It seems to work for me. What were you trying to set JULIA_EDITOR to when you were trying emacs? Were you trying to use console emacs with emacs -nw?
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 7:46:21 AM UTC-5, Josef Sachs wrote: > > Is there a way that I can use edit() to start emacs in the foreground > with support for line number? > > As a kludge, I am currently setting JULIA_EDITOR=mvim, and I have a > mvim in my PATH that is a symbolic link to emacs. >