iTerm2 vs Mou

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.

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.

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

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

Issues resolved fast by quality contributors.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Very handy to use multi-tab.

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.

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

Mou has word auto-completion (accessed via 'esc') for English words, text transformation such as conversions to uppercase, blockquote or an h1 heading, html entities (sych as <’s, &’s and spaces) that can be added anywhere in the text and customizable keyboard shortcuts for everything allowing for efficient use of the software's capabilities.

Mou provides full syntax highlighting for Markdown. The highlighting can be customized manually or by applying a predefined theme.

Mou is split into two columns. It displays raw Markdown on the left and formatted text on the right. Text on the right will update in near real-time as raw Markdown is written.

Mou can do incremental ("find as you type") pattern matching search. For example, it can find all words that have x as the third letter followed by at least 4 more letters and a line break.

Mou is available as a free download up until the release of 1.0.

The whole editor can be customized using different color schemes and users can create own variations by editing CSS.

Mou supports CJK characters for writing Markdown in Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Markdown can be exported as an HTML or a PDF file. Each export can also be styled by a custom CSS.

Mou has keyboard shortcuts for all text manipulation actions allowing for highly efficient use of the software. These shortcuts can also be manually edited to better fit each individual workflow.

The app includes optional atmospheric typewriter sounds that are triggered with each keypress. These can be enabled in the settings.

Mou allows writing and publishing to blogs from within the editor.