[Syssiphus]

Or just CTRL+z and then 'fg' to go back.

[pselbert]

This is one of the many things I learned from the destroyallsoftware screencasts [0] so many years ago. Before that I used vim in a gui (MacVim). Along with moving to tmux this completely changed how I work.

[0]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts

[TheGrassyKnoll]

That's what I do in Emacs. I always run it from a terminal (currently using Terminator).

[SEJeff]

This is exactly what I do all the time and works nicely.

[stirfrykitty]

Does that work in all shells?

[pfranz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_control_(Unix)

I haven't used many esoteric environments, but wikipedia says it "exists in most modern Unix shells" and the timeline for first adding it was the late 70s early 80s.

[mprovost]

Job control was first implemented in csh, another Bill Joy invention, although I believe that particular feature was added by someone else.