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Created November 30, 2022 03:18 — forked from spkane/iterm2-reading-ruler.md
Create a Reading Ruler from iTerm2 on macOS

Create a Reading Ruler from iTerm2 on macOS

These is the rough technique that I used to create a functional, multi-puspose reading ruler out of iTerm2. A video of the results can be found on YouTube.

  1. Install Iterm2
  2. Install Homberew
  • /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  1. Use homebrew to install GNU sleep, becuase this supports the infinity aergument, which BSD sleep does not. We will ue this to keep the ruler open idefintely.
  • brew install coreutils
  1. Launch iTerm2