# Activate project in Juno/Atom

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activate-project-in-juno-atom/22589>\
**Category:** Juno\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activate-project-in-juno-atom/22589 "2019-04-01T09:17:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activate-project-in-juno-atom/22589/1 "2019-04-01T09:17:27Z")

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Is there a command/shortcut in Juno that

1. looks for a `Project.toml` in a parent directory,
2. if found, activates the corresponding project?

Eg like [this](https://github.com/tpapp/julia-repl/blob/54b4aa31d96e6945d07304dcb189289e2f8be1b4/julia-repl.el#L527) in `julia-repl`.

_(I have a coauthor I want to convince to use projects (manifest! manifest!) who uses Juno, and wondering how to make it easy.)_

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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activate-project-in-juno-atom/22589/2 "2019-04-01T11:57:28Z")

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No, I don’t think we have that yet.  
One thing that comes close is that you can add `--project=.` to the “Additional Startup Arguments” – after that the first project in Atoms project list will be automatically active in Julia (same as calling `pkg> activate .`, really, but more convenient).

Related issue:

> <https://github.com/JunoLab/Juno.jl/issues/206>
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> Would be really cool to have a clickable way to set the current project.
> This c…ould be done like:
> 
> 1. Exactly like one selects current module at the moment.
> 2. Like one adds a project folder in Atom, where a window explorer opens.
> 3. Automatically or with some user defined automatic way. ...?