1 More Neat Stuff for your Emacs -*-mode: text; outline-minor-mode: t-*-
3 This file describes GNU Emacs programs and resources that are
4 maintained by other people. Some of these may become part of the
5 Emacs distribution in the future. Others we unfortunately can't
6 distribute, even though they are free software, because we lack legal
7 papers for copyright purposes. Also included are sites where
8 development versions of some packages distributed with Emacs may be
11 You might also look at the Emacs web page
12 <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html>. If you use the
13 Windows-32 version of Emacs, see the NTEmacs sites listed in the FAQ.
15 Please submit a but report if you find that any of the addresses
20 There is a large collection of Emacs Lisp code available for FTP at
21 ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu and various mirrors. Unfortunately its
22 maintenance is currently very slow. A project to replace it is
23 underway; see <URL:http://www.emacs.org/>.
25 To get started using this archive, do:
27 ftp ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu
29 Once you're in FTP, do
40 The lispdir.el package will help you search for useful packages in the
41 LCD-datafile, which is a list of the archive constants. It will even
42 fetch them for you on command.
44 * The `Emacs Lisp List' at
45 <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html> has pointers
46 to sources of a large number of packages.
50 Packages posted to the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup (see
51 etc/MAILINGLISTS) might be archived specifically (try a web search
52 engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services.
54 * Maintenance versions of some packages distributed with Emacs
56 You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
58 * Ada: <URL:http://ada.eu.org/ada-mode/>
60 * Autorevert and Follow:
61 <URL:http://www.andersl.com/emacs/>
63 * Battery and Info Look: <URL:ftp://ftp.ul.bawue.de/pub/purple/emacs>
66 <URL:http://www.ida.ing.tu-bs.de/people/dirk/bibtex/index.html>
68 * BS: <URL:http://home.netsurf.de/olaf.sylvester/emacs>
70 * CC Mode, ELP, Reporter, Supercite: <URL:http://www.python.org/emacs/>
71 Also home of Python Mode and possibly other good hacks.
73 * CPerl: <URL:ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya>
75 * Ediff and Viper: <URL:ftp://ftp.ca.sunysb.edu/pub/techreports/kifer/>
77 * Eldoc, Rlogin and Rsz-mini:
78 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/>
80 * EUDC: <URL:http://lspwww.epfl.ch/~figueire/Software/eudc/>
82 * Expand: <URL:http://w3.teaser.fr/%7Eflepied/expand.el.gz>
84 * Etags: <URL:ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/>
87 <URL:http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Epetersen/emacs/find-func.el>
89 * Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>
91 * Gnus home page: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
92 Native MIME support is in development at the time of writing.
94 * Ffap: <URL:http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/%7Emic/ftp/emacs/>
95 (And some addons for it.)
97 * Hideshow: <URL:http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/hideshow/>
99 * Ispell: <URL:http://www.kdstevens.com/%7Estevens/ispell-page.html>
101 * Iswitchb: <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/iswitchb.el>
103 * PC Selection: <URL:ftp://ftp.thp.uni-duisburg.de/pub/source/elisp/>
105 * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/postscript/>
107 * QuickURL: <URL:http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/archives/quickurl.el>
109 * RefTeX: <URL:http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Edominik/Tools/>
111 * Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
113 * SQL: <URL:http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html>
115 * Sregex: <URL:http://www.zanshin.com/%7Ebobg/sregex.html>
117 * Webjump: <URL:http://nwv.www.media.mit.edu/people/nwv/projects/webjump>
121 * (Tex)info files for use with Info-look that don't come from GNU
123 * Scheme: <URL:ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/scm/r5rs.info.tar.gz>
124 * LaTeX: <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/
125 latex2e.texi> (or CTAN mirrors)
126 * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/doc/manual/
127 texinfo/perl5/> (or CPAN mirrors)
129 * Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs
131 Various major packages or useful additions aren't distributed as part of
132 Emacs for various reasons, sometimes because their authors haven't made
133 a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in
136 * AUCTeX: fancy (La)TeX support: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/>
137 There's an AUCTeX mail list/newsgroup:
138 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.auctex>.
140 * BBDB: personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news:
141 <URL:http://pw2.netcom.com/%7Esimmonmt/bbdb/index.html>
143 * Calc: computer algebra and numerical calculations:
144 <URL:http:www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
145 From GNU distribution mirrors.
147 * CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
148 <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/> and
149 mirrors of the `CTAN' TeX archives.
151 * Dismal: spreadsheet:
152 <URL:http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/
155 * EDB: database: <URL:ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/emacs/edb>
156 No longer maintained?
158 * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
159 <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
161 * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp:
162 <URL:http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/efs>
163 Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20.
165 * Elib library: <URL:/software/elib/elib.html>
166 From GNU distribution mirrors.
168 * Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
169 <URL:http://simon.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html>
172 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
173 Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver. See also
174 <URL:http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/> for
175 other Friedman Emacs hacks.
178 <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib>
179 HTML-specific editing. Can work with PSGML.
181 * Hyperbole: `Hyperbole is an open, efficient, programmable
182 information management and hypertext system.'
183 From GNU distribution mirrors.
185 * ILISP: <URL:http://ilisp.cons.org/>
186 Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior
187 process running some form of Lisp.
189 * JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
190 Wrapper around Java development tools.
192 * MULE-UCS: Universal enCoding System
193 <URL:ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/mule/Mule-UCS/>:
194 Extended coding systems for MULE, specifically for reading and
195 writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode.
197 An alternative system for using UTF-8 is at
198 <URL:http://www.cs.ust.hk/%7Eotfried/Mule/>. This includes an
199 external program for (partial) inter-conversion of UTF-8.
202 <URL:http://www.pobox.com/%7Elbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html>
203 PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU
204 Privacy Guard, is under development as a free replacement
205 <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
207 * PCL-CVS: <URL:ftp://rum.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs>
208 Interface to CVS providing extended `vc-dired'-style functionality.
210 * Pointers to MIME packages:
211 <URL:http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/%7Etrey/emacs/mime.html>
213 * PSGML: <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html>
214 DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing.
216 * Tamago: Chinese/Japanese/Korean input method
217 <URL:ftp://m17n.org/pub/tamago/>
218 Emacs Lisp package to provide input methods for CJK characters.
219 It can use these background conversion servers:
220 FreeWnn (jserver, cserver, tserver),
225 <URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/os10000/stuff/todo.html>
226 Todo list maintenance, interfacing to Diary mode.
228 * VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
229 mail reader. There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
231 * W3: <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>
232 Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup
233 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3> and a W3 development mail
234 list/newsgroup <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3.dev>.
236 * Unpacked Emacs sources
238 An unpacked current source tree may be available from
239 <URL:ftp://ftp.emacs.org/pub/>.