You can download iTerm2 for free from Google Code or poke around in it’s source if you’re into that sort of thing. Be sure to grab the latest svn build if you want split pane support. If you spend a fair amount of time in Mac OS X command line, I’d recommend checking out iTerm2. It’s also worth mentioning that the iTerm2 app is currently named iTerm, so if you have the older iTerm installed on your Mac you may want to rename this one before tossing it in your Applications directory. ITerm2 is currently in alpha, but it works well and development is actively aiming to achieve “the best command line experience under Mac OS X.” There are a few odd display related bugs when you split screens horizontally and have a transparent background enabled, but usually just clearing the terminal works the display kinks out. I still use the Mac OS X GUI for a bunch of tasks so I just maximized my split Terminals as you can see in the screenshot above, then I adjusted the preferences so that the terminal focus follows my mouse rather a mouse click. You can also combine the two to get tiled terminal windows, and then enter full-screen mode to get the full command line experience. But the goal is for iTerm to keep its windows open so the session restoration feature can work properly. This option is enabled by default and tells macOS to close all open windows when you quit an application.
Splitting the iTerm2 Terminal windows is really easy, once you’re in the app just hit Command+D to split the window vertically, or Command+Shift+D to split the window horizontally. Next, untick the Close windows when quitting an app checkbox under the General settings. ITerm2 is a fork of the original iTerm project for Mac OS X that has some cool features that the default Mac Terminal doesn’t, but the ability to split Terminal windows both horizontally or vertically is the main reason I use the app.
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