I usuallyto have many terminal windows open at a time, with most windows having multiple tabs.
Every once in a while I go to edit a file in nvi, only to discover it's already locked by another instance of nvi. I can find the other instance with "ps x | grep [n]vi", and find its pty id (pty/34), but it would take an inordinate amount of time to dig through all the open terminals and tabs to locate it. Given the pty number and/or the process id, is there a way to quickly locate the offending window and raise it to the foreground? Preferably from the command line? (I use nvi, rather than vim,because I learned vi back in 1983 on a BSD machine, and nvi is a fork of the original vi code from BSD, so it's compatible with a lifetime of muscle memory, whereas vim is both lacking in obscure vi features that I use often, and contains unexpected features that I occasionally trip over and don't know how to back out of) -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
