# Julia-repl (Emacs) new release candidate - testers needed

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**Created:** [November 16, 2017, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-repl-emacs-new-release-candidate-testers-needed/7097 "2017-11-16T09:28:17Z")\
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I have tried many things. Apparently the Windows Emacs does not handle bash well. I keep getting the error

```julia
Spawning child process: invalid argument

```

Even starting a shell in Emacs and then trying to run Julia doesn’t work: the process cannot be communicated with.

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