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Setting up an Erlang development environment

Asked 2008-08-05T19:39:19.710
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I'm interested in looking at Erlang and want to follow the path of least resistance in getting up and running.

At present, I'm planning on installing Erlang R12B-3 and Erlide (Eclipse plugin). This is largely a Google-result-based decision. Initially this will be on a Windows XP system, though I am likely to reproduce the environment on Ubuntu shortly after.

Is there a significantly better choice? Even if it is tied to one platform.

Please share your experiences.

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I highly recommend the Erlang mode shipped with the standard Erlang distribution. I've put together a "works out of the box" Emacs configuration which includes:

  • Syntax highlighting & context-sensitive indentation
  • Dynamic compilation with on-the-fly error highlighting
  • Integrated Erlang shell
  • And more....

You can browse my GitHub repo here:

http://github.com/kevsmith/hl-emacs

answered 2008-09-16T14:33:32.510
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I just use Scite. Type something and press f5 to see the results.

answered 2008-09-15T12:47:58.013
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If you use Vim I recommend you Vimerl (http://github.com/jimenezrick/vimerl):

Features

  • Syntax highlighting
  • Code indenting
  • Code folding
  • Code omni completion
  • Syntax checking with quickfix support
  • Code skeletons for the OTP behaviours
  • Uses configuration from Rebar
  • Pathogen compatible (http://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen)
answered 2012-01-14T16:13:40.160

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