Robert, Although it is still under development it looks like https://github.com/tknopp/Julietta.jl might be just what your looking for. At the very least you should keep an eye on it.
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 1:41:39 PM UTC-8, Robert wrote: > > Dear Mike, thanks a lot for your reply! I will study Juno again, in a > couple of days when I calmed down from my frustrating 2 weeks to get > started with Julia. I here would like to express to you my big THANK YOU! I > really appreciate your efforts in the Juno development, and with my (only) > two years of more serious programming experience (mainly MATLAB, some few > Python, some few C++) I am absolutely aware about the high quality of your > work. > My problem with Juno actually is a problem with the concept of the Light > Table user interface, and not with your Juno plugin: to me it appears that > you can only use LightTable effective, if you learned about a bunch of > shortcuts and are able to handle in your head the work you want to do so > much that you don't worry anymore about the tool (the editor) to be > configured to the one or the other appearance. Like it is also with using a > shell, a bash shell, or the windows command line. But if your brain (I > actually speak here about _my_ brain) is not as good in abstracting and > memorizing things, then a visual guidance helps a lot(!) to still get > complicated tasks done. This visual guidance is missing in LightTable, > subsequently is missing in Juno. It has a good reason that the graphical > user interface with mouse control has been developed, and especially that > it became such a success: click on a drop down menu to see what > possibilities are offered by the software, call it by a click, and by time > use the shortcut for that function, or rightclick somewhere for a context > menu and proceed alike. Tile a tab horizontally and keep visible some > example text i.e. in the upper part while typing far away in the file in > the lower part of the tiled tab. Write at a place which appears at a > certain position on your computer screen, and receive some ouptut always at > some other certain position at the screen, without the output affecting the > position on the screen where you would like to just go ahead with writing > something more. That is a perfectly foreseeable and and guiding behaviour, > and is what makes the other IDEs (Visual Study, Eclipse, Spyder) so > successful, if not speaking about their powerful engines to take work load > regarding house keeping the project and build process automation off from > the user. Well, Juno at LightTable is a powerful engine as well, but the > frontend of LightTable is - let´s say much different. I know that there are > also the emacs and the vim users, and LightTable might be an interesting > tool for those users. But there are also many people who are not so much in > favour with emacs or vim, using those editors only if no other option is > available, and the same people might then not be so much in favour with a > LightTable based IDE neither. Although the interactive engine of Juno is > impressive, I just couldn't get warm with the allover (almost) mouse-less > design of LightTable and the at the same time vast amount of vertical > scrolling needed. While I am absolutely aware about LightTable being an > extremely powerful tool for many programmers, I still would wish to find > enhanced Julia handling by a SPYDER or MATLAB alike IDE. Fortunately for > LightTable liking programmers you made Juno available, and I see that it is > some great work. Unfortunately nothing alike is available for SPYDER by > now. > O.K., I will take a break now for some days, and next week pick up again > the fight for setting up a for me comfortable Julia programming environment. >
