On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 3:36:08 AM UTC, Jason Bates wrote: > > Further, the issue appears to be exclusive to Julia; shell magic commands > within iPython still execute correctly. >
Just to be sure, do you mean iPython with Python? Or Jupyther a fork of it, that works with Julia (and python)? In case you are saying this or something, works better in [i]Python, then I would like feature parity, BUT: I support not using a shell, e.g. bash, as that would add to the footprint of Julia.. (and bash is getting old/outdated and see recent Shellshock security issue..). This advise may not be helpful..: >You can manually go through a shell via `cmd /C echo hello`, or better (slower to start but much more sane and useful) `powershell -Command "echo hello" As I REALLY like how Julia is cross-platform, and I hope people will not start hardcoding such in their code.. In case Windows variants, allow the Unix "shell magic commands" as aliases, it's regrettable that they can't be used, without adding platform-specific code.. Would clearly specified NON-CROSS-PLATFORM, shell() in addition to run() be helpful (should it run cmd or powershell on Windows?) as in some cases it's actually more portable..? Maybe in a package.. > > Thanks, > > Jason Bates >
