Re: (Buglet) job numbers do not get re-used (sometimes)
Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
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On Aug 15 2026, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 15:55:44 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> On Aug 15 2026, Stan Marsh wrote: >> >> > is that when you then create a new job, it may not get the lowest available job number. >> >> Why is that a problem? > > His workflow involves typing "fg %1" and expecting that to bring him > back to the specific job that he had as %1, which might now be %4. You can also refer to jobs by substring. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."