Pretty Eshell

Pretty Eshell - A Renovate Erlang Shell with Colorfull Syntax Highlight.

Screenshots

Takes on Ubuntu with Default Terminal.

Dependencies

• Erlang OTP 20 (stdlib-3.4)

How to install

Clone:

  $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/spawnfest/ErlShell.git

Automatically (you may need to run this command with sudo and run erl shell with sudo):

$ make install

Manually:

1. Find out what version of the stdlib library you're using by using application:which_applications() in the Erlang shell. The version number is the last element of the tuple.
2. Compile the files (erl -make).
3. Take the .beam files in ebin/$VSN/ and move them to $ROOT/lib/stdlib-$VSN/ebin/ for the OTP release of your choice.
4. Start the Erlang shell associated with this version of the Erlang/OTP.
5. Enjoy Colourfull shell :)

How to revert-back

Manually :

1. got to $ROOT/lib/stdlib-$VSN/ebin/ and remove io_lib_pretty.beam,lib.beam,shell_profile.beam and shell.beam.
2. Backup file will be there with extension .backup-pre-pretty-erlshell. like io_lib_pretty.beam.backup-pre-pretty-erlshell, lib.beam.backup-pre-pretty-erlshell and so on.
3. Remove Back file extension ie. .backup-pre-pretty-erlshell
4. restart Erlang Shell.
5. done :)

Author

• Prakash Parmar ( prakash.parmar@outlook.com )

Thanks

Thanks to Fred Hebert for details explanation about erlang shell on his blog post

and last but not least A Big thanks to Erlang OTP team, SpawnFest 2017 Organizers, Judges, Sponsors and Gogole.

Happy Coding :)