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Source code editors for Erlang

Erlang is an open source programming language. Multiple development environments have support for Erlang.

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Erlang is an open source programming language. Multiple development environments (including IDEs and source code editors with plug-ins adding IDE features) have support for Erlang.1

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

Syntax, parsing, code-assist

IDE Syntax coloring Live parsing, error checking Code indentation Code reformatting Code outline Code folding Code completion Static code analysis (Dialyzer)
GNU Emacs Yes EDTS plug-in2 Yes No EDTS plug-in2 EDTS plug-in2
Vim Yes vim-erlang-compiler plug-in3 Yes No Tag List plug-in4 Yes vim-erlang-omnicomplete plug-in5 ALE plug-in6
Eclipse erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7 No erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8
Sublime Text version 2 Yes No Non-standard No Yes No No
Sublime Text version 3 Yes No Non-standard No Yes Erl-AutoCompletion plug-in9 No
Atom atom-language-erlang plug-in10 No Non-standard No atom-language-erlang plug-in10 No No
Visual Studio Code vscode_erlang plug-in11 vscode_erlang plug-in11 Non-standard No vscode_erlang plug-in11 No No

Goto, searching

IDE Go to declaration Show definition/information Find usages/references
GNU Emacs EDTS plug-in2 EDTS plug-in2 EDTS plug-in2
Vim vim-erlang-tags plug-in12 No No
Eclipse erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8
Sublime Text version 2 No No
Sublime Text version 3 Erl-AutoCompletion9 No No
Atom No No
Visual Studio Code No No

Code generation

IDE Code snippets Module skeletons
GNU Emacs Yes Yes
Vim vim-snippets plug-in vim-erlang-skeletons plug-in
Eclipse No erlide plug-in7
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8
Sublime Text version 2 No No
Sublime Text version 3 No No
Atom atom-language-erlang plug-in10 No
Visual Studio Code erlang-vscode plug-in13 No

Build, debug, run

IDE Run build Run EUnit tests Run Common Test tests Debugger Hot code loading
GNU Emacs No EDTS plug-in2 No Distel plug-in14 EDTS plug-in2
Vim No vim-erlang-compiler plug-in3
Eclipse erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7 No erlide plug-in7 erlide plug-in7
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 intellij-erlang plug-in8 No
Sublime Text version 2 No No No No No
Sublime Text version 3 No No No No No
Atom No No No atom-language-erlang plug-in10 No
Visual Studio Code No vscode_erlang plug-in11 No vscode_erlang plug-in11 No
References

References

  1. erlang.org: Erlang tools
  2. EDTS plug-in for GNU Emacs
  3. vim-erlang-compiler plug-in for Vim
  4. Tag List plug-in for Vim
  5. vim-erlang-omnicomplete plug-in for Vim
  6. ALE plugin-in for Vim
  7. erlide plug-in for Eclipse
  8. intellij-erlang plug-in for IntelliJ
  9. Erl-AutoCompletion plug-in for Sublime Text 3
  10. atom-language-erlang plug-in for Atom
  11. vscode_erlang plug-in for Visual Studio code
  12. vim-erlang-tags plug-in for Vim
  13. erlang-vscode plug-in for Visual Studio Code
  14. Distel plug-in for GNU Emacs