[TUHS] foreground/background vs. Windowing

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM Harald Arnesen via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yea, I use both. It all depends on what I'm doing. But my brain is tainted
by emacs, so that could be the answer :) There have been no good gui
adaptations of emacs that make me want to use.

Warner