Start Julia directly in shell> or pkg> mode?

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Hi! Is it possible to start a Julia REPL from the command line directly in shell> or pkg> mode without having to type ; or ], respectively, after the REPL loads? For example, something like:

$ julia
julia>
$ julia --shell-mode
shell>
$ julia --pkg-mode
pkg>

The reason I ask is because I would like to make the Julia shell> prompt my default terminal in vscode, but I sometimes encounter issues when extensions (e.g. C++ debugging) try to run commands from the default julia> terminal, e.g. julia> cmd /C "..." instead of shell> cmd /C "...".

Thanks!

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I think shell mode isn’t “sticky”, right? eg. if you enter REPL shell mode, execute something, it will exit shell mode. So I’m not sure how useful that would be.

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It is sticky in version 1.6.

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I’m not there yet!

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@tbeason ah yeah I should mention I’m using the 1.6.0 beta, so definitely sticky.

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Come join the Julia of the future, it’s great!

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