I'm on Mac OS X with Julia 0.4.3.
The edit function is defined in interactiveutil.jl
<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/interactiveutil.jl>.
What is the output if you run this at the REPL:
Base.editor()
What happens if you do this at the REPL:
run(`emacs Makefile`)
If you notice in the definition of edit that I linked to, when the editor
is emacs, it uses spawn instead of run.
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 4:16:45 PM UTC-5, Josef Sachs wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:03:08 -0700 (PDT), daniel matz said:
>
> > 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.
>
> My EDITOR is set to emacs. I am connected to an Ubuntu system via ssh,
> with no X Window System. When I unset JULIA_EDITOR and run julia,
>
> julia> edit("Makefile")
> emacs: standard input is not a tty
>
> Maybe that's what you mean by "console emacs"?
>
> Are you running the X Window System? If so, then running emacs in the
> background would work.
>
