That's the largest gripe I've had. Eventually, I got used to not relying on GUI scrollback - that actually sped things up for me. In a pinch I just `hotkey, [` to activate scroll, then just use my mouse or page-up & page-down.
Even if you don't use tmux, get used to piping anything you'd want to read through `less`. It'll speed your workflow up.
While it's better than the default terminal, iTerm2's tmux integration has always felt weak contrasted to the advantages of tmux.
I've used tmux for the past four years as my main environment, and was totally psyched to hear they were integrating it into iTerm2. But when I began digging into it, little from my workflows translated to the "integration" provided by iTerm2.
While it's a great feature of iTerm2, I find myself just using regular old tmux instead.
What features of the tmux integration do you utilize in iTerm2?
While I love, love, simple and accessible learning material such as this - I really wish they'd encourage use of using a password alongside ssh keys. Seemingly the only draw to ssh keys for the layman is understandably disuse of passwords, but at that point (and perhaps accompanied by ill-set file permissions) you basically have your password to a remote machine written in a text file.
If anyone is learning something new in this article, please listen to me when I say when running `ssh-keygen` - put in a password. A simple one, I don't care. I promise you it's worth it.
Granted, this is the extreme, but in my mind this is simply the manifestation of the "do one thing well" mantra of *nix. The basic chains of tools allowing extensibility and chaining from one to another because they're so well-rounded in their own right.
This has always been a thing (reduction to absurdity); these days you just see it more often as javascript libraries for anything you could possibly want.
It's sad that it's been 25+ years in the making to finally get something sort of okay, and even then it's ridiculously expensive by contrast of closed source. Why can't we have something thinkpad-like for the cost? Don't they know they'd make metric craptons of money on something like that?
Just looking to be put on the list so I can try it out once it's released to a larger audience.