another example of apple selling its own farts in bottles. this feature is completely worthless. there's no way to switch between panes, when I first tested it out the second pane only replicated the output of the first pane for ONE command (pwd), you can't do anything useful with the second pane when it breaks/stops responding, and if you do get useful output in a pane, it disappears into the ether when you close that pane.
If they were going to add features to the Terminal, I would have liked the following:
1. The ability to set word boundary characters so I can double-click to select a URL or file path.
2. The ability, when entering in stuff on the command line, to skip forwards/backwards a word at a time, instead of one character at a time (which is really frustrating).
These two features have been available in other Unix Terminal apps for more than 10 years.
You can already do #2. ESC b and ESC f jump the cursor by word boundaries.
I like to tweak Terminal to bind the action to control left and right arrow -->
Open Terminal's preferences, click on the profile you use, then click on the Keyboard tab.
Edit control-cursor-left and control-cursor-right, set them to ESC-b and ESC-f, respectively (they'll show up as \033b and \033f). Now when you type control left-arrow and control-right arrow, you'll jump around by words.
@HappySpaceInvdr to address #2 you can use Alt+B for back 1 word and Alt+F for forward 1 word. the bash command line uses emacs keyboard shortcuts by default (you can also tell it to use vim keyboard shortcuts).
The problem is: when you split the window in two, both STDIN and STDOUT are moved to the new pane. So you can't, for example tail file output or run a code build and then split the screen to get a new prompt with its own IN/OUT while the old screen carries on with the output of the earlier command.
That's the problem: you can't. As soon as you create a new pane, you take all of your i/O with you, leaving the previous pane dangling. There's a thread open in Apple Discussions suggesting that this feature is actually broken in the retail version of Snow Leopard.
Hmm, if you have a look at my video it shows what it does on my system, which could be of use, once i split it the output in the original pane stops updating.
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When i start up Terminal its just a screen, without anything in it..
WHAT DO I GOTTA DO>?
is my mac screwed right now?
Colinowww 2 months ago
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another example of apple selling its own farts in bottles. this feature is completely worthless. there's no way to switch between panes, when I first tested it out the second pane only replicated the output of the first pane for ONE command (pwd), you can't do anything useful with the second pane when it breaks/stops responding, and if you do get useful output in a pane, it disappears into the ether when you close that pane.
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zect54 2 years ago
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btrvb 2 years ago
If they were going to add features to the Terminal, I would have liked the following:
1. The ability to set word boundary characters so I can double-click to select a URL or file path.
2. The ability, when entering in stuff on the command line, to skip forwards/backwards a word at a time, instead of one character at a time (which is really frustrating).
These two features have been available in other Unix Terminal apps for more than 10 years.
HappySpaceInvdr 2 years ago 2
You can already do #2. ESC b and ESC f jump the cursor by word boundaries.
I like to tweak Terminal to bind the action to control left and right arrow -->
Open Terminal's preferences, click on the profile you use, then click on the Keyboard tab.
Edit control-cursor-left and control-cursor-right, set them to ESC-b and ESC-f, respectively (they'll show up as \033b and \033f). Now when you type control left-arrow and control-right arrow, you'll jump around by words.
cornthrower 2 years ago
I can skip words forward/backward with alt+arrows. I don't know if it's because I use ZSH or some thing else I have customized.
vesan2000 2 years ago
@HappySpaceInvdr to address #2 you can use Alt+B for back 1 word and Alt+F for forward 1 word. the bash command line uses emacs keyboard shortcuts by default (you can also tell it to use vim keyboard shortcuts).
charlesreid1 4 months ago
Who knows? Only a passing mention is made on Apple's website and the Terminal help section doesn't mention it at all.
HappySpaceInvdr 2 years ago
I'm struggling to find a practical application for this feature as there's apparently no way to switch between panes.
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btrvb 2 years ago
I think it is to keep track of different activities.
btrvb 2 years ago
The problem is: when you split the window in two, both STDIN and STDOUT are moved to the new pane. So you can't, for example tail file output or run a code build and then split the screen to get a new prompt with its own IN/OUT while the old screen carries on with the output of the earlier command.
HappySpaceInvdr 2 years ago
If you have an activity that runs for a long time with a lot of output you can use the other pane to look through it.
btrvb 2 years ago
That's the problem: you can't. As soon as you create a new pane, you take all of your i/O with you, leaving the previous pane dangling. There's a thread open in Apple Discussions suggesting that this feature is actually broken in the retail version of Snow Leopard.
HappySpaceInvdr 2 years ago
Hmm, if you have a look at my video it shows what it does on my system, which could be of use, once i split it the output in the original pane stops updating.
btrvb 2 years ago
Tried posting the link but it won't have it!
btrvb 2 years ago
If you look closely at the scroll bar on the top pane you will see that it scrolls up when vim is run (24 seconds into the video).
In order to see the top being updated, you need to scroll down to the bottom.
zect54 2 years ago