Cool packages that we all should know about

Template for a possible future workshop

This workshop will be a jam-packed, hands-on tour of the Julia REPL so that beginners and experts alike can learn a few tips and tricks. Every Julia user spends a significant amount of coding time interacting with the REPL - my claim for this workshop is that all Julia users can save themselves more than 3 hours of productive coding time over their careers should they attend this workshop, so why not invest in yourself now?

Plan (pending review) for the material that will be covered:

• Navigation

  • moving around,

  • basic commands,

  • variables,

  • shortcuts and keyboard combinations,

  • cross language comparison of REPL features,

  • Vim Mode project

• Internals and configuration

  • Basic APIs,

  • display control codes,

  • terminals and font support,

  • startup file options, prompt changing,

  • flag configurations

• REPL Modes

  • Shell mode,

  • Pkg mode,

  • help mode,

  • workflow demos for contributing code fixes,

  • REPLMaker.jl BuildYourOwnMode demo,

Tools and packages

• OhMyREPL.jl,

• PkgTemplates.jl,

• Eyeball.jl,

• TerminalPager.jl,

• AbstractTrees.jl,

• Debugger.jl,

• UnicodePlots.jl,

• ProgressMeters.jl,

• PlutoREPL.jl (???) project

• Term.jl

Miscelanea

• TerminalMenus.jl in base

• VideosInTerminal.jl + ImagesInTerminal.jl like Jesse Betancourt's

• DoctorDoctrings.jl and hijacking REPL history

• InteractiveErrors.jl

• AbbreviatedStackTraces.jl

• pkg prompt with temp directory

• TerminalPager.jl for DataFrames.jl stuff

• ] add Foo; undo!

• Latex shortcuts via Keno

• Jacob Quinn: ?foo gives you help, but ??foo gives you the stuff under "# Extended help"

https://julialang.slack.com/archives/C6FGJ8REC/p1623860727294500

• LLVM_JULIA_ARGS=-time-passes ./julia -e 'using Plots; plot(1:10)'

• switch repl modes via menu https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/33875

• fzf reverse search

• https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/38791

• Reverse latex/emoji lookup with ?\partial

• Stack traces with CTRL+Q, but also methods(foo) + 1 + CTRL+Q.

• Change your prompt:

julia> Base.active_repl.interface.modes[1].prompt = "julia 😷>"

• ] activate @juliaimages