# Julia-snail in Emacs and multithreading

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-snail-in-emacs-and-multithreading/137761>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** multithreading, emacs\
**Created:** [June 23, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-snail-in-emacs-and-multithreading/137761 "2026-06-23T13:14:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![mahmah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mahmah/32/214326_2.png) [@mahmah](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mahmah)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-snail-in-emacs-and-multithreading/137761/1 "2026-06-23T13:14:02Z")

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How to set up julia-snail so that it launches julia as -t auto?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![mahmah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mahmah/32/214326_2.png) [@mahmah](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mahmah)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-snail-in-emacs-and-multithreading/137761/2 "2026-06-23T14:12:33Z")

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I found the solution; in init.el:

```julia-auto
(setq-default julia-snail-extra-args '("--threads=auto"))

```