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If I use Gedit or Subl (sublime text) commands in the terminal to open a file, I can't do anything else in the terminal until I close the text editor. How can I fix this?

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Opening gedit in background should allow you to use the terminal

gedit &

Hope you know this .

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In that case & is unnecessary isn't it? – seriousdev Aug 23 '12 at 14:45
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@seriousdev to make it run in background you need & – devav2 Aug 23 '12 at 15:01
Well I thought you were implying that the user opens gedit first, my bad. – seriousdev Aug 23 '12 at 15:03
One issue... after issuing the command with &, it opens the text editor in the background. Then, I save the text and close the editor. Now if I enter another command in the same window, it will show something like this at the end : [1]+ Done subl a.txt – EApubs Aug 23 '12 at 16:59
Once a process is completed it will just throw a message on terminal saying Done – devav2 Aug 24 '12 at 17:16
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Use setsid, which runs a program in a new session; for example:

setsid gedit

Also you can close terminal and gedit will stay running.

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If you've started the editor already, you can send it to the background as if you had started it via

gedit &

in the first place:

Return to the blocked terminal, and press CTRL - Z. Notice that the terminal is now usable, but the program is now suspended.

Enter bg on that terminal to make it run again, and enjoy the unblocked terminal.

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Just adding different kind of approach:

You could also use a terminal that supports multiples tabs at once. Here are some examples: Gnome Terminal (the one that comes preinstalled on Ubuntu), Guake, Terminator, Tilda etc

Shortcut: CTRL + Shift + T = almost always the create new tab shortcut

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