Re: fg via keybind modifies tty settings

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/27/24 10:54 PM, David Moberg wrote:
> Yes, if seems like the way to do this in bash. It's unfortunate because 
> doing it with a binding is more elegant as it avoids polluting the terminal 
> output and shell history.

You don't have to put anything in the history you don't want to. If you
don't want to see `fg' and `bg' commands in the history, use
HISTIGNORE.

HISTIGNORE='[ ]*:&:fg:bg'

prevents commands beginning with spaces, repeated commands, and `fg' and
`bg' from being saved to the history list.

My terminal emulator doesn't end up showing the `fg' when I use it to
get back into the editor I've suspended, but your mileage may vary.


> In hindight: should the changes that were made to bash due to this 
> discussion, be reverted? The previous behavior was less annoying to me 
> (maybe because I was used to it)

No, I don't think saving readline's terminal settings for restoring later
is particularly useful.

Chet

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