I like Emacs and Erlang too; I have set-up the erlang-mode and distel properly.
In my project,when dealing with the log,it doesn't show the
=ERROR REPORT==== 15-Sep-2012::14:09:30 ===
in the erlang-shell.
However in Windows it works. but, I like to develop on Ubuntu. Could anyone give me some advice on how to get it to work?