Weird "jobs" behavior within zsh

Question

I am getting weird behavior with the jobs, fg and bg commands in my zsh shell. Here is an example (this happens for all commands, not just python):

$ python & [1] 21214 Python 2.7.8 (default, Oct 19 2014, 16:02:00) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.54)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. [1]  + 21214 suspended (tty output)  python $ jobs [1]  + suspended (tty output)  python $ fg 1 fg: job not found: 1 $ bg 1 bg: job not found: 1 

I am using the standard oh-my-zsh installation on OS X.

Answer 1

You may be used to fg N (where N is a job number) working in Bash. But it’s a little different in Zsh, requiring a %; e.g., fg %1. The Bash behavior is convenient, so you can make Zsh do the same:

fg() {     if [[ $# -eq 1 && $1 = - ]]; then         builtin fg %-     else         builtin fg %"$@"     fi } 

The same can be done for bg and history. This was originally from this thread.

You can also just type fg and the %1 is implied. Tab-completion is great for this too when you have a few jobs going: fg<tab>