For some reason I don’t understand, I thought I might try out emacs again 16 years after I decided I hate it. I like using hot keys and shortcuts more now, so maybe that’s it. When I looked at the emacs page, I learned that there are different “flavors” (GNU emacs, Xemacs, etc.). What do folks use and is there really a noticeable difference? Does the julia emacs extension even work with other versions? Aside from the Julia extension, are there any others that make learning (especially!) or using emacs easier?

I use doom emacs with emacs 29.1.90 on macOS. Julia works well with the packages julia-ts-mode, julia-repl, and lsp-mode. This is based on the excellent work by @Ronis_BR , @Tamas_Papp and others. Please take a look at this repo for notes and a doom config which works well on macOS. This is a good emacs resource.

I’m also interested in seeing if people are using different things. I have been using the basic gnu/emacs with very few modifications for around 2 years and I still consider myself pretty awful at it but I prefer it to using bloated text editors. On Linux, by the way. Here’s my configuration block for julia files: (use-package julia-mode :ensure t :mode "\\.jl\\'" :interpreter ("julia" . julia-mode) :init (setenv "JULIA_NUM_THREADS" "8") :config (add-hook 'julia-mode-hook 'eglot-jl-init) (add-hook 'julia-mode-hook (lambda () (setq eglot-connect-timeout 120))) (add-hook 'julia-mode-hook (lambda () (setq eglot-autoshutdown t))) (add-hook 'julia-mode-hook 'julia-repl-mode) (add-hook 'julia-mode-hook 'company-mode) (add-hook 'julia-mode-hook #'yas-minor-mode) (add-hook 'julia-mode-hook (lambda () (setq julia-repl-set-terminal-backend 'vterm)))) I suspect it doesn’t work 100%. I am using eglot and eglot-jl as a language server but I only activate it manually (because it’s heavy) with the M-x eglot command.

[image] George9000: julia-ts-mode, This one is new to me. Any feedback about it?

[image] PetrKryslUCSD: Can’t get Emacs work with Julia on Windows. Bummer! ahhhh, that’s an interesting consideration… Most of the time I’m on Linux, but I do have to use Windows occasionally.

I used to use Emacs on Windows about 10 years ago. It wasn’t the most natural integration, but it was ok. But I haven’t touched a Windows system since then.

There is a recent discussion on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/195z9i8/emacs_support/

It’s worked well for syntax highlighting. See this post on Discourse, the relevant section here, and detailed looks here, here, and here.

Man, I need to be productive this week, but these new toys seem very tempting to try out…

Thanks for all the tips! I do work on Windows frequently, so I would have to make sure that emacs has decent Windows support first I guess.

It does not. The shell in which to run Julia does not cooperate. I could not get it to work. Could anyone?

When I paste more than 10 lines of code into the julia-repl shell, the screen flickers for a few seconds before the pasted text settles down. Is this a common problem people have seen?

Current emacs recommendations?

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Appears to be a common strategy:

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Emacs and Julia: how to Tooling emacs	67	7267	October 17, 2026
Feedback needed on improving Emacs inferior-julia Tooling repl , emacs	7	979	March 22, 2020
Emacs + lsp mode Tooling emacs	7	5531	August 6, 2021
Emacs with Julia on Windows Tooling emacs	19	3274	November 29, 2019
Emacs again Tooling	2	911	December 2, 2022

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