werl - The Erlang Emulator
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werl(1) User Commands werl(1)
NAME
werl - The Erlang Emulator
DESCRIPTION
On Windows, the preferred way to start the Erlang system for interac-
tive use is:
werl <arguments>
This will start Erlang in its own window, with fully functioning com-
mand-line editing and scrollbars. All flags except -oldshell work as
they do for the erl command.
Ctrl-C is reserved for copying text to the clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste).
To interrupt the runtime system or the shell process (depending on what
has been specified with the +B system flag), you should use Ctrl-Break.
In cases where you want to redirect standard input and/or standard out-
put or use Erlang in a pipeline, the werl is not suitable, and the erl
program should be used instead.
The werl window is in many ways modelled after the xterm window present
on other platforms, as the xterm model fits well with line oriented
command based interaction. This means that selecting text is line ori-
ented rather than rectangle oriented.
To select text in the werl window , simply press and hold the left
mouse button and drag the mouse over the text you want to select. If
the selection crosses line boundaries, the selected text will consist
of complete lines where applicable (just like in a word processor). To
select more text than fits in the window, start by selecting a small
portion in the beginning of the text you want, then use the scrollbar
to view the end of the desired selection, point to it and press the
right mouse-button. The whole area between your first selection and the
point where you right-clicked will be included in the selection.
The selected text is copied to the clipboard by either pressing Ctrl-C,
using the menu or pressing the copy button in the toolbar.
Pasted text is always inserted at the current prompt position and will
be interpreted by Erlang as usual keyboard input.
Previous command lines can be retrieved by pressing the Up arrow or by
pressing Ctrl-P. There is also a drop down box in the toolbar contain-
ing the command history. Selecting a command in the drop down box will
insert it at the prompt, just as if you used the keyboard to retrieve
the command.
Closing the werl window will stop the Erlang emulator.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/erlang |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://www.erlang.org/down-
load/otp_src_17.5.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.erlang.org/.
Ericsson AB erts 6.4 werl(1)