[ESS] "?" not working with Julia?

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Thanks. If I may ask, if on Julia you type, say

help("fft")

do you get an error? That is what I get with the generic Linux Binary for
Julia 0.4.2 (downloaded right now from the julia page) and v. 0.4.2-3 from
Debian sid. However, I do not get an error if I use Julia 0.3.12.



As for ESS, I am getting this problem whether using ESS just pulled from
git this afternoon (15.09-2 patched [git:
837454b76475a4eb3256e288fe4149a927faefa9]), the same ESS from ELPA as you,
or ESS from ELPA a few days older than yours (15.09-2 [elpa: 20151210.52]),
all with Emacs 24.5.1.






On Fri, 08-01-2016, at 15:10, Ista Zahn <istazahn using gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to work correctly for me with
> ess-version: 15.09-2 patched [elpa: 20151217.544], emacs version 24.5.1and
> julia 0.4.2.
>
> Best,
> Ista
> On Jan 8, 2016 8:55 AM, "Ramon Diaz-Uriarte" <rdiaz02 using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I just did a fresh install of ESS and the Debian binary of Julia
>> (v. 0.4.2-3) and accessing the help does not seem to work. For instance, if
>> I do
>>
>> julia> ?fft
>>
>> I get
>>
>> ERROR: UndefVarError: help not defined.
>>
>> Likewise, C-c C-d C-d fails with the same error (though C-c C-d C-a works
>> fine).  I think this might be related to the removal of help as a function
>> in Julia around 0.4 (though I think apropos should also disappear soon too
>> if I understand correctly:
>>
>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/55339fca71e643db614c459c55fd742fdef8c4d0
>> ).
>>
>>
>> I guess this is a bug in ESS, but I was reluctant to submit it since I am
>> not really sure.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> R.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
>> Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
>> Facultad de Medicina
>> Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
>> Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
>> 28029 Madrid
>> Spain
>>
>> Phone: +34-91-497-2412
>>
>> Email: rdiaz02 using gmail.com
>>        ramon.diaz using iib.uam.es
>>
>> http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
>>
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-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02 using gmail.com
       ramon.diaz using iib.uam.es

http://ligarto.org/rdiaz