Tamas,
I've hacked into SLIME/Swank before to support a DSL, and it wasn't too
horrible. I'd love to get SLIME support for Julia, but my workflow revolves
around notebooks these days, and I don't want to give those up. Do you see
any way of combining the two?
(thank you for your LLA library BTW!)
Cédric
On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 12:20:41 PM UTC-4, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>
> Its even simpler, of course... *@doc eig* gets you the documentation
> for eig. So, try editing ess/etc/ess-julia.jl so that your help definition
> is simply:
>
>
> function help(topic::String)
> eval(parse("@doc $topic"))
> end
>
> and start a new *julia* session.
>
> On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 4:34:21 PM UTC+1, Michael Turok wrote:
>>
>> Thank you! And for that pointer to the doc string....
>>
>> On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 9:55:52 AM UTC-4, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>>>
>>> As one of the ESS developers, I will try and fix this with 0.4. From
>>> quick inspection, it looks like I can get the same help from the command
>>> line using:
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> julia> Base.Docs.@repl pwd
>>>
>>> search: pwd powermod print_with_color
>>>
>>>
>>> pwd() -> AbstractString
>>>
>>>
>>> Get the current working directory.
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>>
>>> If that looks right, I'll try to add that.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 2:33:29 PM UTC+1, Andrei Zh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>>>> *
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
