating system features such as window transparency, full-screen mode, split panes, Exposé Tabs, Growl notifications, and standard keyboard shortcuts. Other features include customizable profiles, Instant Replay of past terminal input/output, [2] [3] a Toolbelt showing running jobs and a command history, [4] the ability to open when a key combination is pressed, [5] and autocomplete. [6]

History

A Mozilla-sponsored 2019 code audit found one serious security vulnerability in iTerm2's tmux integration, which developer George Nachman fixed in an update. [7]

Reception

Software engineer Mike Rourke called it an "excellent [...] more full-featured Terminal" than Apple's built-in Terminal app. [4] iTerm2 is recommended in several programming books, [4] [8] [9] [10] with engineer Jo Rhett and Mozilla's Tom Ritter describing it as one of the most popular terminal emulators. [11] [12] Developer Mark McDonnel noted its additional features but criticized it for being less ubiquitous than tmux by lacking a Linux version. [13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Downloads - iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement". iterm2.com. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  2. ↑ "Features". iTerm2.com. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  3. ↑ Bohon, Cory (2012-11-12). "Terminal 101: 2 Alternative Terminal Emulators Worth Looking At". MacLife . Archived from the original on 2015-08-30. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  4. 1 2 3 Rourke, Mike (2018-09-25). Learn WebAssembly: Build web applications with native performance using Wasm and C/C++. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. 77. ISBN   978-1-78899-546-7.
  5. ↑ Kettner, Benjamin; Geisler, Frank (2019-07-13). Docker für Dummies (in German). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-3-527-82218-8.
  6. ↑ Esmaili, Rebekah B. (2021-08-24). Earth Observation Using Python: A Practical Programming Guide. John Wiley & Sons. p. 270. ISBN   978-1-119-60688-8.
  7. ↑ Claburn, Thomas (October 10, 2019). "iTerm2 issues emergency update after MOSS finds a fatal flaw in its terminal code". The Register. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  8. ↑ Poe, Curtis (2012-09-19). Beginning Perl. John Wiley & Sons. p. 15. ISBN   978-1-118-01384-7.
  9. ↑ Satheesh, Mithun; D'mello, Bruno Joseph; Krol, Jason (2015-10-30). Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. 14. ISBN   978-1-78528-745-9.
  10. ↑ McLevey, John (2021-12-15). Doing Computational Social Science: A Practical Introduction. SAGE Publications. p. 15. ISBN   978-1-5297-3670-0.
  11. ↑ Rhett, Jo (2016-03-24). Learning Puppet 4: A Guide to Configuration Management and Automation. O'Reilly Media. p. 18. ISBN   978-1-4919-0801-3.
  12. ↑ Ritter, Tom (2019-10-09). "Critical Security Issue identified in iTerm2 as part of Mozilla Open Source Audit". Mozilla Security Blog. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  13. ↑ McDonnell, Mark (2014-12-02). tmux Taster. Apress. p. 2. ISBN   978-1-4842-0775-8.
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