Note: This site is currently "Under construction". I'm migrating to a new version of my site building software. Lots of things are in a state of disrepair as a result (for example, footnote links aren't working). It's all part of the process of building in public. Most things should still be readable though.

Pause a long running process with ctrl z

You can pause a long running terminal process with

Code

CRTL + z

That will bring your prompt back up.

You can do your stuff, then un-pause the process with:

Code

fg

This works with vim/neovim