For some reason the .juliarc.jl file is not loading on master (but is in v0.6.2):
[solver-mbook:~] solver% cat .juliarc.jl
println("hi")
[solver-mbook:~] solver% julia
hi
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_ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
(_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help.
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| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.6.2 (2017-12-13 18:08 UTC)
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|__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin17.3.0
julia>
[solver-mbook:~] solver% Projects/julia7/julia
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_ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
(_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help.
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| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.7.0-DEV.4390 (2018-02-26 07:59 UTC)
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit 79c7bdd9ec (0 days old master)
|__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin17.4.0
julia>
It got moved to ~/.julia/config/startup.jl
in #26161. It's in NEWS, but we could probably do to make a general announcement.
Updating the docs would help too
$ ack juliarc doc
doc/man/julia.1
80:Load ~/.juliarc.jl
192:.I ~/.juliarc.jl
197:.I /etc/julia/juliarc.jl
doc/src/manual/environment-variables.md
8:configuration file `.juliarc.jl` in the user's home directory to have
45:configuration file directory. Then Julia searches for a `juliarc.jl` file at
48:$JULIA_BINDIR/$SYSCONFDIR/julia/juliarc.jl
49:$JULIA_BINDIR/../etc/julia/juliarc.jl
52:by default (via `Base.load_juliarc()`).
65:/etc/julia/juliarc.jl
doc/src/manual/getting-started.md
83:If you have code that you want executed whenever Julia is run, you can put it in `~/.juliarc.jl`:
86:$ echo 'println("Greetings! 你好! 안녕하세요?")' > ~/.juliarc.jl
103: --startup-file={yes|no} Load ~/.juliarc.jl
doc/src/manual/modules.md
194:Putting this statement in the file `~/.juliarc.jl` will extend [`LOAD_PATH`](@ref) on every Julia startup.
doc/src/manual/parallel-computing.md
224:Note that workers do not run a `.juliarc.jl` startup script, nor do they synchronize their global
doc/src/manual/workflow-tips.md
58:If you further add the following to your `.juliarc.jl` file
Whoops, I was on the wrong branch. It looks like this has been updated. Do you have any specific sections where you found it to be out of date?
$ ack juliarc doc
$
I just clicked on “latest” in the docs, probably it hasn’t been updated yet
The latest docs are now updated.
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Updating the docs would help too