For a person who is comfortable with Tmux, is there any significant benefit that iTerm offers over the Terminal.app? I believe Terminal.app is better than other consoles when it comes to power consumption.
I also see little benefit over Terminal.app. Plus Terminal.app has much better performance with infinite scroll back, especially when dumping large streams
A big advantage of tmux for me is consistent keyboard shortcuts across OSs. I really like iTerm but never use the native windows feature because you loose that as far as I know. Once you’re using iterm integration you’re back to macOS shortcuts.
I must be confused. From your description I thought you were not describing my setup. Then I opened iTerm Preferences and saw that Native Windows are in fact turned on. I must have been doing it this way for a while, and I can't remember what the functionality looks like when it's toggled to "Native Tabs in a New Window."
Being able to use native macOS shortcuts like Command-` to move between windows. Native copy–paste. Focus-follow-mouse behavior for panes. Or just the ability to see multiple tmux windows (not panes) at once. And perhaps most importantly, the tmux windows actually look any any other window on macOS.
Huh, all those are features of tmux itself. I can copy/paste to/from system clipboard, I can easily movie between windows (and could set in my tmux.conf to use Command-` if I wanted), I can focus panes with the mouse, etc.
This was a big one for me. Cut/Paste between applications and whatever is running in the terminal with tmux can be a real pain. Not so much with iTerm. And the consistency goes a long ways when you're trying to get stuff done.
The major advantage is performance. With tmux, high volume output from a single pane makes the whole session unresponsive, because it locks up the pty that tmux is running on. Native panes, on the other hand, don't have such a problem because it operates on different ptys.
