Never understood why people use iTerm. I know back in the day it was because of the lack of tabs in Terminal.app, but tabs were added long ago and tmux was always a better option for that kind of functionality anyway.

Genuinely curious because I feel like I'm missing something. I tried it again a while ago and still couldn't see anything I couldn't already do.

Tons of features.

- Multiple profiles

- Logging of terminal output to files

- Regexp search

- Search marks matches in the scrollbar

- Quick jump between prompts — it knows where prompts are in the output, so you can quickly scroll to each position

- Window splitting

- Filtering — like find, but filters the window to only show matches

- Triggers: Do an action such as bouncing the app icon or playing a sound when a text string occurs)

- Status bar: Show the Git branch, current directory, etc. — better than custom prompts

- Preserves windows/tabs on restart/reboot, even current directory and window contents

- Cmd-Click to open files and URLs

I bet Terminal.app has gained some of these features over the years , but it certainly doesn't have have all of them.

My Neovim color scheme doesn’t work on Terminal.app. That’s, literally, the only reason I chose iTerm.

> tmux was always a better option for that kind of functionality anyway

Not sure a lot of people would agree. Tmux is way less intuitive than tabs/split panes directly supported by the terminal emulator. Also tmux is dog slow compared to native tabs.

For me, it's some very simple things. Like being able to set the alt behaviour separately for left/right alt (so I can have the meta behaviour while still being able to type funky characters)

I use it for `tmux -CC`.

Can it split windows too and have some simple way to select the content?

Truecolor.

Already a deal breaker.