There is this julia-org-babel repo:
https://github.com/gjkerns/ob-julia/blob/master/ob-julia-doc.org
But it didn't quite work for me. But maybe that was because of my
poor ESS setup. But I would certainly be interested in that
functionality.
On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 09:09, Tamas Papp <tkp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Regarding notebooks: I see the issue as orthogonal. I am using org-mode
> (with R) for notebook functionality in Emacs, and I guess Julia could
> support every feature just as easily via Babel. Are you using something
> else (in Emacs?)
>
> I don't think SLIME per se is the solution: even though people have
> tried to integrate SLIME with other languages (besides CL), most of
> those efforts were abandonned. I hope Julia gets its own SWANK-like
> backend that all frontends can then use.
>
> That said, now that I am using Julia more and more, I am gradually
> moving away from trying to manipulate an image in memory to having
> small, self-contained scripts that do simple things (load results,
> analyze, save results). So maybe the functionality of SLIME is not
> needed. I want develop the way I use Julia better before commiting a lot
> of time to such a project.
>
> Best,
>
> Tamas
>
> On Thu, Sep 17 2015, Cedric St-Jean <cedric.stj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
