I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 64-bit and trying to get Erlang's 18.1 'debugger' or 'observer' to run (EDIT: from within the shell): observer:start(). debugger:start(). I get the following error: {e...

I'm sure that there is a function for that. I just want to make a list of 1000 numbers, each one of them which should be random.

When typing () in IEx 1.2.4, the cursor would "jumping" to the matching parenthesis for 1s and move back. Even though it's not really jumping but it's kinda annoying to the eye. Is there a way to d...

I have some strange behaviour on my docker containers (CentOS). When I SSH into it there's a running instance of Erlang VM ([email protected]) I can't connect to it with -remsh argument, howev...

When I try to execute following command that returns error or doesn't exit on Windows - I always get empty list instead of error returned as string so for example: I get: [] = os:cmd("blah"). ...

The Erlang shell "guesses" whether a given list is a printable string and prints it that way for convenience. Can this "convenience" be disabled?

I'm trying to dynamically evalutate Erlang terms Start up Erlang basho-catah% erl Erlang R16B03 (erts-5.10.4) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] Eshell V5...

I'm currently running an Erlang application that is running C code through Nifs. However, if a segmentation fault occurs within the C code, the entire node goes down, as well as the Erlang virtual ...

Given a known TCP port and name for a remote beam.smp service, as well as a known cookie, is it possible to short circuit the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon handshake phase of the Erlang distribution pr...

When compiling an erlang file with erlc I can add additional include directories like so: erlc -I /home/trotter/code/open-source/yaws/include src/myapp.erl When I'm compiling from within erl tho...

I can start an Erlang file either via the command line or bash script: exec erl file.erl But, I cannot seem to find out how to directly start a function within this file. e.g. exec erl file.e...

This started off as the question: Almost every time when I use the Erlang shell, I'd like to run some command on shell startup, e.g. something like rr("*.hrl"). Or similar. Currently I have to ...

In the Erlang interactive shell you can bind variables to values. If I would like to clear everything and start from scratch without exiting the session and starting a new one, how do I do that? A...