iTerm 2.9 beta creates too many folders in Application Support

iTerm 2.9.20160313, when opened for the very first time, will create both of the following dirs:

~/Library/Application Support/iTerm

~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2

It will create both of them even if neither existed prior to opening iTerm 2.9. This is confusing and also seems needless; can't it just be one or the other?

There are some other places where the app can't seem to make up its mind regarding "iTerm" versus "iTerm2", such as in the Applescript support, where you have to use "iTerm2" when you do

tell app "System Events" to (name of every process) contains "iTerm2"

But you have to use "iTerm" when you do

tell app "iTerm" to...

In both cases, if you use the other name it fails. I hope that just one name can be settled on and made consistent throughout the app.

The iTerm folder is there for backward compatibility. I should look into removing it in 3.1.

It responds to both names in applescript because the app folder can't be renamed since most people are upgrading from prior to the name change.

Milestone changed to Feature Complete 3.1

It responds to both names in applescript because the app folder can't be renamed since most people are upgrading from prior to the name change.

That's fine, but it wasn't documented (AFAIK), so I spent quite a while wondering why iTerm2 wouldn't respond to my Applescript.

I can see how that would be confusing. I expect to be out of beta relatively soon at which point the docs will be updated.

Status changed to closed