I no longer use Atom or VSCode. My current workflow is to send codes on a Julia script to an open Julia REPL. I want to set the current folder to be my working directory. Using cd(dirname(@__FILE__)) in this manner does not work. What should I do?

[image] The macrocall @__FILE__ does not return the directory of the file, but rather the REPL output number New to Julia I have been using to following to change my working directory to the location of my .jl scripts in Atom as follows without problems: cd(dirname(@__FIL…

I am aware of this, that’s why I am asking if there is an alternative solution. I prefer to make my code portable.

does pwd() or @__DIR__ not work for you?

I re-read your question. You’re sending code of a script lying somewhere (in a copy-paste manner) to an REPL session. This is like copying a snippet of text from some random file and pasting into REPL and expect REPL to know which file you copied the code from. In this case, there’s no easy way a…

I am using RStudio. I think you are right. The Julia REPL has no way to know where the pasted codes come from.

Use @FILE in pasted code in REPL

General Usage

jling February 23, 2021, 6:57am 2

first result if you search “FILE macro REPL”. Please search before posting, especially that was very much recently asked.

Topic		Replies	Views
The macrocall @__FILE__ does not return the directory of the file, but rather the REPL output number New to Julia	8	1880	October 10, 2021
Julia Source Code Directory New to Julia	4	674	July 19, 2021
Full path to file Tooling vscode	10	1380	June 22, 2021
Should @__DIR__ give a path to the directory of the current file? General Usage question	7	3053	November 12, 2021
Current directory @__DIR__ General Usage	1	363	May 8, 2023

Use @__FILE__ in pasted code in REPL

Related topics

Use @FILE in pasted code in REPL