[TUHS] foreground/background vs. Windowing

[Harald Arnesen via TUHS]

Clem Cole [2025-07-19 16:46:18]:

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM Douglas McIlroy 
> <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu <mailto:douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Haven't window systems madeforeground/background distinctions
>     irrelevant to most applications,including editors?
> 
> An interesting observation.  It's true that I have not used 
> ^Zor :stop,since I've had a window system.  I keep lots of terminal 
> windows open and switch back and forth.  One of the "features" of MacVIM 
> is that when I type: vito the command prompt, it's forked in its own 
> (separate) window from the terminal/shell window, so the desire/need of 
> something like ^Z for the editor that I used to need to do in my 
> 4.XBSD days are unnecessary.

I still like to use ^Z to suspend a running program, even when I use 
X11. That's really the reason I haven't changed my login shell to rc, 
because it lacks job control.
-- 
Hilsen Harald