Hi,

Claudio (one of the developers) here.

The motivation is that you can interact with the content of the panes both with shortcuts and programmatically, as an example I can link you this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J...

The other advantage is that if for any reason iTerm crashes or is closed by mistake, you can resume your session.

Great work Claudio! Will definitely give this a try soon.

-Ali

ie: for all those times I press ctrl-q accidently instead of ctrl-1

I'm with you there.