You can easily add this to your ~/.juliarc.jl file and then it does happen,
no?


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Aerlinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Often when working on projects I find it's common to do certain
> initializations when Julia starts. This generally includes setting certain
> configurations, declaring environment variables, setting up connections etc
> before my code begins to run. Basically, something that looks like this:
>
> if isfile("some_initializer.jl")
>    # ...
> end
>
> Wouldn't it be more convenient to have a convention where Julia checks for
> the existence of a runtime configuration .juliarc.jl file in the working
> directory and executes it at startup if it exists? Other languages and
> interactive environments such as R (.Rprofile) have implemented this
> capability and can be very useful.
>
> It's not terribly difficult to implement, either. The following code
> recursively traverses up the directory structure calling any .juliarc.jl
> configuration files it encounters in reverse order:
>
> function loadrc(path::String)
>   if (path == ENV["HOME"] || path == "/")
>     return ""
>   end
>
>   loadrc(dirname(path))
>   juliarc = joinpath(path, ".juliarc.jl")
>
>   if isfile(juliarc)
>     println("Loading config file:", juliarc)
>     include(juliarc)
>   end
> end
>
> loadrc(pwd())
>
> Perhaps this should be done by default?
>

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