Spyder vs iTerm2

Released under the MIT license.

Spyder can plot graphs and provide the list of all variables.

Spyder's autocomplete features are made possible by a library called rope which gives Spyder powerful autocompletion.

Aside from being an open sourced, actively developed IDE, vim key-binding support is also available. If you remember Pydee - this is it, albeit with a new name.

Pylint integration enables to check the code for PEP8 style guide and detect errors.

Spyder (formerly Pydee) has support for all of the major operating platforms - Linux, Mac, and even Windows.

Dynamic variable explorer with editor and visualizer

iTerm has autocomplete features built in. It remembers your past commands and when you are writing something on the terminal, simply pressing Control-; it will show you a drop down menu of suggestions from which to choose.

Other than being able to customize the various shortcuts, iTerm2 also lets you customize the colorscheme, font, transparency, etc.

It's possible to choose a font and adjust vertical and horizontal spacing.

Unlike most terminal emulators, iTerm2 comes with a pretty complete set of features. It has built-in search, autocompletion, tabbed navigation, Growl support and even a built-in clipboard manager for various API keys and such.

Using the Preferences Menu you can set up hotkeys to map virtually any action you can think of to a single key or a combination of them. This is extremely helpful as it allows you to use shortcuts to edit commands you are typing in the terminal and while most terminal emulators have shortcuts for this sort of thing, few of them let you define your own.

You can Ctrl+Click on a file path to open said file in a text editor.

Issues resolved fast by quality contributors.

If an application has terminal integration, there is high probability it allows iTerm2 to be selected.

Has support for mouse actions like clicking, dragging, selecting, etc.

Can be configured to work as a drop down terminal like Quake.

iTerm2 is completely free and open source. It's released under the GPLv2 license.

The great mouse and clipboard support that are built-in go really well with tmux.

Easy to split panes to either horizontal or vertical sections. Makes it easy to observe multiple console windows.

iTerm2 can store up to 4M of history of commands you already used. This, coupled with the built-in search features makes it possible to type a command only once and then search for it through the history for subsequent uses.

Very handy to use multi-tab.

It's a perfect base to add Oh My Zsh on top of it and enjoy a lot of themes and a really pleasant look and feel.

Wanna SSH your server from multiple tabs, here you go.