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    <title>Tools Reference Manual</title>
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    <p>The <em>Tools</em> application contains a number of stand-alone
      tools, which are useful when developing Erlang programs.</p>
    <taglist>
      <tag><em>cover</em></tag>
      <item>A coverage analysis tool for Erlang.</item>
      <tag><em>cprof</em></tag>
      <item>A profiling tool that shows how many
       times each function is called. Uses a kind of local call trace
       breakpoints containing counters to achieve very low runtime
       performance degradation.</item>
      <tag><em>erlang.el</em>- Erlang mode for Emacs</tag>
      <item>Editing support such as indentation, syntax highlighting,
       electric commands, module name verification, comment support
       including paragraph filling, skeletons, tags support and more
       for erlang source code. </item>
      <tag><em>eprof</em></tag>
      <item>A time profiling tool; measure how time is used in Erlang
       programs. Predecessor of <em>fprof</em> (see below).</item>
      <tag><em>fprof</em></tag>
      <item>Another Erlang profiler; measure how time is used in your
       Erlang programs. Uses trace to file to minimize runtime
       performance impact, and displays time for calling and called 
       functions.</item>
      <tag><em>instrument</em></tag>
      <item>Utility functions for obtaining and analysing resource usage
       in an instrumented Erlang runtime system.</item>
      <tag><em>make</em></tag>
      <item>A make utility for Erlang similar to UNIX make.</item>
      <tag><em>tags</em></tag>
      <item>A tool for generating Emacs TAGS files from Erlang source
       files.</item>
      <tag><em>xref</em></tag>
      <item>A cross reference tool. Can be used to check dependencies 
       between functions, modules, applications and releases.</item>
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