Ah, indeed, I think I read your initial post too quickly.
In playing around with fg/bg just now, I've noticed that you have can't
just specify a number: `fg 1`, but instead have to specify it like this:
`fg %1`
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Elias Assmann <elias.assm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 06/20/2013 06:49 PM, Robert Carpenter wrote:
>
>> I do this all the time under fish and have no problem. ^z to background
>> a running task, `jobs` to see what is running, `fg` or `fg N` to bring
>> something forward. It even works with the `command &` syntax to
>> background a job at command time.
>>
>
> “fg” and “fg %n” are very similar in both shells; “fg” means “bring the
> most recent job to the foreground”.
>
> Bash offers the additional syntax “fg -” which brings the next-most-recent
> job to the foreground. This is useful for alternating between two jobs.
> Let's say we start two terminal applications:
>
> $ octave
> octave:1> ^Z
> [1]+ Stopped octave
> $ emacs -nw
> ^Z
> [2]+ Stopped emacs -nw
> $ jobs
> [1]- Stopped octave
> [2]+ Stopped emacs -nw
>
> Note the “+” and “-”. Now, successive “fg -”s switch back and forth:
>
> $ fg -
> octave
> ^Z
> $ fg -
> emacs -nw
>
> By the way, bash's “fg” offers another nicety: it remembers which jobs
> were started in the background (i.e. with “&”, rather than sent to the
> background later) and excludes them from “fg [-]”. In the example, say I
> open a document with “gv &”; if I then say “fg” it is unlikely that I want
> to bring “gv” to the foreground.
>
>
> Elias
>
>
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