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Looks neat.

Looks like no port to Mac yet...? That's cool. I''ll wait.

I'm a pretty basic user loving iTerm on Mac. One feature I really want is mouse positioning and selection of text (for the current command line). Arrow navigation is okay, but I'm a casual user not a power user.

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If you're using bash and you're familiar with vim, you can use the command "set -o vi" and start using Vi bindings to jump around/cut/delete/modify text in your current prompt.

I'm sorry, he says "I'm a casual user, not a power user" and your first instinct is to suggest that he use vi keybindings in bash?

My first instinct is to suggest something that already works for what he wants to do. If he's using a Terminal window on a frequent enough basis that he's looking for a solution, it makes more sense to suggest one than to say "Gosh, yeah, that'd be useful, I hope this terminal emulator releases in the next year some time so that you can do what you want to do with that!"

Oh, I wasn't saying that. I was saying why vi key bindings and not the default emacs key bindings? I think they are a bit more intuitive for someone who hasn't used vim before.

Protip: hold "alt" and press left or right to move by word instead of character.

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