[TUHS] Re: xvi

Marshall Conover wrote in <CAK0pxsFBAd6BdpZ9d3KTuPQS_JwUdhKtniSLXzFVUD3kQD5b5w(a)mail.gmail.com>: |In my experience, for the sake of mental organization and not sending the |wrong command to the wrong place, there's a case to be made for |"namespacing" all activity around a certain task/environment in a singular |shell, which makes job handling with fore- and backgrounding relevant. For |example, I'll be iterating on a script targeting a new deployment |environment that requires certain env vars and a history of related |commands, then running it to see if it works, and reflexively I'm more |likely to open & edit the script, then ctrl+z the editor and run the script |than to open the editor in a separate window in my experience. That said, I |certainly have sometimes thought "you know, you could just edit the script |in another window." | |I did only just learn about ":stop" with this message, though. For me, the |surprising thing is implementing in vim what users can do by hitting ctrl+z |(and which I do daily in vim with ctrl+z). Even before getting to the |window system, the shell's already got this covered by giving you the |ability to background the application: why add lines of code to your |application to do it again? But perhaps there is a scripting utility to |having it within vim itself. You may have the desire to strip termios/ISIG at times due to whatever reasons (raw input mode), but still want the functionality to happen upon a certain (configurable) keypress. If you then have the function, why not also offer it to users. (Having said that, the MUA i maintain, for example, has ‘\cZ’ raise(3)∞ ‘SIGTSTP’ (mle-raise-tstp). which then does exactly that, after restoring normal termios; but that is just how it came.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |During summer's humble, here's David Leonard's grumble | |The black bear, The black bear, |blithely holds his own holds himself at leisure |beating it, up and down tossing over his ups and downs with pleasure | |Farewell, dear collar bear