iTerm2 help

[tomliv]

I'm new to this. I have the latest versions of Alfred and iTerm2. I am having trouble getting Alfred to use iTerm2 (Build 3.3.7) instead of Terminal. Can someone just show me the script I need for this to work? Or link to it? I'd seen a couple but nothing works.

 

Thanks!

[vitor]

Welcome @tomliv,

 

Tip when debugging: never say you’re on the the “latest”, but always the exact version (like you did with iTerm2). When you say “latest” we don’t know if you mean the latest beta or stable version, nor do we know if you’re actually on the newest version. You may think you’re up to date but be mistaken, or might be a version behind because the auto-update hasn’t kicked yet, or we may not be on what we think is the latest version but isn’t, or a multitude of other reasons. It also does not help someone who comes later with the same issue, as they’ll have no idea if their version matches yours.

 

But as to your question, this should work (it’s the code I use). Stick it in Alfred Preferences → Features → Terminal, with Application set to Custom:

on alfred_script(q)
	if application "iTerm2" is running or application "iTerm" is running then
		run script "
			on run {q}
				tell application \"iTerm\"
					activate
					try
						select first window
						set nowindows to false
					on error
						create window with default profile
						select first window
						set nowindows to true
					end try
					tell the first window
						if nowindows is false then
							create tab with default profile
						end if
						tell current session to write text q
					end tell
				end tell
			end run
		" with parameters {q}
	else
		run script "
			on run {q}
				tell application \"iTerm\"
					activate
					try
						select first window
					on error
						create window with default profile
						select first window
					end try
					tell the first window
						tell current session to write text q
					end tell
				end tell
			end run
		" with parameters {q}
	end if
end alfred_script

 

[tomliv]

vitor,

 

thank you for the script. It is working now. And for the record I am using Alfred version 4.0.8 [1135]. Sorry for not including it in my original question.

 

Thanks again!