Julia does not show prompt in Emacs

[rhymer]

I use Emacs 24.3.1 under Windows 7 x64. When I M-x shell and julia to execute julia.exe (not via ESS), there are several problems:

• There is no splash.
• There is no prompt.
• Expression ending with a semicolon still shows its value.
• Type ?help gives ERROR: syntax: extra token "help" after end of expression

Here's how it looks in Emacs:

If I execute julia.exe from cmd then everything is fine:

Here is my versioninfo(true):

Julia Version 0.3.0
Commit 7681878 (2014-08-20 20:43 UTC)
Platform Info:
System: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
uname: MINGW32_NT-6.1 1.0.12(0.46/3/2) 2012-07-05 14:56 i686 unknown
Memory: 3.7029266357421875 GB (298.31640625 MB free)
Uptime: 92575.65727 sec
Load Avg: 0.0 0.0 0.0
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz:
speed user nice sys idle irq ticks

1 2594 MHz 5419973 0 3710124 83446276 41761 ticks

2 2594 MHz 1938640 0 3134356 87502879 1550400 ticks

3 2594 MHz 4817014 0 3269203 84489533 24772 ticks

4 2594 MHz 1013819 0 626765 90935042 21231 ticks

BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Sandybridge)
LAPACK: libopenblas
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-3.3
Environment:
CLASSPATH = .;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
HOMEDRIVE = C:
HOMEPATH = \Users\X230
JULIA_PKGDIR = C:\Users\X230.julia
PATHEXT = .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
Package Directory: C:\Users\X230.julia

Any idea how to fix it? Thanks!

[pao]

I believe you need to use julia-basic.exe--give that a shot.

[rhymer]

@pao Thanks for your reply. I tried julia-basic.exe from Julia 0.2.0 and the problem still persists:

Also I believe that there is no julia-basic.exe starting from Julia 0.3.

[pao]

hrm, then I'm not sure...is this #5271?

[rhymer]

Yes ESS gives me the same problem. I think it is not the problem of ESS but the problem between Emacs and Julia.
It was pointed out in #5271 that this issue is related to #4589 but It's not clear to me how to solve the problem. I guess my Julia experience will be smoother on Linux machines.

[pao]

The Windows version has come a very long way, but yeah, still going to be a bit smoother on other operating systems. It doesn't appear there is a fix for this at the moment, but since this appears to duplicate #5271 I will close this issue in favor of that one. Thanks!

[tkelman]

partially my fault, see #6560 and #6428. You can try setting the TERM environment variable to see if that makes a difference. Sorry I missed this issue last month.