Shell mode on Windows

[jaakkor2]

https://github.com/modernjuliaworkflows/modernjuliaworkflows.github.io/blob/main/pages/writing/writing.md#shell-mode-

By pressing ; you enter a terminal, where you can execute any bash command you want.

On Windows echo "hello" returns

ERROR: IOError: could not spawn `echo hello`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)

Possibilities include cmd /c echo "hello" or powershell echo "hello".

Endless discussion here JuliaLang/julia#23703 and in the linked issues and PRs.

[gdalle]

Thanks, I didn't know that! For a cross-platform example, does ls work?

[jaakkor2]

ls does not work either, because (IIUC) there is no shell associated in the shell mode in Windows. So shell mode can only launch binaries.

;powershell ls, ;powershell dir, ;cmd /c dir works. ;cmd /c ls does not.

[gdalle]

Ok, i added a comment specifying that the shell example works on Unix only