On 5/2/06, Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/1/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/28/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone actually use %+ and %- in bash, i.e. the last and next to > > last job to be used? 'fg' and 'bg' don't have to use %+, since running > > 'fg' or 'bg' with no arguments will do the same thing, and I find it > > easier to remember the job id of the current jobs than to remember > > what job was second last to be used. Therefore, I've seen very little > > reason to implement them, but I suppose different people might have > > different tastes. > > I'll take that as a no. Excellent. One less feature! :-D > Wait, I do ;-). I don't care whether it will be called %- or $job_order[1] or (jobs -o 1) but I do want a way to access the order in which jobs were last activated (launched or fg'd). In bash I have "alias gf 'fg %-'" which is very handy for alternating between 2 jobs; given the ordering of all jobs, it will be easy to implement more sophisticated switching...
I guess I agree. It does make it easier to switch because you don't have to think about which job you are switching to. Also, if a couple of jobs start with the same string, it is long to use the "fg commandstring" pattern. For example, you may heve to type "fg vi\ /home/user1/project/file1" Perhaps it should be "fg -o 1" and "fg -o 2", which would be aliased to "fg1" and "fg2". This is not slower to type than "%-" because you do not need to press the Shift key.
Actually that's not what I really need. Job control is a poor solution in today's windowed environments. What would be really nice is for every suspended or backgrounded job to go to a new tab of the terminal. I'll check whether I can cook something up using 'dtach' and report back...
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