I’m trying to set-up an (efficient) Emacs-based workflow to develop Julia code (on a linux system). Currently, here is what I’m using: I have a live Julia REPL in an ansi-term buffer, which uses Revise to update the Julia code as I edit source files. I’m currently using my own isend-mode package…

Ah. I believe I’m using melpa-stable’s lsp-mode , which is on commit 789b67 (the latest release), which dates to January of this year. I’ll try switching to regular melpa. EDIT: Also, I finally decided to commit to switching to Emacs about a month ago, so I’m still fairly new. I confess I don’t k…

If you are new to emacs and like vim keybindings I recommend spacemacs , it makes initial configuration so much easier and there is a julia layer which is pretty good. Base emacs is a pain to get configured from scratch.

I’m actually using the spacemacs layer, but I really can’t make it gives me completion apart from basic language reserved words (using, function, …) and my defined variables. It never gives me completions imported packages, nothing, nor if I try to use the defined function nor with using the dot syn…

you currently need julia 1.3 for it to work. lsp-julia currently only works with julia 1.3, there is a version that works with 1.4 but linting is broken.

Is julia 1.4 support going to work, at some point? I really can’t stand using Atom and Juno, but at the same time it would be annoying to be forced to keep using an older (and older and older…) version of Julia.

Anyway, I tried to switch to Julia 1.3 and I obtain the same behavior: the REPL shows true autocompletion while the buffer with the .jl file can complete only local variables and the basic words of the language (using etc). I could even workaround this if there is a way to send line from the REPL t…

For what I can see, there is no eglot layer for spacemacs. I tried to use it as a normale emacs package and to activate it with julia-mode but I got no completion at all.

Have you waited for the SymbolServer to index all your dependencies? This can take a very long time. You can see that it’s done when you see a message like the following in the *EGLOT (projectName/julia-mode) events* buffer: [stderr] [ Info: Received new data from Julia Symbol Server. Until then, …

Do I, in contrast with lsp-mode, have to use julia1.4 exclusively? Because I get an impressive amount of warnings for deprecated methods in the buffer you mention and then the init process fails

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ffevotte June 15, 2020, 7:40am 25

You could try using eglot instead. Look in particular for eglot-jl which makes it particularly easy to set things up.

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