[TUHS] foreground/background vs. Windowing

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 5:04 PM Noel Hunt <noel.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > I still like to use ^Z to suspend a running program, even when I use
> > X11.
>
> Since it would appear that that is totally unnecessary in a
> window system, as Doug pointed out, one has to ask why?
>

To put the job in the background. I don't understand why you'd want to
start a whole new window that has a new history. I hit ^Z in emacs to build
or run tests... New sessions start fast enough, but shell history gets
weird.

Also, there are no GUI emacs versions I like..

Warner

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