Emacs Julia Ess with C-` for next-error

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dear julia experts—I believe I am running the correct emacs ess for julia, on emacs 24.5.1, macOS. nice julia syntax highlighting and indenting.

alas, the c-x ` (next error) does not work. instead of going to the error, based on the compiler output, emacs requests from me below the modeline

Find this error in (default ./loading.jl): ~/pwd/

and even if I give the filename, it can still not find the right line. this suggests that emacs cannot parse the file and/or line number information contained in the julia error output

 [1] macro expansion at /Users/mei/pwd/sample.jl:26 [inlined]
...
while loading /Users/me/pwd/sample.jl, in expression starting on line 21

is there a way to fix this, or a way to output errors in the more common filename:linenum: format?

(and, how do I just compile but not run the program?)

I looked at https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/wiki/Julia , which suggests it should be working. is this perhaps a more specialized or newer version? (my ess came with my macos emacs version, I think.)

regards, /iaw

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I would try at least an Emacs 25.2, and the latest released ESS, and if that does not work, ask on the ESS mailing list.

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yep, still same problem on 25.3. incidentally, nice package of macos with everything in it at

https://vigou3.github.io/emacs-modified-macos/

I think this is not necessarily an ess problem. see, a typical julia error is

ERROR: LoadError: syntax: "blahblah" is not a valid function argument name

Stacktrace:
 [1] include_from_node1(::String) at ./loading.jl:576
 [2] include(::String) at ./sysimg.jl:14
 [3] process_options(::Base.JLOptions) at ./client.jl:305
 [4] _start() at ./client.jl:371
while loading /Users/me/pwd/file.jl, in expression starting on line 2

what happens is that emacs-ess wants to go to loading.jl:576 first, rather than to pwd/file.jl . are you not getting the same?

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I can’t help with ESS but I’ll say that I use emacs with julia-mode and julia-repl and that works great for me. Is there a reason you need to use ESS?

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uhmm…no. I had thought that ess[julia] was julia mode. apparently, it is not. when I do M-x julia-mode, it works. thanks, mason.

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