3. The Erlang mode for Emacs

3 The Erlang mode for Emacs

3.1 Purpose

The purpose of this user guide is to introduce you to the Erlang mode for Emacs and gives some relevant background information of the functions and features. See also Erlang mode reference manual The purpose of the Erlang mode itself is to facilitate the developing process for the Erlang programmer-

3.2 Pre-requisites

Basic knowledge of Emacs and Erlang/OTP.

3.3 Elisp

There are two Elisp modules included in this tool package for Emacs. There is erlang.el that defines the actual erlang mode and there is erlang-start.el that makes some nice initializations.

3.4 Setup on UNIX

To set up the Erlang Emacs mode on a UNIX systems, edit/create the file .emacs in the your home directory.

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