When comparing Terminal.app vs SideBar Enhancements, the Slant community recommends SideBar Enhancements for most people. In the question“What are the best plugins for Sublime Text?” SideBar Enhancements is ranked 2nd while Terminal.app is ranked 28th.
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Pros
Pro Default terminal on Mac
Since it is already installed by default, you don't need to worry about finding and installing another terminal.
Pro Light on System Resources
Terminal.app lighter uses less system resources than iTerm having the same number of windows, tabs and processes going on.
Pro Great compatibility
Works with everything.
Pro Easily open man pages
By right clicking on a highlighted string you can easily search through the man pages for that string and the man page will open in a nice pop up window.
Pro Excellent xterm emulation support
Pro Beautiful
Terminal has nice colors and font options.
Pro Adds goodness to context of clicks
Pro Adds a ton of functionality to the sidebar
- Move to trash
- Clipboard
- Open in browser
- Copy the content of a file as data:uri base64
- Close, move, open and restore buffers affected by a rename/move command
- Copy as tags img/a/script/style
- Duplicate
- Preference to control if a buffer should be closed when affected by a deletion operation
- Allows to display "file modified date" and "file size" on statusbar
Cons
Con Updates are released rarely
Terminal usually gets an update when any new MacOS version is released, which is every couple of years.
Con Tab names are volatile
The tab names never stick -- it's imperative that this should work.
Con Background images are stretched rather than clipped
Con Occasionally crashes
Working remotely with a full buffer may cause complete terminal app crash.
Con Home and End keys require shift being pressed
Con Data collection
SE ships your data off to Kite.
Con ST2 version is not maintained anymore
The last ST2 version is available here. All future functionality will be added only to the ST3 version.