[ESS-bugs] julia: TAB completion fails for emacs 23

[Stephen Eglen]

hi Martin,

I've yet to try the "new" julia within Emacs, but as I understand it,
they have dropped GNU readline (in julia-readline) for their own repl
coded in julia.  Does "julia" work okay in a regular *shell*?

Stephen

On Wed, May 14 2014, Martin Maechler wrote:

> I should add to this:
>
> Never versions of julia no longer provide a 'julia-basic' and
> 'julia-readline'  executable.
>
> Just 'julia' itself.
> and  'julia --help'  gives some options, e.g. "--color = yes|no"
> but does not talk about readline.
>
> So we (ESS) should probably change the default 
> inferior-julia-program-name from its default
> "julia-basic"  to "julia".
>
> I made it work by defining a symbolic link in my PATH of the form
>
>    ln -s <julia-source-build>/julia  julia-basic
>
> but that's not what the typical ESS user should have to do ...
>
> Do you guys have julia version which do *not* provide a simple
> 'julia' executable ?
>
>
> Martin
>
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