Home General Usage Preferences Profiles Bookmarks Scripting Installation Misc | Bookmarks The bookmarks are more than just a convenience. They allow you to run different sessions, connecting to different servers, with different setup and behavior, all at the easy of one key-stroke. Besides Name and three Profiles, A bookmark has three fields: Command This lets you to specify the command you want to run. The default will be login -fp your_user_name. You can however run whatever you want. Full path to the command is not necessary. You can even specify parameters with $$. iTerm will replace anything between a pair of $$ with the result from a input panel. For example, if your command is ssh $$USER NAME$$@myserver.com, you will get an input panel asking for USER NAME when you launch this bookmark. Say you type in joe, then ssh joe@myserver.com will become the command. You can have multiple parameters. iTerm will ask you to enter each of them. And you can have the same parameters many times. iTerm will ask you once and replace all of them. Parameters are also used in URL handlers Working Directory This let you to specify where you would like to launch the bookmark. This however will only work when you are on a local machine. And login will always take you to your home directory. To get a shell at your desired location, launch a shell command such as bash directly instead of login. Shortcut Key You can specify a key to be used with Command-CTRL as a shortcut key to launch a new bookmark. By default, the bookmark will be launched as a new tab in the front window. You can add Option key to launch it in a new window. Option key is also used in bookmark menus when you want to launch a bookmark in a new window.

Modified: Nov 16th, 2006
Created: Dec 18th, 2002
Fabian and Ujwal S. Setlur
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