iTerm is a third party replacement for the built-in Terminal application.

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Option + click in iTerm

In Terminal, Option + click allows me to place my cursor at any point on the current line-- great for editing really long commands. How can I do this in iTerm2? Update: According to this page, the ...
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How do I get vim to work at 256 colors in iTerm?

I just got a new iMac, and installed iTerm (0.10). On my last laptop 256 color mode worked fine, but I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new Mac. I copied over all the settings, set $TERM ...
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iTerm2 terminals close immediately with “argpath=login error=No such file or directory”

Whenever I try to open a new terminal window in iTerm, it closes right away after displaying this: ## exec failed ## argpath=login error=No such file or directory Does anyone know what is causing ...
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Can I tell iTerm 2 to change color when I'm root

I would like to tell iTerm2 to have red text whenever I'm root when logged into a server. Note: I'm not able to change any configuration on the remote server.
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Set iTerm2 as the ssh:// URL handler

Currently, Terminal is set to handle SSH urls. For example, if I do: $ open ssh://machine.example.com Then it will spawn a new SSH session in terminal. I'd like these to be opened in iTerm2 ...
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How can I move through words when typing a command in iTerm2?

I'm in Lion with iTerm2, Zsh and Oh-My-Zsh but I cannot move through words when pressing: ALT+left arrow or CMD+left arrow or something instead, when I press "ALT+right arrow" it prints [C and when ...