Source code editors for Erlang

Main article: Erlang (programming language)

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)

Main article: Comparison of integrated development environments

Syntax, parsing, code-assist

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

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

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

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