>>>>> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:03:08 -0700 (PDT), daniel matz said:
> It seems to work for me. What were you trying to set JULIA_EDITOR > to when you were trying emacs? Were you trying to use console emacs > with emacs -nw? > On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 7:46:21 AM UTC-5, Josef Sachs wrote: >> >> Is there a way that I can use edit() to start emacs in the >> foreground with support for line number? >> >> As a kludge, I am currently setting JULIA_EDITOR=mvim, and I have a >> mvim in my PATH that is a symbolic link to emacs. My EDITOR is set to emacs. I am connected to an Ubuntu system via ssh, with no X Window System. When I unset JULIA_EDITOR and run julia, julia> edit("Makefile") emacs: standard input is not a tty Maybe that's what you mean by "console emacs"? Are you running the X Window System? If so, then running emacs in the background would work.