How to navigate to erlang function in emacs by name?

Question

I use emacs-mode. How can I navigate to function definition by name? Emacs has "imenu-add-to-menubar" command but it's not convenient way because I have to select function name from menu.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Distel package has erl-find-source-under-point function, that is bound to M-. key You can read more about work with Erlang from Emacs in my article

Answer 2

You could use M-x imenu directly—it works only within the current file, though. I bind it to Super-i in my .emacs with:

(global-set-key [(super ?i)] 'imenu)

Answer 3

Erlang is one of the many languages supported by tags. The Erlang docs show that you just build the tags file with:

find . -name "*.[he]rl" -print | etags -

Once you have a TAGS file, you just use M-., which calls 'find-tag. This enables jumping to a function name from anywhere.