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I wish they'd just fix the bug where typing "~" crashes Terminal.app (depending on your keyboard language) :(

Can you give us the steps to reproduce? I googled around but couldn't find the bug. I also tried a few different languages and I can't get Terminal.app to crash.

Set keyboard to Norwegian. Type Ctrl+"¨" (they key that is the dead-key for ñ, if you were to type Alt+"¨"+n) Crash.

Edit: Here's the same bug in VLC: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7268

Have you tried iTerm?

Maybe I should, but 10.8's Terminal.app seemed to have everything I need (well, except for the crash reporter ruining my work every time I forget and type ~)

I switched to iTerm a long time ago and never looked back. I recommend it.

iTerm 2 is brilliant, I can't imagine using the default Terminal for anything, ever.

Enlighten us. I have read the feature list over the years and don't see anything that really stands out enough.

Panes and saved pane layouts are handy; I generally want to move all my terminals in a group and they're great for that.

It also has great tmux support built into the client.

The only one that keeps me using it is mouse support. Terminal.app doesn't actually send any mouse events.

You know, it's funny. I said the exact same thing you did, then a friend convinced me to try iTerm2 about a year ago. I still couldn't put my finger on what's better about it, exactly, but I've never considered going back after the first day. It just feels right.

It's probably easier to try than it is to find out why to try it...

I say the same thing about why I loathe Chrome and adore Safari. I can't really say why, Safari just feels right.

I've found iTerm2 to be extremely slow on large buffers compared to Terminal.

You mean iTerm or iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com ?

He without a doubt means iTerm2.

Looks like it is on github now...

https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2

> I wish they'd just fix the bug where typing "~" crashes Terminal.app (depending on your keyboard language) :(

How did this bug survive the testing process?

Wait. I think I just answered my own question.

It's quite terrible. I even reported it on bugreport.apple.com on 10.8.0, but neither 10.8.1 nor 10.8.2 fixed it.

I can't believe there's no-one at Apple using i18n keyboard layouts and Terminal.app.

It's not like typing "~" is an uncommon event on the command line....

Meanwhile, VLC fixed the same bug (typing ~ in the VLC.app UI textfields) in about 30 minutes.

Doesn't apply to US-International keyboards, I use "~" all the time.

Did you try some other i18n keyboard layouts, like Norwegian or Swedish?

Mine is Swedish, and I am unable to reproduce it.

It crashes with Swedish layout on 10.8.2 when I type Ctrl + ¨ on my computer. (Alt+~+space seems to work, though)

Doesn't crash my Terminal.app. I use a swedish keyboard. Perhaps you could create a new clean account on your computer and try it there? You can always delete the account afterwards.

Interesting. Must be some kind of pref setting or something that's surfacing the bug. Ugh, sounds hard to track down.

Yup, and that's why I suggests you create a new fresh user and try it there. If the bug doesn't show there it's something in your personal settings somewhere, if not it's in the system settings.

Bug number?

problem id 12024039

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