Re: "C-z bg" without the lurch

[Sebastian Kapfer]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 09:51 +0800 schrieb jidanni@jidanni.org:
> There are many times one has not planned ahead, and forgets the &:
> $ emacs -nw important.txt #then after a half an hour of editing:
> ^Z
> [1]+  Stopped                 emacs -nw important.txt
> $ compact_disk_burner_GUI_application #forgot to add &
[...]
> Anyway, how could it be that the mighty bash can't let me get back to
> my emacs without lurching my CD burning job, even for a split second?

This doesn't really answer your question, but one solution is:

In another xterm (I assume this is X11): pkill -CONT emacs

This does work for programs that don't insist on reading from the TTY
they're on, which is probably true for the X11 version of Emacs (I
prefer more spartanic editors myself *g*).

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