I'd like to get into the habit of suspending my editor instead of opening a new shell. Sometimes I forget that I have already started my editor and I'll have several processes running. With my setup, this could turn into a problem if I'm modifying files open in other processes.
I was thinking it would be nice to have a list of background jobs in my prompt, or maybe just some sort of indicator that I have a job suspended.
Even better, I could open a tmux pane and run the jobs command. However, I'd like this to be "persistent" like when tailing a log. Is there a way to keep jobs running in "watch mode"?
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is this what you're looking for?
I would rely with a tmux and maybe name tmux sessions with what you're working on in each of them
This is very easy when you come with unix tool called: tmux
On macos: brew install tmux
On ubuntu: apt-get install tmux
Usage:
New tmux session:
tmux new -s my-bg-task
Detach current session: ctrl+b d
Attach to detached session: tmux attach -t my-bg-task
If you launch everything with screen, you can suspend terminals and then recall them at any point. screen also has a list feature that shows you all the suspended screens.
linux.die.net/man/1/screen
tmux should also have some options but I can't speak to it for sure.
You can try first with byobu (byobu.co/) that is more or less a wrapper of screen with an easier learning curve and if you like it then try screen that usually it is already installed on most distros and therefore you can use it on almost any system.
You can add
\jto your bash prompt. It will show the number of background jobs. More on it hereYou can use
watchcommand like this:watch -n1 jobsJust split tmux screen and launch this command in one panel.