Possible To Use iTerm Instead of Terminal on OS X to run Julia?

[Scotsman]

When I start Julia it comes up in Terminal on my iMac.

Is there a way to change Julia to use iTerm instead?

A beginner to Julia thanks you.

[jling]

Open Julia in iTerm2 by default, instead of Terminal

I installed Julia on macOS High Sierra (10.13.3) with brew cask install julia, and it opens in Apple Terminal by default. I am completely new to AppleScript, so I don’t know how to change the default behavior of Julia so that it opens in iTerm2 by default. (App ID - com.googlecode.iterm2). This is the script for starting Julia: set RootPath to POSIX path of (path to me) tell application id "com.apple.terminal" do script ("exec '" & RootPath & "Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia'") activate …

[pbayer]

I’d suggest you start Julia from iTerm instead of from the Finder or Spotlight. You need only a symbolic link to it (or you put it in your PATH variable). Start iTerm, then

➜  ~  which julia
julia not found
➜  ~  ln -s /Applications/Julia-1.5.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia /usr/local/bin/julia
➜  ~  which julia
/usr/local/bin/julia
➜  ~  julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.5.3 (2020-11-09)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia>

In the 2nd step you create the link (e.g. in /usr/local/bin) to your Julia application. You have to do this only once after a Julia installation. Then you can start julia system wide.