I'm surprised he got Erlide and Eurlybird to run. I couldn't get either on my install on Netbeans or Eclipse. I've given up and am going to learn Vi to edit erlang in.
I strongly recommend emacs with erlang-mode over vi for Erlang editing. I was a 100% vi user before I started with Erlang, and I can tell you that using emacs for editing Erlang is so much more fluid.