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[Douglas McIlroy]

> I opened them all in vim instances running in the background at login time,
> and then I read email until they were all loaded. I then put the process
> with the file I needed into the foreground, examined it, and returned to
> the shell with :stop (which all command line editors should have) when I
> was done. Worked like a charm.

A curious mix of present and past tenses. Haven't window systems made
foreground/background distinctions irrelevant to most applications,
including editors? To my mind :stop is none of an editor's business.

Doug