Setting up Emacs for programming Erlang

Question

Emacs is the IDE of choice for programming Erlang.

There are plenty of good modes (distel, erlware-mode, the default erlang mode,...), but what are your recommendations for setting up Emacs for professional Erlang development?

Answer 1

If you want more than erlang-mode offers, a possible alternative to Distel is EDTS, the Erlang Development Tool Suite. To quote the readme file:

EDTS is meant to be a able to replace Distel but only provides part of the most commonly used of Distel's features, specifically the equivalents of erl-find-module, erl-find-source-under-point, erl-who-calls and erl-refactor-subfunction. As far as I know, those are the only Distel features that 98% of people use, but if there is anything from Distel that you are missing in EDTS, please let me know.

If you are using EDTS, please remove Distel from your configuration, since running both can create some confusion.