Send every process to background and disown, in zsh
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Send every process to background and disown, in zsh
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In zsh, I want to send every process to background so that I can continue typing in the terminal if a process takes longer than I expected. Instead of having to write & at the end of every command or having to do Ctrl + Z to freeze it and bg to send it to background. Also I want the process to continue if I close the terminal, so I want to disown it. Can this be done by default with some zsh setting?

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Heres a good response on SO: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223432/in-zsh-how-can-i-more-quickly-disown-the-foreground-process/223433#223433

Having a global keybind to disown the foreground process is impossible: Keystrokes are received by the foreground process, not by the shell. You need to first suspend it with Ctrl+z if you want to disown it.

However, turns out there’s a zsh option to speed up disowning then continuing: With setopt AUTO_CONTINUE, disown will automatically also send SIGCONT.

So you can get it down to C-z disown.

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Sounds like you want termux

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