#312 Import/export of bookmarks and settings

[Colin Viebrock]

One of the things I was looking forward to when the bookmarks
were moved from binary format into some other formats, was an
easier way to share them between machines.

But 0.8.0 doesn't have any way to import/export the bookmarks.
And, since they are stored in the system defaults, I couldn't store
one set on my iDisk for example, and configure all my copies of
iTerm to use the same set.

So, the requests would be to either:

a) build an import/export bookmark feature (didn't 0.7.8 have
this?)

b) move the bookmarks out of the system defaults into an external
XML/plist file, and have a configuration option in iTerm >
Preferences to set where that bookmark file is.

Thanks, Ujwal!

[Ujwal S. Setlur]

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0.7.8 did not have this.

Can't you just copy the iTerm.plist over? It's already in XML. It's in ~/
Library/Preferences. You may have to adjust the permissions.

When you say "share", do you want the same preference file to be read/
written by several instances of iTerm, or just make a copy for another
instance of iTerm? If you want the same copy of the preferences, we will
have to worry about concurrent access issues. What if the iDisk is not
available when an instance if iTerm fires up?

But this is really an RFE, isn't it. I am changing the category of the report
to RFE.

[Colin Viebrock]

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I didn't realize there was ~/Library/Preferences/iTerm.plist. That makes
things considerably easier ... thanks.

When I said "share", I did mean that the same pref file would be
accessible (and editable) by several instances of iTerm, although not at
once. I do this for several files by replacing items in ~/Library/
Application Support with symlinks to files on my iDisk. And I keep a
local synced copy of my iDisk (and symlink to that), so it works even if
the remote iDisk isn't accessible.

And yes, this was an RFE ... my mistake for not categorizing it correctly.