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Not Using Terminal.app on Mac OS X? [closed]

Not Using Terminal.app on Mac OS X? [closed]

Is there any advantage to using something other than Terminal (like iTerm or whatever) on Mac OS X? Terminal seems to work quite well, but comfort is often deceptive.

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Guest [Entry]

Have you seen iTerm2's features? It does things no other terminal does: you can go back in time like TiVo, it has autocomplete, mouseless copy-paste, it stores more than one string in its clipboard, and there are more keyboard shortcuts than in Terminal.
Guest [Entry]

Vandyke's SecureCRT was just released for the Mac. It has a nice way of remembering hosts you connect to and letting you select one of those from a list. Maybe Terminal can also do this, but its profile system is not easy to figure out, and most people I see who use Terminal.app manually type out a remote connection at a shell: ssh me@somewhere....