Thank you!  And for that pointer to the doc string....

On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 9:55:52 AM UTC-4, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>
> 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> * 
>>>>
>>>>

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