Hi Steve, I'm guess that at least part of the problem is that OSX doesn't set environment variables nicely, making it hard for emacs to find things. Try installing https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell in emacs, restart, and see if that does the trick.
Best, Ista On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Steve Bellan <steve.bel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to get julia working via ESS in Aquamacs 3.0a. I managed > to get it running on one computer but can't seem to get it on another one > with very similar setups. The first thing I did was add this to my .emacs > > > (setq inferior-julia-program-name > "/Applications/Julia-0.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia") > > I also tried > > (setq inferior-julia-program-name > "/Applications/Julia-0.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia-basic") > > Also, in the instructions here it says to also have > (load "path/to/ESS/git/lisp/ess-site") > or > (require 'ess-site) > in .emacs. But both of these return the following error with the newer > versions of Aquamacs/Emacs. I assume this is because ESS is now pre-packaged > with emacs distributions but am not sure: > File error: Cannot open load file, no such file or directory, ess-site > ESS is working with R still on this computer, so it does seem to be loaded. > > With either the julia or julia-basic version above, M-x julia doesn't work > (emacs says [No match]). I then tried to start julia from a shell started in > the terminal. It didn't work because julia didn't seem to be in my path. So > I added julia to my PATH in .bash_profile and can stat it now by typing > 'julia' in shell now from the terminal. But if I start shell in Emacs, it > still doesn't work. I figured out that this was because shell in emacs > doesn't run .bash_profile automatically. So I added > > (setenv "PATH" (shell-command-to-string "source ~/.bash_profile; echo -n > $PATH")) > > to my .emacs. But then I get this error: > > > > bash-3.2$ julia > ERROR: could not start process `tput setaf 0`: no such file or directory > (ENOENT) > in test_success at process.jl:460 > in success at process.jl:468 > in _start at client.jl:417 > > > > > Process shell exited abnormally with code 1 > > I'm not very experienced with .emacs or .bash_profiles or PATH variables. So > any help would be much appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Steve > >