I’ve made some improvements to inferior-julia Julia REPL packaged with julia-mode and would like community feedback on whether pushing further in this direction is worthwhile. My hope is to have a good working Julia REPL out of the box with julia-mode so users don’t have to resort to things like emacs-jupyter, ess, or julia-repl.
I’d appreciate feedback from anyone who could try out the branch to decide whether its worthwhile to keep on working on this.
Sure. If inferior-julia doesn’t currently work on master, please open an issue on the julia-emacs repo with more detail. If it’s the updates in the linked branch, please comment there with more details.
Let me be clear. I am not testing this on Windows as I don’t use Windows. Supporting Windows should not be difficult, but I won’t know about problems unless you try inferior-julia and let me know what the issues are. comint-mode upon which inferior-julia and the ess variant are based should be more robust than julia-repl based on ansi-term, but I haven’t tested myself to confirm this.
That said, if julia-repl still isn’t working well on Windows, that’s a good thing to know as it’s a need inferior-julia might address better than existing solutions.
If the changes would bring inferior-julia closer to inferior-python I think that would be very helpful. I have been using julia-repl for a while but there are a couple of things that really bother me.