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Life & fun · September 10, 2023

Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development

erlmacs automatically configures and updates your .emacs file with support for the emacs mode that is included with Erlang/OTP. It frees you from having to locate the installation directory of Erlang/OTP and its bundled emacs mode. It is an escript that only depends upon Erlang/OTP and Emacs. Note: There is not much in the way of error checking at this moment, but it does make a backup of your .emacs files before any destructive operations.

Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development launched on September 10, 2023 with 44 votes, #1,308 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

Erlmacs is an escript that automatically configures Emacs for Erlang development by updating the .emacs file with support for Erlang/OTP's bundled emacs mode. It eliminates the need to manually locate Erlang installation directories. The tool requires only Erlang/OTP and Emacs to run and creates backups of .emacs files before making changes.

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From the sources

Simple script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development - dlachausse/erlmacs

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