iTerm2

iTerm2 is an open source replacement for Apple's Terminal. It's highly customizable and comes with a lot of useful features.

Installation

Use Homebrew to download and install:

brew install --cask iterm2

Customization

Colors and Font Settings

Here are some suggested settings you can change or set, they are all optional.

• Set hot-key to open and close the terminal to command + option + i
• Go to profiles -> Default -> Terminal -> Check silence bell to disable the terminal session from making any sound
• Download one of iTerm2 color schemes and then set these to your default profile colors
• Change the cursor text and cursor color to yellow make it more visible
• Change the font to 14pt Source Code Pro Lite. Source Code Pro can be downloaded using Homebrew brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts && brew install --cask font-source-code-pro
• If you're using BASH instead of ZSH you can add export CLICOLOR=1 line to your ~/.bash_profile file for nice coloring of listings

MacOS shortcuts ⌘←, ⌘→ and ⌥←, ⌥→

You might be familiar with shortcuts to skip a word (⌥) or go to start/end of the line (⌘). iTerm is not set up to work with these shortcuts by default but here's how you set them up:

Open up iTerm2 preferences (⌘ + ,) -> Profiles -> Keys -> Click on + icon (add new Keyboard shortcut).