Sometimes when I’m running a process in the foreground (most commonly, vim). I unintentionally press Ctrl + z and I get a message like this:
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[1]+ Stopped vim
There might be reasons why you want to do this if you are running in a system that gives you a single terminal, but when running a UI where you can have multiple terminal tabs open, this usually happens by mistake. But no reason to panic, if you want to go back you just have to type this command:
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fg
As a matter of fact, you can have different jobs running on the background:
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jobs
[1] Stopped vim
[2]- Stopped vim
[3]+ Stopped less Makefile
And reopen them using fg %n. For example:
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fg %2
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