Questions tagged [iterm]
iTerm is a third party replacement for the built-in Terminal application.
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Vim in Iterm2 closes after compiling Latex file
When I run
!pdflatex %
in Macvim, the latex file compiles and I am not exited from Macvim. In iterm2, the compilation occurs and them I am taken out of Vim back into the terminal prompt. Any ideas ...
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AMSupportURL* “is implemented in both”?
I read this thread and do not really understand the reply. I am getting the same error the first time I run iTerm2 after a reboot on a mac M1.
The author of that reply said
It means two symbols are ...
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How to make iTerm2 colorful?
I have been trying to get my iterm2 terminal colorful, but I am having very little success. I tried adding the following to my .bash_profile
# Set CLICOLOR if you want Ansi Colors in iTerm2
export ...
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Toggling iterm2 with F12 hotkey on touchbar doesn't work
Normally I use external keyboard with my macbook pro 2018 and never had any problems with toggling iterm2, I use cmd+F12 as a hotkey. But now I'm using laptop keyboard with the touchbar that shows F1-...
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Midnight commander freezes when lynx navigation is used in a quick fashion
As a wrote in the title I use MC on Mac because I just like it and it is a very effective tool, especially with lynx-like navigation. But it gets frozen randomly when I use it basically running ...
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Cannot get iTerm profile to switch back to shell using zsh
I have a couple of profiles set up in iTerm on my Mac, for accessing different local and remote machines. The main purpose of the profiles is to change the colours so that it is immediately obvious ...
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iTerm2 highlighting pasted text
I recently switched to a new machine, and I'm noticing a behavior in iTerm2 I haven't seen before. Whenever I paste text into iTerm2, the text is highlighted:
Here, I pasted "err". Why is ...
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Wrong Application Name when Asking for Privacy Permissions?
This seems like an odd one. I installed iTerm2 shortly after doing a fresh install of Big Sur on my laptop. A bit after that, I installed VMware Fusion and went on with my life. Tonight, I wanted to ...
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what is the hex code for backward-kill-line
I'd like to map ^u to backward-kill-line on iTerm2.
What is the Hex Codes for this?
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What is the difference in the way PageUp/Pagedown keys are handled by Terminal.app vs iTerm2.app?
I had an SOF question about the ipython REPL handling of scrolling https://stackoverflow.com/q/65385315/1056563
Cycle through ipython “history” with one keystroke per item even when multiple lines
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When I switch desktops with multiple displays, why is the focus on the main display is changing to the same application on the current display?
I am experiencing a weird issue. I have one external monitor and Macbook. I have multiple desktops on both displays. If I open an application, especially iTerm, Chrome, VSCode on the external monitor, ...
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How to go to new line in iTerm2 without executing command?
Don't flag this as duplicate to answers that say append \ because I am not asking for line continuation.
I want something equivalent to Command . from default terminal in ITerm2. I want to treat line ...
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Way to keep track of successful commands on command line?
Usually I just copy/paste successful actions I do on the command line into a text file. That's a bit of an error prone and cumbersome process and I sometimes forget to do it.
Do you know of a way to ...
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Click on link to open a terminal in a specific directory using iTerm
I want to use OmniOutliner to attach a directory to my outline. I think that the best way to do that is to have a link which, when clicked, opens iTerm in a specified directory. Can this be done?
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I'm saving debug logs for iTerm2 but why can't I find them?
I can't find the file /tmp/debuglog.txt anywhere using finder.
locate debuglog.txt failed because there is no database, so I've built one using sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com....
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What is the difference between these two cursors, with tmux?
When running iTerm2 / Tmux, I have this cursor:
but when I hold the alt/option key, I have this cursor:
what is the difference?
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How to identify plist values for iterm preferences
iTerm2 preferences are stored at ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist. (see also this post for details).
I can print its contents using
defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
Is there ...
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ITerm2 Closes Immediately After Opening
My iTerm2 closes right away when I click on the icon in an attempt to open it. I have seen that this is a known issue with iTerm2, but the solutions I found involve editing preferences through the ...
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iTerm2 Send Escape Sequence for Option-Enter
I would like to use Option-Enter in tmux in order to split windows. Both my Option keys are set to "normal" mode, otherwise, I will not be able to type special characters (Norwegian keyboard ...
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Why do my arrow keys not work in irb on iterm2
The arrow keys work fine in iTerm2 in general, but break in irb. Instead of working as arrow keys, they get escaped as ^[[D, ^[[C, etc.
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How to open iterm from Finder? [duplicate]
Imagine I'm in /Users/beauthi/Documents in Finder. I want to launch commands in my default terminal, which is iterm, in that location. Is there a specific trick in the Finder app to launch iterm and ...
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Making changes to the iTerm UI permanent
I am new to the MacOS, and I have started using iTerm2, and I want to make the changes to my UI permanent, but I am unable to do so.
When I "right-click" in the iTerm window and go to Edit ...
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How do I open a profile in iTerm2 in the current window?
I don't want to open the profile in a new tab, a new window, nor do I want to split horizontally or vertically-- I just want the command tied to my profile to run.
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Which is correct, iTerm or Terminal? (Option as Meta or Esc+)
Each provides the ability to change the behavior of Option: as Normal, Meta, or in iTerm only, Esc+. However, an interesting phenomenon is, in order to have Emacs-style shortcuts at the command line, ...
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iTerm2 force same window size on each hotkey window display
Is there a way to force the size of a hotkey window size on each trigger rather than on each window creation?
Having a default window creation size only lasts up until when the screen's resolution ...
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How can I avoid iTerm trying to scp a file when ⌘-clicking it?
I am working with a developer setup so that I run my code in a docker container and be able to edit it locally (via volume). Local path is e.g. /path/to/my/project while inside docker container it is /...
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iTerm2, zsh and .zshhistory - how to have separate zsh history
I installed iTerm2 on Catalina 10.15.6 on a MacBook Pro bought in early 2020 and have two profiles - Default and MyUser.
For MyUser, I set a custom location of /Users/john-doe/iTerm2/zsh (copy of zsh ...
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Proliferation of unknown bash processes when invoking ps
I'm having some very strange behavior in my shell that I don't even begin to understand. I apologize for being somewhat lost, but I can't seem to turn up many obvious answers in a web search.
I'm ...
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Question Marks in iTerm (Font Issue?)
I recently set up my iTerm and have been really enjoying how smooth and functional it is out of the box. I installed the Prezto zsh pre-config and set up Powerlevel10k as my Prezto theme. I also use ...
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Can't read/write via `dd`: got /dev/disk2: Permission denied (to Physical device)
I can't do anything via dd with my Physical devices agreed.
I can only work with partitions like disk2s1, but can not read from whole disk like disk2.
Can't find where is the root of problem.
Steps:
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MacOS Catalina - iTerm2 - Strange message when rebooting the MacBook pro
When I reboot my Macbook pro and after logging, I have a strange message on a iTerm2 terminal window that appears and that doesn't give the hand :
/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/image_decoder; ...
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macOS Big Sur Terminal hangs and no prompt appear
I have a strange issue on my MacBook Pro (Mid-2017 15" with touch bar; MacBookPro14,3; 11.0 Beta (20A4299v)).
I've just installed macOS Big Sur on an external drive and everything was alright for ...
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iTerm2 Cmd+click tries to download URL as it is a remote file
I'm using iTerm2 Build 3.3.12 on macOS Catalina (with Bash). Since I installed the Shell integration I can't Cmd+click anymore on URLs in order to browse them. Instead, iTerm2 tries to download it ...
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Launchctl setenv in Terminal.app vs iTerm
If I use
launchctl setenv FOO BAR
in Terminal.app, after closing and reopening the app, the variable FOO is correctly set.
If I do the same thing in iTerm, nothing happens.
Why?
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Autocomplete across all iTerm2 sessions and tabs
Can my tabs and sessions share the same autocomplete history? Also can this history persist between opening and closing iTerm?
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No single shortcut to go to end of file
I'm new to Mac (10.15.5) and so far figuring out shortcuts has not been a smooth journey. Usually on Windows I would use these -
Home - Beginning of a line
End - End of line
Ctrl + Home - Beginning ...
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Is it possible to add iTerm2 shortcut for custom input?
It is common in text editors to have special line break that doesn't create new paragraph. Usually with ⌥ Option⏎ Return shortcut. I want to achieve something similar but in terminal:
on ⌥ Option⏎ ...
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How to restore select files from Time Machine and fix permissions issues
I like doing things from the command line (eg copying only 24 select files by wildcard from my time machine backups) and Time Machine's extra permissions and protections catch me out every time.
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iterm2 how to change or toggle split orientation?
Is it possible to change from vertical splits to horizontal splits and vice versa?
Something like vscode's toggle editor layout.
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iTerm2 - zsh - keep history of commands when opening a new pane
with zsh on MacOS Catalina, when I split my current window of iTerm2 by opening a new pane, I would like to be able to keep in this new pane the history of commands of previous pane (which is still ...
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How can I get .zshrc to run in its entirety every time I open zsh
Here is the entirety of my .zshrc.
alias ll='ls -l'
export HOME='/Users/rcorty/Dropbox'
This file is at /Users/myname/.zshrc.
When I start iTerm2, I check whether the home directory was reset by ...
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iTerm unresponsive as xcode attempts (and fails) compiling every startup
Very recently, iTerm has become unresponsive for me when I open new instances of it. Whenever I open a new window or tab of iTerm, Xcode seems to be attempting to recompile a slightly older version of ...
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Can't launch Finder window from terminal on Mojave
open isn't behaving as expected on Mojave. Running
open /Library/
gives
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -600 for the file /Library.
This happens regardless of the opening location. I'm ...
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iTerm2 Supply PWD to coprocess in capture output trigger
How do you supply PWD to a coprocess script?
For instance, given the below trigger:
When I double click the captured output, it runs the script: ~/rerun_test.sh supplying the filename that was ...
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Select last part of a string in iTerm2 using standard shortcut
Using iTerm2, I am currently typing this command (notice the cursor at the end of addons):
If my terminal would be like any other text input I use on my Mac, I could use the shortcut Alt + Shift + ...
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Arrow keys in insert mode in vim
When I'm in insert mode in vim and I use the arrow keys, it sends what seems like a letter and a carriage return. For example, pressing ↑ it sends:
A
It looks like A\n but I'm not sure exactly what ...
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How to send an arrow key in iTerm2
Is it possible to send an arrow key in iTerm2? I've been able to send almost any other character, by using either an escape character, such as \<C-a> or entering in the character directly, such ...
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How do I do Home and End in iterm2?
Home and End do nothing in iTerm2, nor do ⌘← and ⌘→.
However, Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E do work.
Can Home and End do this?
Preferences->Keys_Key Bindings in iTerm2 do not offer a "Start of Line" or "End ...
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Launch terminal program from macOS app
I use Fork and I'm trying to set up a custom command that will open a file in Vim. I'm not using MacVim, so the command needs to open a terminal, preferably iTerm2.
Executing /usr/local/bin/vim doesn'...
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ZSH issue with colorized prompt and double slash, i.e “//” appearing when I am into root
I am faced to a problem of appearing slash / appearing double slash into PS1 when I am located on root / .
I explain more precisely, I have in .zshrc :
setopt PROMPT_SUBST
slash_color () { dirs | ...
