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I have tried to use Terminal, but I just can't. The ability to highlight and automatically have the text in clipboard is such a crucial feature in my workflow that not having it even as an option is a deal breaker.

Once I started with iTerm and built a config/flow around it, I can't go back.

Thanks for the tip though! I didn't realize this worked in Terminal too. I'll keep it in mind the next time I'm forced to use it.

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Check out TotalTerminal. It's a plugin for Terminal that has that feature among others. http://totalterminal.binaryage.com

Same here. Switched to iTerm for proper mouse support in Vim, and you need only click (no option key) to move your cursor in Vim if you have `mouse=a` in your vimrc.

I used to be a die-hard Terminal.app user but with Mavericks it felt incredibly sluggish doing everything from opening to listing files to editing things and this is another reason I moved to iTerm.

Be warned, though, that if you're using Vim with Solarized you and you're trapped in low color mode you want to be sure you're declared as a 256 color term and update your `vimrc` to remove the following for the colorscheme to work properly:

Remove:

* let g:solarized_termcolors = 256

* let g:solarized_termtrans = 1

* let g:solarized_contrast = "normal"

* let g:solarized_visibility = "normal"

I added mouse support to Terminal via MouseTerm: https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/. Works like a charm with Vim.

Command-shift-v pastes the current selection into Terminal (and anywhere else in OSX).

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