# Tooling

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## [Security in Julia Packages](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/security-in-julia-packages/92883)

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**Author:** [@Jon\_Marcum](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jon_Marcum)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/security-in-julia-packages/92883 "2023-01-12T17:18:36Z")

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How does Julia insure that packages are not compromised by bad actors? Case in point an article that I read stated that pypi contained 50% of its packages with security vulnerabilities ( About half of Python libraries in…

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## [PageBreak when exporting a Pluto notebook to PDF](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pagebreak-when-exporting-a-pluto-notebook-to-pdf/92281)

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**Author:** [@lgmendes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lgmendes)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pagebreak-when-exporting-a-pluto-notebook-to-pdf/92281 "2023-01-12T09:56:22Z")

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Is it possible to add a page break in a particular position of a Pluto notebook when exporting to PDF?

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## [VSCode handling of unicode automatic completion](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-handling-of-unicode-automatic-completion/92610)

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**Author:** [@lrnv](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lrnv)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [January 9, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-handling-of-unicode-automatic-completion/92610 "2023-01-09T09:08:16Z")

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Hey, I find that the behavior in VSCode for the handling of unicode completion surprising. In the folloiwng examples, I will denote the position of the cursor when i hit the tab key (for autocompletion) \<TAB\> : myfun…

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## [Trying to add YahooFinance.jl and pkg asks for my username and password](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trying-to-add-yahoofinance-jl-and-pkg-asks-for-my-username-and-password/91814)

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**Author:** [@austin-putz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/austin-putz)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [January 8, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trying-to-add-yahoofinance-jl-and-pkg-asks-for-my-username-and-password/91814 "2023-01-08T16:58:53Z")

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Hello all, I’m trying to install YahooFinance to download financial data. Problem is when I try to add or clone the github repository I get a message to enter my user name and password. When I enter them, it just keeps …

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## [VS Code linter options?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-linter-options/92333)

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**Author:** [@Eben60](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eben60)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-linter-options/92333 "2023-01-07T10:31:40Z")

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According to the Linter · Julia in VS Code documentation You can … configure it via various options with the julia.lint. prefix. However if I select it (View → Command Palette → insert julia.lint. ) I do not see any …

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## [Manage Python packages to use in Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/manage-python-packages-to-use-in-julia/92584)

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**Author:** [@EmanuelCastanho](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/EmanuelCastanho)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/manage-python-packages-to-use-in-julia/92584 "2023-01-06T00:19:30Z")

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I am using Python packages in Julia that need to be installed with Conda.jl. I want those packages to be organised on an isolated environment (not root) to prevent conflicts. The goal is to use PyCall.jl. It says on th…

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## [Why do I get this error in JET.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-do-i-get-this-error-in-jet-jl/92565)

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**Author:** [@Impressium](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Impressium)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-do-i-get-this-error-in-jet-jl/92565 "2023-01-06T11:28:48Z")

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Hi all :slight\_smile: I’m using that awesome tool JET. It works well, but I get the following error - don’t understand why julia\> JET.@report\_call Dict{String, String}(string(k) =\> v for (k,v) in enumerate(\["1", "2"\]))…

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## [Jupyter julia notebook on Amazon AWS SageMaker](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-julia-notebook-on-amazon-aws-sagemaker/75904)

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**Author:** [@wub7quxa](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/wub7quxa)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 5, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-julia-notebook-on-amazon-aws-sagemaker/75904 "2023-01-05T11:23:03Z")

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I want to run a Jupyter notebook in Amazon SageMaker with a Julia kernel. There is very little documentation about this. There is this: I followed all the instructions, and Julia shows up in the JupyterLab launcher; b…

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## [StaticLint without VSCode](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/staticlint-without-vscode/92517)

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**Author:** [@stephenll](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stephenll)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/staticlint-without-vscode/92517 "2023-01-04T18:57:45Z")

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Is there a way to run the StaticLint without running VSCode? I’m looking for a way to run in the REPL. I’ve tried the following but get an error about LibSSH2\_jll, MbedTLS\_jll, and Zlib\_jll not stored on disc. # First…

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## [Fail to precompile Plots.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-precompile-plots-jl/92422)

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**Author:** [@fdekerme](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fdekerme)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-precompile-plots-jl/92422 "2023-01-02T22:00:00Z")

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Hello ! :grin: I can’t use Plots anymore. An error appears during the precompilation indicating that it misses libraries, but these last ones are however well present in C:\\Users\\xxx.julia\\packages. I couldn’t say exact…

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## [Language server crash when using filter option In range for table view](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/language-server-crash-when-using-filter-option-in-range-for-table-view/92408)

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**Author:** [@rocco\_sprmnt21](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rocco_sprmnt21)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/language-server-crash-when-using-filter-option-in-range-for-table-view/92408 "2023-01-02T10:14:34Z")

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using DataFrames rows = 1000000 stock\_day = DataFrame(stock = repeat(\[:A,:b\], Int(rows/2)), day = sort(repeat(collect(1:Int(rows/2)),2)), price = rand(rows) )

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## [Idea for better methods / dispatch visualization](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/idea-for-better-methods-dispatch-visualization/92282)

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**Author:** [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/idea-for-better-methods-dispatch-visualization/92282 "2023-01-02T03:48:49Z")

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I was wondering if anybody has thought about this before. Sometimes it can be hard to keep track of what methods are available for a given function and how they’re hierarchically organized. For example, the + function ha…

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## [What to do when Pluto fails to compile packages?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-when-pluto-fails-to-compile-packages/92347)

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**Author:** [@Hugo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Hugo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 1, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-when-pluto-fails-to-compile-packages/92347 "2023-01-01T20:41:54Z")

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I am trying to run the cells in a Pluto file. Pluto automatically runs all the cells in the file, but it fails in the first cell when the packages are being loaded. Here’s what the error message looks like All I und…

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## [Github actions cache not working](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-actions-cache-not-working/92341)

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**Author:** [@zStupan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zStupan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-actions-cache-not-working/92341 "2022-12-31T05:19:29Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to make a simple test workflow for my project using github actions: name: CI on: pull\_request: branches: - main push: branches: - main tags: \["\*"\] jobs: test: name: Juli…

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## [Pluto：Failed to show value](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-failed-to-show-value/92231)

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**Author:** [@Wuyao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Wuyao)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-failed-to-show-value/92231 "2022-12-28T15:20:10Z")

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Hi,I am on a Windows 10 machine,Julia 1.8.3,Pluto 0.19.19. when using Symbolics to take the derivative of a vector variables in Pluto,I saw the following message: Failed to show value: MethodError: no method matching …

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## [Documenter devbranch build not deploying](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documenter-devbranch-build-not-deploying/92020)

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**Author:** [@miles](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/miles)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documenter-devbranch-build-not-deploying/92020 "2022-12-28T03:20:32Z")

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Our GitHub actions for building our Documenter docs recently started misbehaving. One issue is that when I manually run out GitHub Documentation action, it doesn’t update the “dev” version of our docs. Here is the error…

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## [JupyterLab vs PlotlyJS](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyterlab-vs-plotlyjs/92173)

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**Author:** [@rmfritz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rmfritz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 27, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyterlab-vs-plotlyjs/92173 "2022-12-27T00:14:46Z")

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The following example works fine in the julia REPL, but only produces an empty cell in IJulia under JupyterLab. I’ve done a couple of installs I found on the net, and none of them worked. Any ideas about what to try? us…

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## [Error occured after the first precompilation on some packages after upadting to Julia 1.8.4](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-occured-after-the-first-precompilation-on-some-packages-after-upadting-to-julia-1-8-4/92138)

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**Author:** [@Shayan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Shayan)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [December 26, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-occured-after-the-first-precompilation-on-some-packages-after-upadting-to-julia-1-8-4/92138 "2022-12-26T14:32:04Z")

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I updated Julia using the Juliaup and now I can’t precompile some packages. Does this happen to everyone? julia\> using Plots \[ Info: Precompiling Plots \[91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80\] I break the error into seve…

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## [Using IJulia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-ijulia/91962)

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**Author:** [@FH96](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/FH96)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 22, 2022, 6:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-ijulia/91962 "2022-12-22T06:21:32Z")

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Hi everyone! I am new to Jupyter notebook. I installed IJulia and tried to run notebook(), I face this : “install Jupyter via Conda, y/n? \[y\]:” I waited for a while, like 30 minutes, but julia keeps evaluating and no…

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## [Using a particular environment with Pluto](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-a-particular-environment-with-pluto/91967)

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**Author:** [@lgmendes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lgmendes)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 21, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-a-particular-environment-with-pluto/91967 "2022-12-21T17:04:08Z")

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It is possible to use a particular environment in a Pluto notebook? i.e., using a package already installed in a particular environment? In the VScode terminal, even when I start Pluto within a particular environment I …

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## [How to show docstring-based documentation in IJulia notebooks?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-show-docstring-based-documentation-in-ijulia-notebooks/40814)

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**Author:** [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 20, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-show-docstring-based-documentation-in-ijulia-notebooks/40814 "2022-12-20T23:14:54Z")

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If I type ?\[Function\] in a jupyter notebook with a IJulia kernel, I can see IJulia searches for the documentation and it “finds” it, but it doesn’t show it :-/ : Julia 1.4.1, IJulia 1.21.2

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## [Problem with module dependencies in Pluto](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-with-module-dependencies-in-pluto/91882)

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**Author:** [@adannenberg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/adannenberg)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [December 20, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-with-module-dependencies-in-pluto/91882 "2022-12-20T19:01:08Z")

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I created a module, myModule, that requires the Dates and DataFrames packages. Fwiw, my src directory contains only myModule.jl which looks like: module myModule using DataFrames, Dates export myDF function my…

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## [Using the Intel VTune Profiler with julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-the-intel-vtune-profiler-with-julia/34327)

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**Author:** [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Replies:** 27\
**Last updated:** [December 19, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-the-intel-vtune-profiler-with-julia/34327 "2022-12-19T21:14:43Z")

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Hi all, I’m trying to profile the following piece of Julia code, taken from ProfileView.jl, using the external Intel VTune Profiler. Concretely, the code is # vtune.jl function profile\_test(n) for i = 1:n A…

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## [Subscripts and superscripts in VS Code | Windows 11](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/subscripts-and-superscripts-in-vs-code-windows-11/91834)

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**Author:** [@Audrius-St](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Audrius-St)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 19, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/subscripts-and-superscripts-in-vs-code-windows-11/91834 "2022-12-19T07:51:35Z")

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Hello, I am wondering if my setup is missing subscripts / superscripts. For example, I would expect \_y and \_z to be available, but this does not seem to be the case. OS: Windows 11; UTF-8 enabled Running VS Code Ve…

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## [VSCode debugging super slow and then crashes](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-debugging-super-slow-and-then-crashes/48144)

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**Author:** [@Ross\_Boylan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ross_Boylan)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [December 19, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-debugging-super-slow-and-then-crashes/48144 "2022-12-19T07:04:04Z")

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I’ve been using the debugger with some success in VSCode, but today it was incredibly slow. Like 30 seconds to 2 minutes to step from one line to the next, even when the lines in question didn’t seem to be doing much, e…

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## [How to combine PlutoUI widgets into new widgets?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-combine-plutoui-widgets-into-new-widgets/91809)

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**Author:** [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 18, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-combine-plutoui-widgets-into-new-widgets/91809 "2022-12-18T11:52:19Z")

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I came across this tutorial, but it seems that the code is no longer working in the latest stable version of Pluto/PlutoUI: https://julialang.zulipchat.com/user\_uploads/7178/aOlGtPBiSsdksGKrLJsi4aHf/PlutoUI-composition.…

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## [TableView/Blink alternatives](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tableview-blink-alternatives/90232)

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**Author:** [@Paul\_Soderlind](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Paul_Soderlind)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [December 15, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tableview-blink-alternatives/90232 "2022-12-15T10:16:00Z")

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Is there a good alternative to the TableView/Blink combination? I used to pretty-print tables with w = Blink.Window() body!(w,showtable(tab,height = "100vh")) But it seems that the manifest of Blink has not been updat…

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## [Snail: how to copy from the vterm buffer](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/snail-how-to-copy-from-the-vterm-buffer/91573)

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**Author:** [@PeterSimon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PeterSimon)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 13, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/snail-how-to-copy-from-the-vterm-buffer/91573 "2022-12-13T03:27:37Z")

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When using Snail in emacs, how does one copy a portion of the vterm (Julia session) buffer? All the normal emacs keys are disabled in the buffer running the Julia REPL, so I can’t figure out how to invoke, say, vterm-co…

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## [Erroneous Unused Binding Errors](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/erroneous-unused-binding-errors/91324)

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**Author:** [@jrbaxter0](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jrbaxter0)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 12, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/erroneous-unused-binding-errors/91324 "2022-12-12T02:17:45Z")

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The linter is reporting Variable has been assigned but not used.Julia(UnusedBinding) for nearly every variable inside a function. Here’s an example: normal is very clearly used on the following line. I assume this is …

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## [Dev version of Documenter.jl on GitHub Actions](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dev-version-of-documenter-jl-on-github-actions/91498)

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**Author:** [@tfiers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tfiers)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 10, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dev-version-of-documenter-jl-on-github-actions/91498 "2022-12-10T18:40:20Z")

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I installed an unreleased version of Documenter in a package’s docs/Project.toml (docs/Manifest.toml is committed). Local docs build works. But, on github, julia-actions/julia-docdeploy gives: ERROR: expected package …

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