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Erlang is so good that I’ll tolerate emacs with its RSI-inducing keystrokes and arcane minutiae.

The main reason Erlang programmers should consider emacs is Distel, an excellent extension that tightly integrates elisp and Erlang. As of this writing, only emacs provides good Distel support. Others, such as Erlide (eclipse) and Erlybird (Netbeans), just aren’t ready for serious development.

Unfortunately, if you ride the bleeding edge with alpha emacs 23, with Unicode support and vastly improved fonts, Distel is broken. Fortunately, you can find a working patch here.

Distel is available from the author’s site although, lately, I’ve had better luck downloading from code.google.com.

And here‘s Bill Clementson’s superb introduction to using Distel with emacs.