Re: Interactive commands cant be backgrounded if run from bashrc

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/1/21 2:10 PM, C. Yang wrote:

> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc


> Description:
> 
>   Whenever I start my session, I'd like to automatically open emacs to a 
> specific file.
> 
>   So, I added the emacs command to the bottom of my ~/.bashrc file. This 
> opens emacs
> 
>   correctly when I start the session.
> 
>  
> 
>   Normally, when I start emacs, I can background the process with CTRL+Z, and 
> foreground
> 
>   with `fg` command. When emacs is started from .bashrc as above, pressing 
> CTRL+Z does
> 
>   not correctly background the process. Instead, the terminal session goes 
> blank and
> 
>   becomes unresponsive.

Bash doesn't initialize job control until after reading the startup files,
which are executed in a nominally non-interactive environment.

You can force that initialization by running `set -m'. It may work for your
purposes.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/