 
 The test is performed by the function `erlang-test-criteria-list'.")
 
-(defvar erlang-next-lines-empty-threshold 2
-  "*Number of blank lines required to activate an electric command.
+(defcustom erlang-next-lines-empty-threshold 2
+  "Number of blank lines required to activate an electric command.
 
 Actually, this value controls the behaviour of the function
 `erlang-next-lines-empty-p' which normally is a member of the


To deactivate all electric commands, set this variable to nil.")

(defvar erlang-electric-newline-inhibit t
  "*Set to non-nil to inhibit newline after electric command.

This is useful since a lot of people press return after executing an
electric command.

  "The name of the inferior Erlang buffer.")

(defvar inferior-erlang-prompt-timeout 60
  "Number of seconds before `inferior-erlang-wait-prompt' timeouts.

The time specified is waited after every output made by the inferior
Erlang shell.  When this variable is t, we assume that we always have
