

For example ⌘ + Left Arrow is usually the same as Home Keys and Mac equivalents don’t always work. ⌘+ Left Arrow (I usually move by tab number)Ī lot of shell shortcuts work in iterm and it’s good to learn these because arrow keys, home/end ⌘ + Shift + Enter (use with fullscreen to temp fullscreen a pane!)Ĭtrl + ⌘ + Arrow (given you haven’t mapped this to something else) ⌘ + Alt + Shift and then drag the pane from anywhere ⌘ + Shift + D (mnemonic: shift is a wide horizontal key) ⌘ + backtick (true of all mac apps and works with desktops/mission control)

If you’re experiencing any issues with your key bindings, you should check out this article. The following is a list of commands and key bindings I originally discovered here. Imagine the power one wields when being able to split terminal panes or delete entire sentences with a single keystroke…
#ITERM CHEAT SHEET HOW TO#
Learning how to operate the terminal itself quickly and efficiently is the next stage in your journey.

All of us begin our terminal journey learning the basics the commands associated with moving around the filesystem, basic file manipulation, and probably a few administrative commands (e.g. If you spend any time at all in the terminal, free from the prescriptive constraints of the GUI…iTerm 2 is worth checking out. ITerm 2 is an amazing Terminal replacement (err, technically terminal emulator) for Mac users.
