(It's possible Terminal does some of the things I mention here-it's been so long since I've used it that I don't recall, but when I switched I paid close attention to the differences and there were lots of advantages to iTerm.

I've been using it for years now and have never missed Terminal. Development is pretty active, but documentation seems to lag behind. Some are mentioned here but some are not, such as co-processes, triggers,smart selection, semantic history, and so on. paste history (a good complement to the shells' command histories)ДЄnd a lot more.a full-screen view (and you can choose from either its own or OS X's built-in full-screen mode I greatly prefer iTerm's own full-screen mode, since it doesn't force you to move to a new 'Space', thus allowing Command-Tab to still work properly).Terminal-level auto-completion (I don't use this feature so I can't detail how it has advantages over shell-level autocompletion: especially if you use the fish shell or zsh, then it may not be better).Special provision for integrating with tmux (an alternative to GNU screen, and which most people regard as better & faster than screen).Split panes (the sort of thing you can do in GNU screen or tmux, but at the level of the terminal emulator rather than in a program running on the server).Add Unify repository and GPG keys: We need to add the Unifi repo apt sources list, so that we can install unifi controller with вЂapt-getвЂ™ on our Ubuntu 16. Support for 256 colors (you'll never go back to 16 colors after using 256) The UDM doesnвЂ™t have a configuration shell, you will only have direct Linux shell access.While the original iTerm had a tabbed interface before Terminal did, iTerm 2 again eclipses Terminal by adding: The best GUI application for SSH (and everything else you can do on the command line) is iTerm 2.

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