Well, help is not a function in 0.4 anymore. Use ?Pkg.init Can't help with the other ESS things. I've tried it for a bit but it introduced a noticeable lag so I switch back to just using julia-mode.el
On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 14:32, Michael Turok <michael.tu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone here running julia under ESS in emacs? > > It seems that emacs's ess-mode for julia isn't quite as happy lately - > especially with some changes in 0.4 (related to REPL changes, possibly?). > For example, help() doesn't do anything...perhaps b/c the REPL now expects > "?" to do something useful. > > Anyone have any suggestions? (Or am I moving to atom+hydrogen later > today?) > > *Julia 0.3:* > julia> help(Pkg.init) > Base.Pkg.init(meta::String=DEFAULT_META, branch::String=META_BRANCH) > > > Initialize "Pkg.dir()" as a package directory. This will be done > automatically when the "JULIA_PKGDIR" is not set and > "Pkg.dir()" uses its default value. As part of this process, > clones a local METADATA git repository from the site and branch > specified by its arguments, which are typically not provided. > Explicit (non-default) arguments can be used to support a custom > METADATA setup. > > > julia> > > *Julia 0.4* > > > > > *julia> help(Pkg.init)ERROR: UndefVarError: help not definedjulia> *
