This morning I accidentally dragged an iTerm2 tab and created a split pane in one of my tabs. I searched for quite a while to find out how to move it back to its own tab. Finally, I found it at http://groups.google.com/group/iterm2-discuss/browse_thread/thread/920ff96f710a0a93:
You can already do this by holding cmd-shift-opt and dragging the pane to a
tab bar or away from any terminal window to create a new window.
Thanks! I’ve had my cat do this a few times (I still don’t know what keys he hit!) and it’s infuriating trying to figure out how to undo it.
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Thanks, this helped me as well (back then when I was using MacOS X :-))
Thanks for the tip. This helped me also, although I’m finding that it doesn’t work if there aren’t additional tabs open. Meaning, if you start with 2 tabs and split them, there won’t be a tab bar on either pane. Just a single pane on top & bottom (if it’s a horizontal split) Since there isn’t a tab bar, I can’t seem to join the 2 panes. If one of the panes has another tab open, there will be a tab bar present, and it works perfectly though.
I may just be doing something wrong, but either way it’s a nice feature
Thanks @hf for the open-a-new-tab tip. Very helpful. It enabled me to take the tab that I had torn off into a separate window (in order to get an extra few lines for a screenshot) and then re-insert it back to its usual spot. 🙂
Hi
I just don’t understand the instructions here. Here is what I tried,
I point to the window – at the bottom below the split and press Ctrl-Shift-Opt. I try to drag. It drags the entire window, not just the bottom part. I try this again pointing at the top part. Same thing.
I right click on the window that is already split and I see commands to Split horizontally and Split vertically but no command to Unspilt or Close.
I tried the command “Bury.” It makes the window go away and is not longer even findable.
I don’t see why the program can so easily put itself in this fairly unfriendly state and not be able easily to change out of it just as easily.
As in 2020, I’m able to unsplit if I right-click and select “Move Session to Split Pane”