This looks like there were an initial '
or "
in the command line. So the shell is waiting for the second '
or "
which closes the atom or string declaration. It prints the evaluation result and is now ready for the next command.
Look at this example in the console (started with erl
):
Eshell V10.6.2 (abort with ^G)
1> io:format("Hello world!").
Hello world!ok
2> io:format("Hello world! ).
2> ".
* 2: syntax error before: '.'