Julia REPL hangs on startup in rxvt-unicode
Julia master REPL hangs on startup in rxvt-unicode because the REPL emits escape sequences that terminal does not handle.
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3 public reports · first reported 25 September 2026 · last reported 25 September 2026
What's going wrong
Users of the Julia programming language's master branch report that the interactive REPL freezes when it starts in the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator, so it appears unresponsive from the first moment.
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