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I'm incredibly confused about why I should switch from iTerm. If you've been using Hyper, can you tell me why you switched and what was better?

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If you frequently use the command line, it's probably not for you. Think of this as similar to the Atom text editor. With html/css/js, you can create your own packages and themes or download one from the community.

I'm a simple man and like pretty, shiny things, like occasionally activating power mode, or playing the John Cena theme when you open a new tab. Stupid shit like this keeps my morale up.

- looks nicer

- easier to customize (at least for me)

- runs super smooth (not that iTerm was slow or anything)

- I'd have to confirm, but a lot syntax highlighting and things that I just want to "work" out of the box seemed more applicable to Hyper than iTerm

- extensions (not sure if iTerms extension community could rival npm)

Does it automatically recognize divisions printed by programs running in the terminal and use that to determine what text to select? (i.e. if I do a vertical split in vim, does it restrict text selection to one side or the other of the split?

1. Hyperpower plugin. power mode on, sync with my techno songs. 2. More disk space. 3. Can open facebook via terminal.

1. Your short description of "hyper power" plug-ins doesn't inspire hope.

2. How much disk space savings? 20MB? Please.

3. Wow, much features, such productivity.

> 3. Wow, much features, such productivity.

Not to mention that both xdg-open and open can both do that on GNU/Linux and OS X, respectively.

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