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2018-12-12Add empty 'since' attribute for old modules and functionsSverker Eriksson
2018-12-11Add "since" attributes in xml for new functions and modulesSverker Eriksson
introduced after OTP_R13B03.
2017-04-27stdlib: Improve the Erlang shell's handling of referencesHans Bolinder
As of Erlang/OTP 20.0, the type of ETS tables, ets:tid(), is a reference(). A request was put forward that the Erlang shell should be able to handle references in its input. This commit introduces an extended parser in module lib. It can parse pids, ports, references, and external funs under the condition that they can be created in the running system. The parser is meant to be used internally in Erlang/OTP. The alternative, to extend erl_scan and erl_parse, was deemed inferior as it would require the abstract format be able to represent pids, ports, references, and funs, which would be confusing as they are not expressions as such, but data types.
2017-04-07stdlib: Fix Erlang shell regarding Unicode atomsHans Bolinder
2017-02-06Add shell shortcut for recompiling existing modulesRichard Carlsson
This extends the shell function c/1 and c/2 so that if the argument is a module name instead of a file name, it automatically locates the .beam file and the corresponding source file, and then recompiles the module using the same compiler options (plus any options passed to c/2). If compilation fails, the old beam file is preserved. Also adds c(Mod, Opts, Filter), where the Filter argument allows you to remove old compiler options before the new options are added.
2016-06-13Update STDLIB documentationBjörn Gustavsson
Language cleaned up by the technical writers xsipewe and tmanevik from Combitech. Proofreading and corrections by Björn Gustavsson and Hans Bolinder.
2016-03-15update copyright-yearHenrik Nord
2015-06-18Change license text to APLv2Bruce Yinhe
2013-04-19Convert XML files to UTF-8Hans Bolinder
2013-02-15[stdlib] Add new SDTLIB application variable 'shell_strings'Hans Bolinder
Use the new function shell:strings/1 to toggle how the Erlang shell outputs lists of integers.
2011-05-12rHans Bolinder
Use Erlang specs and types for documentation
2010-02-10OTP-8418 user.erl (used in oldshell) is updated to handle unicode inPatrik Nyblom
prompt strings (io:get_line/{1,2}). io_lib is also updated to format prompts with the 't' modifier (i.e. ~ts instead of ~s).
2010-02-05OTP-8393 The new function shell:prompt_func/1 and the new applicationHans Bolinder
configuration parameter shell_prompt_func can be used for customizing the Erlang shell prompt.
2009-12-03documentation: Fix bugs introduced in the SGML to XML transitionHans Bolinder
In the transition from SGML to XML (several releases ago), bugs were introduced in the documentation, for instance "\n" replaced by newlines. Correct those bugs. Also correct double backslashes. They seem to have been introduced very early in the development of OTP. According to Lars they "solved" a bug in the generation of HTML &c. Now that standard tools are used instead of docbuilder, the bug has become visible.
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP