ESS/Julia Crashes Aquamacs

[cortner]

I am running OS X 10.9.4, Julia v0.3.

I installed the latest Aquamacs, deleted the ESS that comes with it and installed the Git development branch. My Preferences.el contains

   (add-to-list 'load-path "~/Dropbox/Admin/Aquamacs/ESS/lisp/")
   (load "ess-site")

Julia is already in the path; the version of ESS installed is 14.08.

When I start julia with M-x julia RET, a Julia console opens in the Terminal (not in Emacs - is that correct?), and Aquamacs becomes unresponsive to any input. I have to kill it.

The same happens with Vincent Goulet's version of Emacs from
http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/mac/.

Thank you for any pointers.

[vspinu]

When I start julia with [M-x julia RET], a Julia console opens in the Terminal (not in Emacs - is that correct?), and Aquamacs becomes unresponsive to any input. I have to kill it.

That's not correct. It should open in the Emacs buffer. I think it might be julia thing.

Try M-x shell and then julia in it and see if you get the same behavior. If so, update your julia, check again and then straight to julia bug report.

[cortner]

When I start julia with [M-x julia RET], a Julia console opens in the Terminal (not in Emacs - is that correct?), and Aquamacs becomes unresponsive to any input. I have to kill it.

That's not correct. It should open in the Emacs buffer. I think it might be julia thing.

Try M-x shell and then julia in it and see if you get the same behavior. If so, update your julia, check again and then straight to julia bug report.

I tried this, using Current Release v0.3.0, and get the message

bash-3.2$ julia
2014-08-31 18:44:51.806 julia[3902:507] App did finish launching

Julia again starts in a separate Terminal, but this time Emacs does not freeze. I will post this on the Julia list.

[juliangehring]

I can confirm what @cortner has been describing on a linux machine with julia 0.3.0, emacs 24.3.1, and ESS 14.08. The same setup works fine with julia 0.2.

Here the 'ess-buffer' output, after killing the ESS process:

[ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil                                                                                                            
(S): ess-s-versions-create making M-x defuns for                                                                                                      

(R): ess-r-versions-create making M-x defuns for                                                                                                      
 R-devel.sh                                                                                                                                           
 R-devel                                                                                                                                              

(julia): ess-dialect=nil, buf=*scratch*, start-arg=nil                                                                                                
 current-prefix-arg=nil                                                                                                                               
(inf-ess 1): lang=nil, dialect=nil, tmp-dialect=julia, buf=*scratch*                                                                                  
(inf-ess 1.1): procname=julia temp-dialect=julia, buf-name=*julia*                                                                                    
(inferior-ess) Method #3 start=~/ buf=*julia*                                                                                                         
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=julia, dialect=julia, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send                                  
(inf-ess 2.1): ess-language=julia, ess-dialect=julia buf=*julia*                                                                                      
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=julia, dialect=julia, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender                           
(i-ess 1): buf=*julia*, lang=julia, comint..echo=nil, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender,                                                       
(i-ess end): buf=*julia*, lang=julia, comint..echo=nil, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender,                                                     
(inferior-ess (post inf-ess): start-args= , comint-echoes=nil                                                                                         
Making Process...Buf *julia*, :Proc julia, :Prog julia                                                                                                
 :Args=                                                                                                                                               
Start File=nil                                                                                                                                        
(inferior-ess: waiting for process to start (before hook)

[cortner]

Does anybody have an idea yet how to fix this issue?

[cortner]

In my, case the problem was that I used /Applications/Julia-0.X.X.app/Contents/MacOS/Julia instead of /Applications/Julia-0.X.X.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia. The first is an "app" that launches Julia in a separate terminal. The latter is the one that can be called from command-line. I now got ESS-Julia to work in both Aquamacs and standard Emacs.

From my point of view, this can be closed.

[justmytwospence]

When I follow the wiki instructions, my minibuffer displays

Type C-h for hep on ESS version 15.09-devel

and then the whole Emacs application freezes up, and I have to force quit.
I'm using the brew cask install julia version of julia.