#Iterm2 scroll with trackpad code#

Cmd+Option+Arrow keys navigate among split panes.

Cmd+Option+Number navigates directly to a window.

Cmd+number navigates directly to a tab.

Cmd+left arrow, Cmd+right arrow navigates among tabs.

These keystrokes may be useful to remember: KeyboardĮvery aspect of the keyboard can be configured in iTerm2. Middle clicking on a tab (if your pointing device has a middle button) closes it. You can configure your pointing device's scroll gesture to send arrow keys in interactive programs by turning on Preferences > Advanced > Scroll wheel sends arrow keys when in alternate screen mode, but it will only work if Preferences > Profiles > Terminal > Disable save/restore alternate screen is turned off.Ī three-finger swipe left or right on a trackpad (if configured to 'navigate') will select an adjacent tab.

#Iterm2 scroll with trackpad code#

Right-clicking on a non-ASCII character shows its code point and UTF-8 representation.

Right-clicking on a number shows its conversion to or from hex, or if it looks like a unix timestamp its representation in local time will be shown.

Right clicking on certain values shows helpful information in the context menu:

If mouse reporting is enabled (in Preferences > Profile > Terminal) and the currently running terminal application is using it, pressing option will temporarily disable it so you can make a selection. If you hold cmd and option while selecting, a rectangular selection will be made. The current directory is tracked if you have your shell prompt set the window title, as described here, or if you have Shell Integration installed. There is special support for MacVim, TextMate, and BBEdit when you cmd-click on a text file's name: if it is followed by a colon and line number, the file will be opened at that line number. If you hold cmd and click on a filename, it will be opened. If you hold cmd and click on a URL it will be opened. If you hold cmd while dragging it will create a noncontinguous selection. In fact, you can single click in one location and shift click in an other location to make a selection: no dragging needed. If you hold shift while clicking the existing selection is extended. I recommend using three-finger tap for smart selection, but you must ensure that System Preferences > Trackpad does not have any other action already assigned to three-finger tap. You can add custom pointer actions in Preferences > Pointer. Quadruple-clicking performs a 'smart select', matching recognized strings such as URLs and email addresses. You can click and drag to perform a normal selection. The primary use of the mouse in iTerm2 is to select text, and (by default) text is copied to the clipboard immediately upon being selected. However, changes to other attributes of the profile will affect the customized session.

If you customize some attribute of the session (for example, by changing the default text color) then subsequent changes to that same attribute in the profile will not affect the customized session. The Edit Current Session panel lets you modify the appearance of a single session. You can customize these indicators in Preferences > Appearance. When the session ends, a ⃠ icon appears in the tab. An activity indicator means new out is being received. Tab labels have indicators that tell you their status. Some systems are configured to augment this with additional information such as the hostname you're logged in to or your current directory (this is done by sending a special code of ESC]0 string ^G). You can drag tabs from one window to another, and you can drag a tab from a window into a new window by dropping it outside any iTerm2 window's tab bar.īy default, the label of each tab is the name of the job that's running in that session. Note that you can drag and drop tabs to reorder them within a window.

Tabs in iTerm2 behave like tabs in other programs, most notably web browsers like Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome. If you want to open more that one session at a time, you have a few options: You can create a new window (Shell > New Window), you can create a new tab (Shell > New Tab), or you can split the current session into two panes (Shell > Split Horizontally, Shell > Split Vertically), each of which is a separate session. When you first start iTerm2, a window opens showing a terminal session.