From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no job control in this shell (was: Proposal: "C-z " reserved for users) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:22:26 +0100 Message-ID: <874kikh4z1.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <1973673328.2493716.1612740554692.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1973673328.2493716.1612740554692@mail.yahoo.com> <83tuqnkzff.fsf@gnu.org> <87czxap89f.fsf@zoho.eu> <87eehp4wae.fsf@mbork.pl> <8ed9b43502f51689d8b1@heytings.org> <87czx9kwrc.fsf@zoho.eu> <87r1lpjg9q.fsf@zoho.eu> <87ft24hk4b.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32232"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:+WszeKTl4Kb7g2seBB2488v0jRA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 06:23:02 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l9hxt-0008G0-Jv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:23:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47162 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9hxs-0008Jy-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9hxY-0008Jc-Sl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:22:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:34310) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9hxW-0000hV-1D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:22:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l9hxT-0007oM-Do for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:22:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127756 Archived-At: Skip Montanaro wrote: > The references you posted kind of suggested zsh to me Yes, zsh. > If you are using bash, does executing > > set -m > > allow you to use job control (fg and bg)? When I searched > for "no job control in this shell," that was the suggestion. > If I execute > > set +m > emacs -nw Indeed, that works. It works even without the set and -nw. `suspend-frame', do something else, jobs, fg JOB back to Emacs. All of that works, with bash. I don't need this so we can drop it, just wanted to do it once to see what was going on. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal