19 Jul
2025
19 Jul
'25
4:42 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM Harald Arnesen via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
Clem Cole [2025-07-19 16:46:18]:
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
On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu <mailto:douglas.mcilroy@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.