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-General Usage
-For casual users, iTerm can be straightforward. When starting up, iTerm will create a default session that take
-you to your home directory with your default shell. You can however set up iTerm in millions of ways. This can be
-done in the Preferences Panel, Profiles Window, and
-Bookmarks Window.
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-The Tab
-The tab might be the most important feature of iTerm. It works as (and looks like) the tabs in Safari. Further more,
-you can drag and drop tabs between windows, tear down a tab to create a new window, or even join a window with just
-one tab into another window. All tabs with a window will have the same size and same font, regardless what the
-settings for each session is. However, if you tear a tab to create a new window, it will restore its own setting.
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-By default, the label of each tab is the name of the session. You can however change the label either from the Info
-panel, or using escape sequences (ESC ]0;string^G) from within the session. The color of the label indicate the
-status of the tab. Normally it will be black. A dead session has a greyed out label. If a background tab is having
-some new output, its label will change into magenta. Once the new output stops, its label will be red. Therefore,
-you can run a long make in the background. You do not have to check it frequently. Once the label changes
-to the red, you know it is probably done. You can also set up a Growl notification in case you have iTerm window
-buried underneath other windows.
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-Toolbar
-The toolbar lets you do things quickly. The New button gives you a list of bookmarks to launch.
-Hold the Option key for launching in a new window. The Info brings up the Info panel.
-The Bookmarks gives you a bookmark draw. That is just one more way to launch a new session. It
-is especially useful when you need to look at your bookmarks all the time. The Close button closes
-the front tab, and the window if it is the last tab. And finally, the Execute field lets you
-to type in the command locally before you send it to the terminal. You can also type in a URL. In this case, iTerm
-will launch the URL handler, in some case it is another application. If you press TAB key instead of Enter after you
-type in the command, a new session will be launched with your command.
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-Info Panel
-Info Panel lets you examine the property of the session. You can change the settings. Notice the change
-you do here will not be saved, unless you press the Update button.
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-Mouse
-Although iTerm is a command line tool, it nevertheless lets you to use the invention of GUI era, the mouse. Mouse
-works mostly the way you would expect. Xterm mouse reporting is supported (there is an option in the Terminal
-profile to switch it on and off). Hold down Option key will temporarily disable xterm mouse reporting, so that
-you can select and paste text. Double-click selects a word, triple-click selects a line. Quadruple-click, well,
-does nothing yet. Shift key lets you extend a selection. Ctrl key mimics the right-click. Command-click launchs
-a URL. Command key is also used to drag and drop selected text. If your mouse has a wheel, that works too.
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-Keyboard
-Key behavior is very configurable in iTerm. Go to Profiles Window to set it up to
-your taste. By default, command left/right arrow lets you cycle through the tabs. Command 1 to 9 brings you
-directly to a tab. Command ` and ~ cycle through the windows.
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-If you have problem using certain keys in your session, make sure your TERM setting is correct. iTerm uses
-terminfo to get the key information. If that does not work, you can always create a keyboard profile to specify
-your own key bindings. Many key bindings invovling the Command key need to be "high priority".
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-Contextual menus
-There are a couple of useful contextual menus available in iTerm. The first one is available by right or control
-clicking in the text view of a tab. This brings up options to launch new sessions or select among the sessions already
-open. When the option key is held down, new sessions are opened in new windows.
-Also, selected text can also be sent to the default web browser and email client. You can launch a google search
-for the selected text. You can also command-click on URLs to launch them directly. Finally, other standard functions
-such as copy, paste, save, and close are also available.
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-The other contextual menu is availble by right or control clicking on a session's tab. This menu provides options to
-select among open tabs and to move a specific tab to a separate window.
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