From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com [24.3.128.66]) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07550; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:31:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from luomat ([24.2.83.40]) by ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA4084; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:31:12 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:31:12 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: Timothy Luoma To: ZSH USers cc: ZSH Workers Subject: background jobs / feature request Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Say I have several background jobs which I can see with jobs -l which are either running in & mode or were control-Z'd into submission [1] 11381 running tail -1f /tmp/console.log [2] - 11839 suspended ls --ignore=.dir.tiff --ignore=.opendir.tiff --ignore=.dir3_0.wmd --classify | 11840 suspended less [3] + 11841 suspended find / -xdev -newer /etc/sendmail.cw -print [4] 11767 suspended /usr/local/bin/pine -p /Users/luomat/Unix/pine/pine.rc -sort arrival -f activ Now I want to get #2 back... is there any way that ZSH could be made to understand fg \[2\] or, better fg 11839 ? This would be much more convenient, especially in the case of pine where I have to type fg /usr/local/bin/pine TjL