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> >>>>>>>> * >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>