Talk:Introducing Julia/Getting started

For Linux, you list "Using Binaries" after "Installing from package", yet on julialang.org: "It is strongly recommended that the official generic linux binaries from the downloads page be used to install Julia." Given the rapid changes to the language and the typical slowness of distros to adopt new versions, the position at julialang.org makes sense. Even if you don't want to state it as strongly as they do, might I suggest you switch the order between binaries and packages and at least mention that the binaries are the "official" preference?

Also, why is "Binaries" capitalized? Since "Binaries" isn't a proper name, it seems inconsistent with the rest of the contents list.

I do appreciate the book. Julia is interesting and your book has helped me get a better appreciation.73.53.187.236 (discuss) 00:39, 18 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, good idea! These sections are contributed by different people, hence the general inconsistencies. Making the changes looks to be easy so: be bold and contribute them yourself! Cheeers Cormullion (discuss • contribs) 07:11, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Making selection easier
The REPL commands can be made easier to copy and paste, if the initial  prompt part was non-selectable. Then, the user can for eg. triple click on the command line and get only the command part selected for copying.

This can be done with the  CSS command, but unfortunately most browsers except Chrome still need a browser-specific prefix on it (https://caniuse.com/#feat=user-select-none). So instead, we can wrap all the  prompts in a   tag, with a class attribute of  :

and add this CSS:

The  tag is allowed on MediaWiki, and adding CSS also seems possible (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cascading_style_sheets), but I can't figure out from that page where exactly to add CSS code like the above. If someone with experience could add the CSS in some appropriate place, we can simply find-and-replace all  in the book with   and achieve this. Sundaryourfriend (discuss • contribs) 10:06, 31 March 2018 (UTC)


 * interesting idea, but it’s a lot of work (especially for future authors) for such a small improvement. Besides, isn’t there a Julia feature that already does this - “prompt pasting”? https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/REPL/ Cormullion (discuss • contribs) 10:27, 31 March 2018 (UTC)