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If you use iTerm

.. and a mac of course, since iTerm is a terminal app for osx, be weary of one shortcut.

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I'm sure it's really really useful when you want to use it. I'm sure it's the coolest functionality ever. When you want it. I'm just not sure it should be so easy to turn on by accident.

What does it do, you ask?

Send keyboard input to all open tabs. Oy.

Posted by kasia on March 16, 2006 10:02 PM |

Comments

Dear god, that's terrifying.

Posted by: Anonymous | March 17, 2006 11:21 AM

Ouch... Yeah, nothing like working in five or six terminal windows, hitting that shortcut and typing 'rm -rf *' in the directory you are working in... Nice big bloody mess. I hope that's not how you figured out what that shortcut did.

Posted by: Jeremy | March 17, 2006 01:15 PM

Did you send your password to all your open terminals ?

Posted by: Raj Shekhar | March 21, 2006 12:36 AM

Excuse the late response...

Under System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts, you can remap any menu option in any proper Mac app.

There are several apps I never want to quit unless I'm shutting everything down, and I too easily hit cmd-Q instead of cmd-W, so I remapped them to sh-ctrl-alt-cmd-Q...

Something like that might make iTerm more tolerable.

I should start using iTerm, I have a giant stack of Terminal windows (6 at present).

Posted by: Mark Hughes | March 27, 2006 10:55 PM