iTerm2 Tips & Tricks
A collection of useful tips
iTerm2
I spend many of my working hours inside the terminal, and iTerm2 has been my terminal of choice for many years now.
In addition to the posts below, I also keep a page with some useful tips and tricks:
3 posts
Customizing iTerm2's New Tab
Learn how to customize the New Tab feature to open new tabs to your current directory, even on remote systems.
Useful notifications in iTerm2
For some reason, I’ve found that in my career a lot of the work I do ends up involving slow REPL loops: I make a change, run a command, wait for it to finish, and repeat. While I’m sitting there waiting, it’s easy to be distracted by things, and I want my task to bring itself back to my attention when it’s ready. This desire has led me on a multi-year quest to tailor my notifications perfectly, and in this post I’m going to share what I’ve come up with.
Writing iTerm2 Python scripts
iTerm2 is a very powerful piece of software and includes a plugin system that allows you to write Python scripts that terminal programs can take advantage of. In this post, we’re going to write two Python scripts for iTerm2: one to automatically switch to/from Dark Mode, and the second to play a sound on your local speakers when an escape sequence is printed, even over SSH. I’ll also share a few bonus snippets that take advantage of some of iTerm2’s lesser known features.