julia-mode.el: Add the ability to start a REPL from inside Emacs

[Wilfred]

It need not be very sophisticated, and I'm not sure how we'll integrate the shell and help features, but basic functionality would be much better than nothing.

[PythonNut]

This is what I use

(add-hook 'julia-mode-hook
  '(lambda ()
     (require 'comint)

     (defun my-julia-compile ()
       "Use compile to run julia programs"
       (interactive)
       (compile (concat "julia -L " (buffer-file-name)) t))

     (setq compilation-scroll-output t)
     (global-set-key (kbd "<f5>") 'my-julia-compile)))

Can be pretty trivially modified into a REPL.

[dfannius]

I haven't tried julia-shell-mode yet, but it looks promising.

[PythonNut]

Hm... Perhaps it can be merged into the official emacs package?

[tkelman]

It's GPL and borrows code from the GPL Matlab-emacs, so not unless it were clean-room reimplemented or julia-mode moved to a separate repository.

[yuyichao]

Moved to JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs#1