[Discuss] Locating specific terminal windows by pty number?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I usuallyto have many terminal windows open at a time, with most windows
having multiple tabs.

Every once in a while I go to edit a file in nvi, only to discover it's
already locked by another instance of nvi.

I can find the other instance with "ps x | grep [n]vi", and find its pty id
(pty/34), but it would take an inordinate amount of time to dig through all
the open terminals and tabs to locate it.

Given the pty number and/or the process id, is there a way to quickly
locate the offending window and raise it to the foreground? Preferably from
the command line?



(I use nvi, rather than vim,because I learned vi back in 1983 on a BSD
machine, and nvi is a fork of the original vi code from BSD, so it's
compatible with a lifetime of muscle memory, whereas vim is both lacking in
obscure vi features that I use often, and contains unexpected features that
I occasionally trip over and don't know how to back out of)

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