Source code editors for Erlang

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) edit

Syntax, parsing, code-assist edit

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-in[2] Yes No EDTS plug-in[2] EDTS plug-in[2]
Vim Yes vim-erlang-compiler plug-in[3] Yes No Tag List plug-in[4] Yes vim-erlang-omnicomplete plug-in[5] ALE plug-in[6]
Eclipse erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7] No erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7]
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8]
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-in[9] No
Atom atom-language-erlang plug-in[10] No Non-standard No atom-language-erlang plug-in[10] No No
Visual Studio Code vscode_erlang plug-in[11] vscode_erlang plug-in[11] Non-standard No vscode_erlang plug-in[11] No No

Goto, searching edit

IDE Go to declaration Show definition/information Find usages/references
GNU Emacs EDTS plug-in[2] EDTS plug-in[2] EDTS plug-in[2]
Vim vim-erlang-tags plug-in[12] No No
Eclipse erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7]
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8]
Sublime Text version 2 No No
Sublime Text version 3 Erl-AutoCompletion[9] No No
Atom No No
Visual Studio Code No No

Code generation edit

IDE Code snippets Module skeletons
GNU Emacs Yes Yes
Vim vim-snippets plug-in vim-erlang-skeletons plug-in
Eclipse No erlide plug-in[7]
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8]
Sublime Text version 2 No No
Sublime Text version 3 No No
Atom atom-language-erlang plug-in[10] No
Visual Studio Code erlang-vscode plug-in[13] No

Build, debug, run edit

IDE Run build Run EUnit tests Run Common Test tests Debugger Hot code loading
GNU Emacs No EDTS plug-in[2] No Distel plug-in[14] EDTS plug-in[2]
Vim No vim-erlang-compiler plug-in[3]
Eclipse erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7] No erlide plug-in[7] erlide plug-in[7]
IntelliJ IDEA intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] intellij-erlang plug-in[8] 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-in[10] No
Visual Studio Code No vscode_erlang plug-in[11] No vscode_erlang plug-in[11] No

References edit

  1. ^ erlang.org: Erlang tools
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h EDTS plug-in for GNU Emacs
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o erlide plug-in for Eclipse
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q intellij-erlang plug-in for IntelliJ
  9. ^ a b Erl-AutoCompletion plug-in for Sublime Text 3
  10. ^ a b c d atom-language-erlang plug-in for Atom
  11. ^ a b c d e 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