<div dir="ltr">Hi Luca,<div><br></div><div>Yes, I know a couple of people that use erlide on OSX. All the problems that I heard of were related to the computer name issue. Since I don't have a Mac, it's difficult to give you the exact steps to fix the situation. I assume that you have tried all the things suggested on the wiki page?</div><div><br></div><div>If you rename your computer to "foo", that name can't be used with -name. You have to use the fully qualified value -- and it has to be possible to resolve that name, most easily by adding the entry to .hosts.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you added the new name (and the FQDN) to .hosts?</div><div><br></div><div>best regards,</div><div>Vlad</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Luca Finzi Contini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lucafinzicontini@gmail.com" target="_blank">lucafinzicontini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div>is there anyone using ErlIDE / Eclipse on Mac OS X Mavericks? </div><div>I have successfully installed it on Windows but I usually work on a Mac. </div><div>I tried with Eclipse 3.7, 4.2.2, 4.4, with no luck.</div><div>The IDE goes 'not responding' after a few keystrokes on the source editor. </div><div>In the rare moments of awakens it has *wonderful* hot code update features which are really good especially for those accustomed to Eclipse in the Java world. </div><div>I tried to follow the suggestions here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/erlide/erlide/wiki/Troubleshooting" target="_blank">https://github.com/erlide/erlide/wiki/Troubleshooting</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>especially when it says: </div><div>"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:25px">For Macs, an alternative solution is to rename your computer from </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">foo.whatever</code><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:25px"> to just </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">foo</code><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:25px"> (or anyhting without any dots)."</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:25px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px">If I do this, apparently I cannot start an erlang instance with long name as in </span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px">erl -name foo</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px">The currently installed Java version is 1.8.0. </span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px">Has anyone managed to have ErlIDE up and running smoothly on Mac?</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px">Thanks in advance.</span></font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:25px">Luca.</span></font></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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