Improvements to contrib/julia-mode.el (Emacs mode)

Add functions to execute Julia code in Terminal.app on Mac OS X.

Improve font lock.

Function julia-documentation based on ESS’s Julia mode plus fix.

Set comment-add to 1.

Add key bindings.

Add logic for auto-mode-alist.
Agreed, I think we'll need a parser. It doesn't need to be a full parser, just something that counts open and close delimeters (plus comments and strings, which don't nest in the same way) should be sufficient. I'll try to find some time to write a patch.