First you need to download and install Wrangler: details of this are on the home page. All the details of getting Wrangler running are further down this page.

The system is documented: this tells you about all the refactorings and other facilities. You can read it here. Installation instructions are further down this page …

You can see some introductory presentations about using Wrangler here.

1. •    Improving your (test) code with Wrangler
   

2. •    Hands-on Refactoring with Wrangler
   

Finally, you can take a look at the videos about Wrangler, available from the home page.

Installation

With Emacs in Mac OS X and Linux

Requires Erlang release R14 and above + Emacs

Download Wrangler

Execute ./configure,

              make,

              sudo make install

Add to .emacs file:

   (add-to-list 'load-path                               

        "/usr/local/share/wrangler/elisp")

   (require 'wrangler)

If you use Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), you will need to use the flag --enable-darwin-64bit in building Erlang.

With Emacs in Windows

Requires Erlang release R14 and above + Emacs

Download installer

No more action required.

Eclipse + ErlIDE

Requires Erlang R14 or later …

On Windows systems, use a path with no spaces in it.

Install Eclipse 3.4, if you didn't already.

All the details at http://erlide.sourceforge.net/

Running Wrangler in Emacs

Load a .erl file.

Start/stop using

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-R

To undo any refactoring

type Ctrl-C, Ctrl-_

To configure the search

directories, select the Customize Wrangler menu option.