What does it say when you run Base.REPL.find_hist_file()
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 6:31:58 PM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: > > I've uninstalled everything again, and I *think* I've deleted all > julia-related files, but when I re-install Julia I still get the same error > message. > > > On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 1:12:25 PM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson > wrote: >> >> It is likely "~/.juliarc" that is the file you are after. >> >> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:47:16 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: >>> >>> Hi Kristoffer, >>> >>> I don't know if this is the right file (/julia-0.4.6/etc/julia/juliarc), >>> but this is what it says: >>> >>> # This file should contain site-specific commands to be executed on >>> Julia startup >>> # Users should store their own personal commands in homedir(), in a file >>> named .juliarc.jl >>> >>> # Set up environment for Julia Windows binary distribution >>> ENV["PATH"] = >>> JULIA_HOME*";"*joinpath(JULIA_HOME,"..","Git","bin")*";"*ENV["PATH"] >>> >>> >>> Should there be more here? >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:36:10 AM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Maybe you can look into the .juliarc file at the line where it is >>>> telling you the error is and see if anything looks strange. >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:11:54 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> No, it didn't create another one. I think you're right and I didn't >>>>> delete what Julia was looking for. But it seems very strange that this >>>>> error message appeared without any sort of prompt - I'm not doing >>>>> anything >>>>> that I haven't been doing for the last 6 months. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 1:51:54 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> That's strange. Did it create a ~/.julia_history file after you >>>>>> deleted the old one? If so, what's in it? >>>>>> >>>>>> I wonder if the ~/.julia_history file you deleted was not the one >>>>>> that Julia's looking at. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Andy Dobson <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This morning when starting Julia 0.4.3 (which I've been using daily >>>>>>> since February) I received this error message : >>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> ERROR: Invalid history file (~/.julia_history) format: >>>>>>> If you have a history file left over from an older version of Julia, >>>>>>> try renaming or deleting it. >>>>>>> Invalid character: '#' at line 465034 >>>>>>> in error at error.jl:22 >>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A thread on this site ("PSA: new ~/.julia_history >>>>>>> format") suggested deleting the julia_history file. I tried this, >>>>>>> and it did not work. Next I uninstalled Julia and re-installed the >>>>>>> latest >>>>>>> (0.4.6) version. The error message is the same. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Can anybody suggest a solution? I'm running on Windows 7 Enterprise. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Andy >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>
