Erlang/OTP Support for Visual Studio Code

This extension provides Erlang/OTP support for Visual Studio Codeand is available at the Marketplace.

News

• 2017-06-12: Common used rebar3 commands (contributed by @frepond)
• 2017-06-09: Experimental workspace modules and functions auto-completion (contributed by @frepond)
• 2016-02-17: Experimental module name auto-completion (currently Erlang standard library modules only)
• 2016-02-16: Added experimental support for auto-completion of Erlang standard library module functions.

Enable it with:

setting erlang.enableExperimentalAutoComplete to true in your user settings and restart VSCode.

Features

• Syntax highlighting
• Auto-indent
• Snippets
• Auto-complete (experimental)
• Rebar3 common commands
• Format document (needs emacs installed)
• Generate Erlang ctags (* needs ctags installed, for use with ctags plugin *)

Workspace auto-completion is based on file .erl_workspace.json in the workspace top folder. This file could be generated using the Cmd+Shit+P and Erlang: generate workspace completions. This file is generated with available *.beam under the current workspace (it needs the project to be already built). The command rebar compile` within the editor triggers this automatically upon successful compile.

Planned Features

• Build support
• Erlang shell

Work In Progress

This extension is still WIP, feel free to submit ideas/bug fixes on Github.

Snippets

• rec: receive block
• reca: receive block with after
• case: case block
• if: if block
• try: try .. catch block

You can submit more snippets on Github.

Thanks

• Erlang syntax file is based on: https://github.com/pgourlain/vscode_erlang.