# Emacs Julia Ess with C-\` for next-error
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/emacs-julia-ess-with-c-for-next-error/10296
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/emacs-julia-ess-with-c-for-next-error/10296 "2018-04-12T05:28:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@iwelch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iwelch)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/emacs-julia-ess-with-c-for-next-error/10296/1 "2018-04-12T05:28:57Z")
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
```julia
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
```julia
[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](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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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/emacs-julia-ess-with-c-for-next-error/10296/2 "2018-04-12T08:09:47Z")
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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### Author:  [@iwelch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iwelch)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/emacs-julia-ess-with-c-for-next-error/10296/3 "2018-04-12T15:57:47Z")
yep, still same problem on 25.3. incidentally, nice package of macos with everything in it at
[https://vigou3.github.io/emacs-modified-macos/](https://vigou3.github.io/emacs-modified-macos/)
I think this is not necessarily an ess problem. see, a typical julia error is
```julia
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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### Author:  [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/emacs-julia-ess-with-c-for-next-error/10296/4 "2018-04-12T17:53:02Z")
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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### Author:  [@iwelch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iwelch)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/emacs-julia-ess-with-c-for-next-error/10296/5 "2018-04-13T00:40:00Z")
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.