# Nteract troubles

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nteract-troubles/54356>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** nteract\
**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nteract-troubles/54356 "2021-02-01T03:50:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![jebej](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jebej/32/1784_2.png) [@jebej](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jebej)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nteract-troubles/54356/1 "2021-02-01T03:50:08Z")

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I can use nteract, but the syntax highlighting is wrong, and autocompletion (ctrl-space) does not work at all. From seeing a few posts here it appears that these should work. Is any special configuration needed?

This is what things look like for me, with the latest nteract release (0.28):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/d/9d1a7e12c5f07c82976b7052d56a97ceb0856ebe.png)