Use open to open Julia REPL in macOS default terminal
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Most macOS developers use third-party terminal apps (e.g. iTerm2) to replace macOS's default terminal. Current implementation will always open built-in terminal to execute Julia REPL, which is not good enough.
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This seems nice! Would be nice if we can get quick reviews from folks who know more about applescript than me. |
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Ah, that's very nice! It seems to work correctly for me. Do you know what determines this? Previously we had looked at different things but came to the conclusion that Mac OS didn't have the notion of a default terminal (#24906). |
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Ah, it seems to be due to the |
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Will this work reliably on older releases of macOS from about 2013 or so? |
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I would think so (the link above is from 2011), but I'm not sure how we could check. |
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I suppose we have adequate time to test this out over the 1.8 release cycle. In the worst case, it should at least open Julia in Terminal. |
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Most macOS developers use third-party terminal apps (e.g. iTerm2) to replace macOS's default terminal. Current implementation will always open built-in terminal to execute Julia REPL, which is not good enough. By using
opencommand, macOS will automatically use the user-default terminal to execute Julia executable