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Recently, I’ve been working with Nx/Axon. Training a model can take quite a long time, so I often return to the same IEx session later.
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Im using IEx with MacOS. I can type a module name and press [TAB] key to get an autocompletion list like follows. Is there any wa...
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So I have learnt a new thing recently, processes spawned in an IEx shell are not terminated after IEx exists, not even if they we...
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Today I’ve learned about the user-switch-command (IEx — IEx v1.18.4), and doing an s iex fails with an error...
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How could I send an EOF/EOT inside an input in iex?
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iex> IO.read :all
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So I have learnt a new thing recently, processes spawned in an IEx shell are not terminated after IEx exists, not even if they we...
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Recently I noticed that when I save a source file from my editor while having an IEx session running, the latter automatically recompiles...
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Im using IEx with MacOS. I can type a module name and press [TAB] key to get an autocompletion list like follows. Is there any wa...
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Recently, I’ve been working with Nx/Axon. Training a model can take quite a long time, so I often return to the same IEx session later.
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Is there any way to avoid the Hologram compiler running when using iex? It seems like the front-end code could potentially be disregarded...
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Today I’ve learned about the user-switch-command (IEx — IEx v1.18.4), and doing an s iex fails with an error...
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What is the proper way to load a module from a file in to IEX?
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We have an elixir app running in prod. I can SSH onto this box, but is it possible to connect to the app with an iex session? When I r...
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Is there a known issue with :observer with Elixir 1.15 that I’m unaware of? I’ve added :observer to :extra_applications but it gives this...
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I just installed Elixir 1.10 on my Arch Linux and I am starting to learn this nice language.
I am experiencing some problems ...
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Iex not working in windows terminal,when i typed iex only a blank space appeared,i have correctly added the environmental variables.That ...
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I’d like to add some custom helper functions to iex. I use .iex.exs and can define a module there with my custom functions. But I can’t...
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I get a response from a (pretty funky) API, and am trying to decode it with HTTPoison.
It fails with something like this...
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I am trying to pry some code and the request continues without entering pry(1)> prompt. I use require IEx; IEx.pry or dbg with...
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For anyone who’s worked on a terminal interface in Elixir, you may be excited to know that raw mode is coming to OTP 28: Implement lazy-r...
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Gigalixir lets us start a remote shell, similar to iex --remsh. The command is:
gigalixir ps:remote_console -a my-app
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I’m writing a small CLI application using Burrito. Per its README, I set up an application with a mod entrypoint in mix.exs; the module l...
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Is there a way to make an equivalent for .iex.exs for releases, where a handful of modules are aliased or imported that are useful for th...
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I am going through the Phoenix tutorial. I am currently looking at controllers and trying to open a REPL session like I would wit...
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Hi. I’ve noticed that Windows Powershell has it’s own IEX command and you cannot access Elixir’s IEX due to the conflict. This isn’t a cr...
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When I run the Plug and I recompile I wind up having to use Ctrl C to quit iex and start again. Witht the help of rlwrap I can use the cu...
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I have an application :myapp and I am trying to add some web functionality to it from zero using Plug. However, even though I ...
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Can anyone provide please an example how to add, lets say purple color, to console logger backend? I tried to redo the same what I've fou...
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TL;DR: I’m running a Phoenix app as a release where I didn’t defined anything about node config...
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What is the indication of async-threads when starting iex?
I couldn’t found anything on the web. I have 8 cores on my machine
and when ...
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Hi, I have been experiencing some problems using on Windows regarding iex output coloring.
Since I’ve been using CMDER as my main consol...
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iex> 75000 / 12.5
6.0e3
iex(14)> 75000 / 12.5 |> Float.to_string
"6.0e3"
It is kind of weird that Elixir...
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I'm on Windows 10 and Elixir development is alright on Windows, but I miss only one thing. When I type a module name on Ubuntu or Mac and...
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In Elixir we are continuously trying to improve the experience for developers learning the language. However, there are still common road...
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I wanted to know if it’s possible to configure the cwd (current working directory) path of the mix.exs file (which is the ...
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I have a piece of code that gets executed on successful user signin, and everything seems to work fine, except that one of my assigned va...
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Is there a way to stop the iex truncating long outputs?
I’m wanting to print about 200 lines of a list but it’s only printing about 50 l...
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I wrote a app for my backend and run in bare-metal .
How config to use iex ( shell ) with my app ??
I want use it for add/remove ...
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I just noticed this in Iex:
iex(1)> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
iex(2)> [7,8,9]
'\a\b\t'
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