Today, when printing an Erlang stacktrace, we return location information in a custom (PATH, line LINE) format. E.g.:

** exception error: bad argument
     in function  lists:member/2
        called as lists:member(1,not_a_list)
        *** argument 2: not a list
     in call from test:main/0 (test.erl, line 8)

A more common notation would be /path/to/filename:line_number, which is used in many programming tools and languages to specify a location in a file. This would also be in line with what the Erlang compiler returns:

erlc test.erl
test.erl:8:16: syntax error before:
%    8|   lists:member(1
%     |                ^

While the PATH:NUMBER does not seem to be an official standard, it's a widely adopted and understood convention across various development communities.

Switching to the new format would simplify a number of tasks. For example, terminals such as iTerm would recognize this as a link and would allow developers to jump to the correct line number from terminal with a single click.

This change will most likely break some tests, but before fixing them I'm opening the PR to check how open would you be to the change.