The sidebar

The sidebar holds your two libraries — Hosts and Snippets. A segmented switcher at the top gives the selected library the full sidebar height.

Showing and hiding

• Click the Hosts & Snippets button in the toolbar, or choose View > Toggle Sidebar (⌃⌘S).
• The sidebar can also be collapsed by dragging its edge. Any of ⌘1, ⌘2, or ⇧⌘F reveals it again.

Switching libraries

View > Hosts (⌘1) and View > Snippets (⌘2) switch the sidebar between the two libraries — or click the segments directly. Switching clears the filter.

The bottom bar

• The + button is a menu: New Host…, New Group…, or New Snippet…. It is the same menu on either tab, and it switches to the library the new entry belongs in.
• The Filter field live-filters the active list. Hosts match by name, user@host destination, group, or notes; snippets by title, command, or notes.

Filtering with the keyboard

1. Press ⇧⌘F (View > Filter Sidebar) to focus the filter field — this also reveals the sidebar if it’s hidden.
2. Type a few characters.
3. Press ↩ to act on the first match: a host connects in a new tab, a snippet is typed into the terminal. Esc clears the filter instead.

Host groups

Hosts can be sorted into groups: the Hosts tab then shows one collapsible section per group, with hosts that have no group under Ungrouped. Click a header to collapse or expand its section — OliTerm remembers the collapsed sections in every window and across launches. Right-click a header to add, rename or delete groups, and drag hosts between sections to move them; see Hosts.

The Recent group

Once a library grows beyond five entries, a Recent group appears at the top — above the full list, or above the host groups — showing the five entries you used last. Entries appear in both places; while you’re filtering, the list is flat.

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