I recently downloaded iTerm2 because I had been hearing this. I can't for the life of me see why anyone thinks it is better than Terminal.

It might just be my usage pattern, which is basically tmux. I was even briefly excited about the so called tmux integration of iTerm2, but it actually made a great tool worthless.

Now I'm interested. Why is it better? I use terminal only to navigate and run commands, no Vim or Emacs. How will iTerm make my life better?

aiscott: terminal.app got a decent boost in Lion.. prior to that it was pretty lacking for people used to your basic linux terminal even. iterm2 fixed that up around the sametime andgot traction, thats all. you are nt missing anything, go with what wjorks for yourself.

I think the whole differences are in some edge cases (though for some those cases could be their bread and butter), like escape codes handling, advanced ncurses stuff, etc etc.