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The documentation for erlide is managed in the wiki and the Eclipse help is generated automatically from there.

We welcome documentation improvements, see the developer's guide for details.

User's guide

Getting started

• Features
• Installing and updating
• Configuration
• Tutorials
  • Quick start by Eli Liang
  • Hello world by Alain O’Dea
• Troubleshooting
• FAQ - check this out first.

Bugs? Suggestions?

• Write a support ticket! Please attach (or email) logs retrieved with Window -> Preferences -> Erlang -> Report problem.

Of course, code contributions are more than welcome. See below for details and I will be glad to guide you around the code.

Reference

• Concepts
• Creating a project (from scratch or from existing code)
• Configuring a project
• Navigating through the code
• Editor view
• Navigator view
• Erlang search
• Running and debugging Erlang code
• Plug-ins
  • Tracing plugin
  • Cover Plugin

Developer's guide

Contributing to erlide

So you want to get hacking on erlide. If you’re new to Git, please read New to Git. If you know your way around it, read the following (parts shamelessly adapted from the pages at erlang/otp):

• Tools and requirements

• Accessing the code

• Branches

• Submitting patches

• Git Tools and Hacks

• Testing erlide

Project management

• Plugins description
• Building and distributing
• Development policies
• Release process
• Creating a release

Architecture and design

• Modeling structure proposal 1