From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4927 invoked from network); 18 Mar 1998 19:45:23 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Mar 1998 19:45:23 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07586; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:31:59 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:31:59 -0500 (EST) 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 Resent-Message-ID: <"jlOAP1.0.Ts1.k424r"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3803 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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