# Looking for advice on a guide I'm writing

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799>\
**Category:** Teaching & Outreach\
**Created:** [December 17, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799 "2022-12-17T23:40:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steven\_Kell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/steven_kell/32/45029_2.png) [@Steven\_Kell](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Kell)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799/1 "2022-12-17T23:40:54Z")

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Hello! So what’s up is that I am writing an overview of the REPL aimed at people who have never seen a command line before and would like to know what everyone thinks should be essential knowledge. I plan on covering modes, common commands such as those for scrolling through the history, how backspace and delete work, along with tab completion and customizing the REPL.

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**Author:** ![TheCedarPrince](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thecedarprince/32/17323_2.png) [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799/2 "2022-12-18T01:19:12Z")

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Paging the REPL master @miguelraz and the REPL artist @Ronis_BR ! 😄

Also, welcome to the community @Steven_Kell ! The two folks I pinged are experts with the Julia REPL and have a ton of resources they have created.

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**Author:** ![Steven\_Kell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/steven_kell/32/45029_2.png) [@Steven\_Kell](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Kell)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799/3 "2022-12-18T01:31:40Z")

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Thank you. I’ve been following Julia for years but finally decided to get serious about learning it recently after getting introduced to Logan thanks to PyData.

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**Author:** ![TheCedarPrince](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thecedarprince/32/17323_2.png) [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799/4 "2022-12-18T02:05:18Z")

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That’s awesome! I presented last year at PyData Global on [Javis.jl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvsc6ukdOc).

Also, here is a great video to look at for [REPL Mastery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLXEUt5KLc).

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**Author:** ![jd-foster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jd-foster/32/35824_2.png) [@jd-foster](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jd-foster)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799/5 "2022-12-18T09:17:02Z")

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I feel like knowing about [TerminalPager](https://ronisbr.github.io/TerminalPager.jl/dev/) is a good thing.

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**Author:** ![miguelraz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/miguelraz/32/631_2.png) [@miguelraz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/miguelraz)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-a-guide-im-writing/91799/6 "2022-12-30T20:04:33Z")

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@Steven_Kell I’m so glad you asked this question because it was _precisely_ that question which led me to make a 3 hour YouTube workshop for JuliaCon 2021 on Julia REPL Mastery (which Jacob already kindly mentioned).

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/2/324e67b7cd1cff62ec535d71cafcf7db1dbf5b5a.jpeg "Julia REPL Mastery Workshop | Miguel Raz Guzmán Macedo | JuliaCon 2022") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLXEUt5KLc)

I think I go over all those things you asked for and more.

I definitely need to find time to chop up all the lil’ nuggets into bite size 30 second videos, but that’s what the new year is for I guess.