Suspending an interactive job: Zsh vs Bash differences

Suspending an interactive job: Zsh vs Bash differences

[Robert McLay]

I am a recent convert from bash to zsh and am very happy with just about every 
thing in zsh.  There is a difference in Zsh that I miss from my bash days.

It is in suspending a job.  Under bash (currently: version 3.2.25(1)-release) 
when I suspend an interactive program I get:

    bash$ emacs            # typed ^Z

    [1]+  Stopped                 emacs

Under Zsh I get:

    zsh% emacs               # typed ^Z
   
    zsh: suspended  emacs

So namely I'm missing the job number.  It is correctly reported by jobs:

    zsh% jobs
    [1]  + suspended  emacs

What I would like is the job number reported when the interactive program 
is '^Z'.   I have aliased 'kill1'  to be "kill -9 %1' and 'kill2' to 
be "kill -9 %2' and so on.  This way I could (under bash)  '^Z' a program and 
type 'kill#'  where '#' is the job number.  I don't care how the job number 
is included so as a guess,  I'd merge the 'jobs' output with '^Z' like this:

    zsh:   [#]  +/- suspended  job_name


Where [#]  is  the job number and the +/-  marks just like 'jobs' does.  So
    zsh% emacs               # typed ^Z
   
    zsh: [1] + suspended emacs

would be something like what I'm looking for.   

Is this an easy or difficult change?  Maybe there is a way to modify what '^Z' 
is bound to?

Thanks,
R.

Re: Suspending an interactive job: Zsh vs Bash differences

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 11), Robert McLay said:
> I am a recent convert from bash to zsh and am very happy with just
> about every thing in zsh.  There is a difference in Zsh that I miss
> from my bash days.
> 
> It is in suspending a job.  Under bash (currently: version
> 3.2.25(1)-release) when I suspend an interactive program I get:
> 
>     bash$ emacs            # typed ^Z
> 
>     [1]+  Stopped                 emacs
> 
> Under Zsh I get:
> 
>     zsh% emacs               # typed ^Z
>    
>     zsh: suspended  emacs
> 
> So namely I'm missing the job number.  It is correctly reported by jobs:
> 
>     zsh% jobs
>     [1]  + suspended  emacs

Try setting the longlistjobs option, which gives you the job number
plus the pid as a bonus:

dan% sleep 10
^Z
zsh: suspended  sleep 10
dan% kill %1
[1]  + terminated  sleep 10
dan% setopt longlistjobs
dan% sleep 10
^Z
[1]  + 49470 suspended  sleep 10

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

Re: Suspending an interactive job: Zsh vs Bash differences

[Peter Stephenson]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:37:07 -0600
Robert McLay <mclay@zaniahgroup.com> wrote:
> Under Zsh I get:
> 
>     zsh% emacs               # typed ^Z
>    
>     zsh: suspended  emacs
> 
> So namely I'm missing the job number.

You just need to "setopt longlistjobs".  I'm not sure why it's not the
default.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/

Re: Suspending an interactive job: Zsh vs Bash differences

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jan 11,  9:06pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} You just need to "setopt longlistjobs".  I'm not sure why it's not the
} default.

Because most of the interactive defaults are intended to make zsh more
like (t)csh and less like anything /bin/sh-ish.

Or at least that's true of the options that have been around for 20+ years.
Newer options might not fit that description.

Re: Suspending an interactive job: Zsh vs Bash differences

[Richard Hartmann]

Resend as I fail to send mail to lists that do not munge reply-to.

On Jan 11, 2008 10:06 PM, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> You just need to "setopt longlistjobs".  I'm not sure why it's not the
> default.

Defaulting to this would sense, imo.


Richard