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    <title>STDLIB</title>
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    <rev></rev>
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  <app>STDLIB</app>
  <appsummary>The STDLIB application.</appsummary>
  <description>
    <p>The STDLIB application is mandatory in the sense that the minimal
      system based on Erlang/OTP consists of Kernel and STDLIB.
      The STDLIB application contains no services.</p>
  </description>

  <section>
    <title>Configuration</title>
    <p>The following configuration parameters are defined for the STDLIB
      application. For more information about configuration parameters, see the
      <seefile marker="kernel:app"><c>app(4)</c></seefile> module in Kernel.</p>

    <taglist>
      <tag><marker id="shell_esc"/><c>shell_esc = icl | abort</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Can be used to change the behavior of the Erlang shell when
          <em>^G</em> is pressed.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="restricted_shell"/><c>restricted_shell = module()</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Can be used to run the Erlang shell in restricted mode.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="shell_catch_exception"/><c>shell_catch_exception = boolean()</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Can be used to set the exception handling of the evaluator process of
          Erlang shell.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="shell_history_length"/><c>shell_history_length = integer() >= 0</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Can be used to determine how many commands are saved by the Erlang
          shell.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="shell_prompt_func"/><c>shell_prompt_func = {Mod, Func} | default</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>where</p>
        <list type="bulleted">
          <item><c>Mod = atom()</c></item>
          <item><c>Func = atom()</c></item>
        </list>
        <p>Can be used to set a customized Erlang shell prompt function.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="shell_saved_results"/><c>shell_saved_results = integer() >= 0</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Can be used to determine how many results are saved by the Erlang
          shell.</p>
      </item>
      <tag><marker id="shell_strings"/><c>shell_strings = boolean()</c></tag>
      <item>
        <p>Can be used to determine how the Erlang shell outputs lists of
          integers.</p>
      </item>
    </taglist>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <p><seefile marker="kernel:app"><c>app(4)</c></seefile>,
      <seeerl marker="kernel:application"><c>application(3)</c></seeerl>,
      <seeerl marker="shell">shell(3)</seeerl></p>
  </section>
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