[erlang-questions] erlang emacsmode problem

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Dominic Williams
<erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Double check your paths. Make sure they actually exist as written. If
>> you've been getting this error since the upgrade to R12B-3 the cause
>> of the error should be obvious.
>
> And if that was your problem, you could use some more flexible emacs-lisp
> such as this (no hard-coded tools-x.y.z version):

I think it's obvious but in case someone is possibly missing this
little bit of info the following or something more Emacs-idiomatic
should be done before that:
(if (or (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
        (eq system-type 'ms-dos))
	(setq erlang-root-dir "C:/erlang")
  (setq erlang-root-dir "/usr/local/otp")
)

> (if
>    (not (boundp 'erlang-root-dir))
>    (message "Skipping erlang-mode: erlang-root-dir not defined")
>  (progn
>    (set 'erlang-bin (concat erlang-root-dir "/bin/"))
>    (set 'erlang-lib (concat erlang-root-dir "/lib/"))
>    (if
>        (not (boundp 'erlang-mode-path))
>        (set 'erlang-mode-path
>             (concat
>              erlang-lib
>              (file-name-completion "tools-" erlang-lib)
>              "emacs/erlang.el")))
>    (if
>        (and
>         (file-readable-p erlang-mode-path)
>         (file-readable-p erlang-bin))
>        (progn
>          (message "Setting up erlang-mode")
>          (set 'exec-path (cons erlang-bin exec-path))
>          (set 'load-path (cons
>                           (concat
>                            erlang-lib
>                            (file-name-completion "tools-" erlang-lib)
>                            "emacs")
>                           load-path))
>          (set 'load-path (cons (file-name-directory erlang-mode-path) load-path))
>          (require 'erlang-start))
>      (message "Skipping erlang-mode: %s and/or %s not readable"
> erlang-bin erlang-mode-path))))
>
> Regards,
>
> Dominic Williams
> http://dominicwilliams.net
>
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