19 Jul
2025
19 Jul
'25
10:55 a.m.
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