Erlang plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Erlang plugin for IntelliJ IDEA released today.
It is free, available in both Community Edition and related products: RubyMine, PyCharm, WebStorm, etc.

Main features

• Syntax highlighting
• Auto-completion of function names, variables, records and keywords
• Search by code for functions, modules, variables and records
• Basic refactorings: rename and safe delete
• Code Navigation: structure view and go to declaration
• View documentation for functions and modules (edoc format)
• Basic formatter
• Highlighting unresoved variables and records

This is a release with a set of basic features for editing code and navigating a project written in Erlang. Its main purpose is to understand the direction of further development.

Screenshots

Structure view

Auto-completion of function names in the export attribute

')

Find usages for records (uses are shown including in external files)

Quickdoc for function

Autocompletion in the function body

Future plans

• Auto completion enhancement
• Running an application from an IDE
• Debagger
• Life templates for gen_server, etc.
• Documentation for functions from standard modules

Today's release is very early, it, as already written above, is aimed at getting feedback and considering wishes.
Wishes and omissions are accepted in trekker .

Thanks

When developing, Grammar-Kit was used - a framework for building plug-ins to support programming languages ​​for BNF grammars.
I recommend to look at this plugin when writing language support for IntelliJ Platform.

Links

• Erlang plugin in Intelli IDEA repository
• Plugin source code

Afterword

Yes, I know about the ErlGray plugin, but unfortunately it is available only for the 10.x branch.