Every once in a while I wonder if I’m using an unnecessary 3rd party app when a built-in on macOS would be sufficient. Terminal.app is one such app - I’ve used iTerm2 for many years, but I don’t use a bunch of its features, and every time I open iTerm2 settings it feels like overkill.
I was on my spouse’s Mac over the weekend helping her get some things set up and used Terminal.app, and was pretty happy with it. So, I decided to try it on my Mac. Nope. It still only supports 256 colors, which I had forgotten. This post is here simply to remind me next time I get the itch to use this macOS built-in.
To replicate this test, run this:
curl -fsSLo ~/bin/color-spaces https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robertknight/konsole/master/tests/color-spaces.pl
chmod u+x ~/bin/color-spaces
color-spaces
Terminal.app
iTerm2
