As one of the ESS developers, I will try and fix this with 0.4. From quick inspection, it looks like I can get the same help from the command line using:
----- julia> Base.Docs.@repl pwd search: pwd powermod print_with_color pwd() -> AbstractString Get the current working directory. ----- If that looks right, I'll try to add that. On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 2:33:29 PM UTC+1, Andrei Zh wrote: > > ESS mode's integration with Julia's REPL is quite simple and can't handle > special sequences. It's a pity that `help()` function has been removed from > 0.4, I didn't see it before your post. > > There was a discussion regarding better REPL (network REPL?) recently, but > AFAIK nobody is working on such solution yet. > > > On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 4:16:33 PM UTC+3, Michael Turok wrote: >> >> The issue is that ?Pkg.init isn't recognized either - is there some >> special REPL handling? >> >> julia> ?Pkg.init >> ERROR: UndefVarError: ? not defined >> >> >> julia> >> >> >> On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 9:11:54 AM UTC-4, Mauro wrote: >>> >>> Well, help is not a function in 0.4 anymore. Use ?Pkg.init >>> >>> Can't help with the other ESS things. I've tried it for a bit but it >>> introduced a noticeable lag so I switch back to just using julia-mode.el >>> >>> On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 14:32, Michael Turok <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Anyone here running julia under ESS in emacs? >>> > >>> > It seems that emacs's ess-mode for julia isn't quite as happy lately - >>> > especially with some changes in 0.4 (related to REPL changes, >>> possibly?). >>> > For example, help() doesn't do anything...perhaps b/c the REPL now >>> expects >>> > "?" to do something useful. >>> > >>> > Anyone have any suggestions? (Or am I moving to atom+hydrogen later >>> > today?) >>> > >>> > *Julia 0.3:* >>> > julia> help(Pkg.init) >>> > Base.Pkg.init(meta::String=DEFAULT_META, branch::String=META_BRANCH) >>> > >>> > >>> > Initialize "Pkg.dir()" as a package directory. This will be done >>> > automatically when the "JULIA_PKGDIR" is not set and >>> > "Pkg.dir()" uses its default value. As part of this process, >>> > clones a local METADATA git repository from the site and branch >>> > specified by its arguments, which are typically not provided. >>> > Explicit (non-default) arguments can be used to support a custom >>> > METADATA setup. >>> > >>> > >>> > julia> >>> > >>> > *Julia 0.4* >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > *julia> help(Pkg.init)ERROR: UndefVarError: help not definedjulia> * >>> >>>
