Hi, Claudio (one of the developers) here. The motivation is that you can interact with the content of the panes both with shortcuts and programmatically, as a

Hi, Claudio (one of the developers) here. The motivation is that you can interact with the content of the panes both with shortcuts and programmatically, as an example I can link you this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JXwS7z6Dqic http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J... The other advantage is that if for any reason iTerm crashes or is closed by mistake, you can resume your session.