you could also just type '&' at the end of each command ;-) What i'd like instead, is based on the same issue/idea, which would be a real "linemode" where your

you could also just type '&' at the end of each command ;-) What i'd like instead, is based on the same issue/idea, which would be a real "linemode" where your prompt is "locally updated" and anything sent to "the shell" is asynchronous. This would not fork processes in the background (i want to be able to be selective on that obviously! so it would queue up processes if i dont specify '&' for example) but ensure that you can always get back to the prompt. This also makes it so that the prompt would be instant over the network as well. Note that some protocols do support linemode, just not SSH, or obviously not the native common shells either, at least, not without building a forked version