ESS mode's integration with Julia's REPL is quite simple and can't handle special sequences. It's a pity that `help()` function has been removed from 0.4, I didn't see it before your post.
There was a discussion regarding better REPL (network REPL?) recently, but AFAIK nobody is working on such solution yet. On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 4:16:33 PM UTC+3, Michael Turok wrote: > > The issue is that ?Pkg.init isn't recognized either - is there some > special REPL handling? > > julia> ?Pkg.init > ERROR: UndefVarError: ? not defined > > > julia> > > > On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 9:11:54 AM UTC-4, Mauro wrote: >> >> 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 <michae...@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> * >> >>
