It&#39;s not immediately obvious in the [iTerm2 documentation](https://www.iterm2.com/documentation.html) on how to change it.

 * open the iTerm2 preferences &lt;kbd&gt;⌘&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;,&lt;/kbd&gt;
 * select the &lt;kbd&gt;Profiles&lt;/kbd&gt; tab
 * then select the &lt;kbd&gt;Terminal&lt;/kbd&gt; subtab
 * **Beware, changes to the `Scrollback lines` value take effect immediately so check `Unlimited scrollback` now if you don&#39;t want to delete your current buffer(s)**
 * change the value of the `Scrollback Lines` to whatever you&#39;d like
 * Uncheck the `Unlimited scrollback` option if you&#39;d like to use your `Scrollback lines` value

[![enter image description here][1]][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/TtFkQ.png

It&#39;s not a shell problem, it&#39;s about your terminal emulator.  
You have to find the option in the configuration / options / tools / whatever, for the number of lines to remember.

Apparently you know your terminal emulator is iterm2.

Looking for iterm2 on the google will lead you to the official website, then go to &#39;Documentation&#39;, Ctrl+F &#39;number&#39; and find

***Scrollback lines***  
*The number of lines of scrollback buffer to keep above the visible part of the screen.*


With zsh and iTerm2 Build 3.2.5, an additional step is required: Preferences-&gt;Profiles-&gt;terminal-&gt;check `UnlimitedScrollback`-&gt;Check `save lines to scrollback when an app status bar is present`

Scrolling was breaking for me without the last one.

I have a branch &#39;firstproject&#39; with 2 commits. I want to get rid of these commits and make them appear as a single commit. 

The command `git merge --squash` sounds promising, but when I run `git merge --squash` my terminal just brings up options for the command. What is the correct command? 

    Commit 1:
    Added &#39;homepage.html&#39;
    Added &#39;contacts.html&#39;

    Commit 2:
    Added &#39;homepage.php&#39;
    Added &#39;homepage.php&#39;
    Deleted &#39;homepage.html&#39;
    Deleted &#39;contacts.html&#39;



How can I combine two commits into one commit?

It had been my understanding that copy-on-write is not a viable way to implement a conforming `std::string` in C++11, but when it came up in discussion recently I found myself unable to directly support that statement.

Am I correct that C++11 does not admit COW based implementations of `std::string`?

If so, is this restriction explicitly stated somewhere in the new standard (where)?

Or is this restriction implied, in the sense that it is the combined effect of the new requirements on `std::string` that precludes a COW based implementation of `std::string`. In this case, I&#39;d be interested in a chapter and verse style derivation of &#39;C++11 effectively prohibits COW based `std::string` implementations&#39;.

Legality of COW std::string implementation in C++11

Not sure if this is zsh, iterm2 or the interaction between them.
Trying to change the number of recallable lines in the terminal - not the command history, the output history.

In .zshrc I have :

    HISTFILE=~/.histfile
    HISTSIZE=100000
    SAVEHIST=100000

This seems to be ignored =(

Not sure of the correct term to google, &quot;Terminal output history?&quot;

ZSH iterm2 increase number of lines history

Not sure if this is zsh, iterm2 or the interaction between them.
Trying to change the number of recallable lines in the terminal - not the command history, the output history.
In .zshrc I have :
<pre><code class="hljs language-ini">HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=100000
SAVEHIST=100000
</code></pre>
This seems to be ignored =(
Not sure of the correct term to google, "Terminal output history?"

 I&#39;m trying to run a `bash script` on my Ubuntu machine and it is giving me an error: 

&gt; function not found


To test, I created the following script which works fine on my laptop but not on my Desktop.  Any ideas as to why?  My laptop is a mac if that&#39;s relevant.

    #!/bin/bash
    
    function sayIt {   
       echo &quot;hello world&quot;
    }
    
    sayIt

This returns &quot;hello world&quot; on my laptop, but on my Desktop it returns:

&gt; run.sh: 3: function not found  hello world   run.sh: 5: Syntax error:
&gt; &quot;}&quot; unexpected


Bash script error: &quot;function: not found&quot;. Why would this appear?

I want to change the *rpath* of an executable using `install_name_tool`, but I can&#39;t figure out what the *rpath* is right now. `install_name_tool` requires both the old and the new *rpath*&#39;s to be given on the commandline. What command can I use to print the *rpath* of an executable under macOS?

Print rpath of an executable on macOS

I saw [this project][1] that basically opens a new terminal window from sublime text-2.&lt;br&gt;
What I&#39;m looking for is a way to open the terminal **inside** sublime text 2 via console.&lt;br&gt;
Does anyone knows how can I do that?


  [1]: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/terminal

Terminal window inside Sublime Text 2

For example, my terminal does this:

    $ echo -e &quot;\xE2\x98\xA0&quot;
    ���

I expect it to do this:

    $ echo -e &quot;\xE2\x98\xA0&quot;
    ☠

Why? How do I make my terminal output the proper unicode symbols?

I&#39;m using Gnome 3&#39;s Terminal on Arch Linux.

The output of `locale` shows:

    LANG=C
    LC_CTYPE=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_NUMERIC=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_TIME=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_COLLATE=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_MONETARY=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_MESSAGES=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_PAPER=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_NAME=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_ADDRESS=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_TELEPHONE=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_MEASUREMENT=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_IDENTIFICATION=&quot;C&quot;
    LC_ALL=


Why doesn&#39;t my terminal output unicode characters properly?

I have JUST created a new github repo on the website. Keep in mind that I am a noob but can do basic things in terminal. Anyway, so I just created the repo on my account on github.com and didn&#39;t do a single thing to it yet.

So all I want to do is take my Xcode project **folder** and upload it to my new github repo. How do I do this via terminal?

Add Xcode project to github repo?

I&#39;m having some problems installing [vows](http://vowsjs.org) via npm in zsh. Here&#39;s what I get. I tried installing it with and without the -g option. Do you have any idea what&#39;s wrong here?

    [❤  ~/Desktop/sauce-node-demo:master] npm install -g vows
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/vows
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/vows
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/eyes
    npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/diff
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/eyes
    npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/diff
    /usr/local/share/npm/bin/vows -&gt; /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/vows/bin/vows
    vows@0.6.4 /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/vows
    ├── eyes@0.1.8
    └── diff@1.0.3
    [❤  ~/Desktop/sauce-node-demo:master] vows
    zsh: command not found: vows


Thanks

Command not found after npm install in zsh

I recently started using Zsh and it&#39;s awesome. Unfortunately, for the project I consider my &quot;main&quot; project, everything is slow. What I mean is that every time I run a command - `ls`, for example - there&#39;s about a five-second delay between the time the command is executed and the time I can use the terminal again.

What could be different about this one repo that makes Zsh so slow? I assume it&#39;s a Zsh-specific thing because there was no problem before I started using Zsh. I tried doing a `git clean` but it didn&#39;t make any noticeable difference.

I&#39;m on Mac OS X if that matters.

**Update:** Turns out this line of my `.zshenv` is what was making it slow:

    [[ -s &quot;$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm&quot; ]] &amp;&amp; . &quot;$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm&quot; # Load RVM function

If I comment that line, it goes from taking about 3 seconds to taking about 1 second. Unfortunately, I need that line, since many of my projects use RVM. I don&#39;t know what to do now.

**Update 2**: this seems to be specifically an oh-my-zsh thing. If I don&#39;t load `~/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh`, I don&#39;t have a problem.

oh-my-zsh slow, but only for certain Git repo

There are many stackoverflow questions about running shell programs from within `vim`. Is it is possible to do the reverse, i.e.,

    $ vim :BundleInstall

to allow me to run [BundleInstall](https://github.com/gmarik/vundle) as part of a shell script, rather than having to open `vim` and run it manually?

How to run a vim command from the shell command-line?

I&#39;ve been digging through iTerm2&#39;s settings but I can&#39;t seem to find a way to make it launch Zsh instead of Bash, does anybody know the proper way to do this inside iTerm2?

I ask this because I come from Mac Terminal, and it easily lets you choose what to run at startup, but I can&#39;t seem to find something straight forward with iTerm2.

I searched Google for it, but for some reason I can only find oh-my-zsh references, nothing related to un-modded iTerm2.

I appreciate any help you can provide, thanks. :)

Make iTerm2 launch with Zsh

What does it mean and how can I fix it?

    zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list.
    Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]?

Running the `compaudit` returns the follows:

    There are insecure directories:
    /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions


zsh compinit: insecure directories

Is there a way to temporarily expand a split pane into full tab and go back again when done?
I am looking for a keyboard shortcut to do so. The use case is to be able to temporarily switch to full-screen on demand.

iTerm2: How to expand split pane temporarily?

Everyone at work recommended iTerm2 to me instead of the native Terminal.  But iTerm2 doesn&#39;t seem to allow me to use bash shortcuts like &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;B &lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt; to jump back/forward between tokens, or &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt; to delete a word.

I can&#39;t imagine this isn&#39;t available.  Can anyone help me out?

Bash keyboard shortcuts in iTerm like Alt+d and Alt+f

I&#39;m using irssi in one pane and [nicklist.pl](http://wouter.coekaerts.be/irssi/nicklist) in the other, and whenever I&#39;m in the irssi pane, the nicklist pane is dimmed:

![](http://i.imgur.com/LXcYIEH.png)

How do I stop the inactive pane from dimming?

iTerm2: Stopping the inactive pane from dimming

Often in workflow you are working within a directory and then need to create a second terminal or session to the same directory.

    TAB 1
    #~/home
    cd really
    #~/home/really
    cd long
    #~/home/really/long
    cd filepath
    #~/home/really/long/filepath
    node filepath
    #session now occupied 

    #new TAB
    #CTR + T
    #~/home
    #I want to be in the same filepath 
    

is there a setting somewhere to do this? 



Create New Tab Sessions with the same working Directory

I needed to reformat my computer and now I&#39;m having trouble copying the settings/profiles over.

I copied the files in `~/Library/Application\ Support/iTerm/`

I also copied `~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist` but it keeps giving me this error:

    Failed to load preferences from custom directory. Falling back to local copy.
    
    Missing or malformed file at &quot;/
    com.googlecode.iterm2.plist&quot;

----

I also tried saving the profile in a directory so I could send it but it doesn&#39;t work. 

Here&#39;s the location:

iTerm ▶ General ▶ Preferences ▶ Save Settings To Folder

and here&#39;s the output:

    Failed to copy preferences to custom directory. Copy     
    /Users/alexcory/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist 
    to Alex_Corys_iTerm_Configuration/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist: 
    No such process

----
The colors work, (found in the path below) but I&#39;m not simply trying to save colors, but rather all my preferences.

iTerm ▶ Preferences ▶ Profiles ▶ Colors ▶ Load Presets ▶ Export


Does anyone know how to get this to work?



How to export iTerm2 Profiles

I&#39;m trying to map &lt;kbd&gt;⌘+Delete&lt;/kbd&gt; (backspace) to delete to the beginning of the line (like it works in browsers and text editors) in **iTerm2** and I&#39;m unable to find a working escape code for it. I tried &lt;Esc&gt;1K (`^[1K`) based on what I read [in Wikipedia][1]. It just prints a &quot;K&quot;. 

Edit: I found &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+U&lt;/kbd&gt;. Now to find out how to map it. Maybe Hex code 21 (U being 21st letter), so 0x15? 


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

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Legality of COW std::string implementation in C++11

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