1 More Neat Stuff for your Emacs
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 <URL:ftp://ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu> and various mirrors. At this time,
22 serious maintenance is resuming after a long hiatus.
24 To get started using this archive, do:
26 ftp ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu
28 Once you're in FTP, do
39 The lispdir.el package will help you search for useful packages in the
40 LCD-datafile, which is a list of the archive constants. It will even
41 fetch them for you on command.
43 * The `Emacs Lisp List' at
44 <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/ell.html> has pointers
45 to sources of a large number of packages.
49 Packages posted to the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup (see
50 etc/MAILINGLISTS) might be archived specifically (try a web search
51 engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services.
53 * Maintenance versions of some packages distributed with Emacs
55 You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
57 * Ada: <URL:http://www.ada-france.org/ada-mode>
59 * Autorevert, CWarn and Follow:
60 <URL:http://www.andersl.com/emacs/>
62 * Battery and Info Look: <URL:ftp://ftp.ul.bawue.de/pub/purple/emacs>
65 <URL:http://www.ida.ing.tu-bs.de/people/dirk/bibtex/index.html>
67 * BS: <URL:http://home.netsurf.de/olaf.sylvester/emacs>
69 * Calculator: <URL:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/eli/misc/calculator.el>
71 * CC mode: <URL:http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/>
73 * CPerl: <URL:ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya>
75 * Ediff and Viper: <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/TechReports/kifer/>
78 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/>
80 * EShell: <URL:http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/emacs.html>
82 * EUDC: <URL:http://lspwww.epfl.ch/%7Efigueire/Software/eudc/>
84 * Expand: <URL:http://w3.teaser.fr/%7Eflepied/expand.el.gz>
86 * Etags: <URL:ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/>
89 <URL:http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Epetersen/emacs/find-func.el>
91 * Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>
93 * Fortune: <URL:http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eschauer/emacs.html>
95 * Gnus: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
97 * Ffap: <URL:http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/%7Emic/ftp/emacs/>
98 (And some addons for it.)
100 * Hideshow: <URL:http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/hideshow/>
102 * Ispell: <URL:http://www.kdstevens.com/%7Estevens/ispell-page.html>
104 * Iswitchb: <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/iswitchb.el>
106 * PC Selection: <URL:ftp://ftp.thp.uni-duisburg.de/pub/source/elisp/>
108 * PCL-CVS: <URL:ftp://rum.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs>
110 * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Ekleiweg/postscript/>
112 * PS-print: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpqd.com.br/pub/users/vinicius/>
114 * QuickURL: <URL:http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/archives/quickurl.el>
116 * RefTeX: <URL:http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Edominik/Tools/>
118 * Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
120 * SQL: <URL:http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html>
122 * Sregex: <URL:http://www.zanshin.com/%7Ebobg/sregex.html>
124 * Webjump: <URL:http://nwv.www.media.mit.edu/people/nwv/projects/webjump>
126 * Whitespace; <URL:http://www.dsmit.com/lisp/>
130 * (Tex)info files for use with Info-look that don't come from GNU
132 * Scheme: <URL:ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/scm/r5rs.info.tar.gz>
133 * LaTeX: <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/
134 latex2e.texi> (or CTAN mirrors)
135 * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/doc/manual/texinfo/perl5/> (or
138 * Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs
140 Various major packages or useful additions aren't distributed as part of
141 Emacs for various reasons, sometimes because their authors haven't made
142 a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in
145 You might like to check whether they are packaged for your system.
146 Several are for Debian GNU/Linux in particular.
148 * AUCTeX: fancy (La)TeX support: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/>
149 There's an AUCTeX mail list/newsgroup:
150 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.auctex>.
152 * BBDB: personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news:
153 <URL:http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/>
154 [You might want to set the coding system of your .bbdb file to
155 emacs-mule, say by adding `("\\.bbdb\\'" . emacs-mule)' to
156 `file-coding-system-alist' for non-ASCII characters.]
158 * Calc: computer algebra and numerical calculations:
159 <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
160 From GNU distribution mirrors.
162 * CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
163 <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/> and
164 mirrors of the `CTAN' TeX archives.
166 * Dismal: spreadsheet:
167 <URL:http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/
171 <URL:http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/%7Emernst/software/edb-mrp.tar.gz>
174 * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
175 <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
177 * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp:
178 <URL:http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/efs>
179 Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20.
181 * Elib library: <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/elib/elib.html>
182 From GNU distribution mirrors. (Much of this functionality is now
185 * Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
186 <URL:http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>
189 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
190 Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver. See also
191 <URL:http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/> for
192 other Friedman Emacs hacks.
195 <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib>
196 HTML-specific editing. Can work with PSGML.
198 * Hyperbole: `Hyperbole is an open, efficient, programmable
199 information management and hypertext system.'
200 From GNU distribution mirrors.
202 * ILISP: <URL:http://ilisp.cons.org/>
203 Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior
204 process running some form of Lisp.
206 * JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
207 Provides a Java-specific `Integrated Development Environment'.
209 * Mule-UCS: Universal enCoding System:
210 <URL:ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/>
211 Extended coding systems for Mule, specifically for reading and
212 writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode. This does more than the built-in
216 <URL:http://www.pobox.com/%7Elbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html>
217 PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU
218 Privacy Guard, is a free replacement <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
220 * Pointers to MIME packages:
221 <URL:http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/%7Etrey/emacs/mime.html>
223 * PSGML: <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html>
224 DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing.
226 * Tamago: Chinese/Japanese/Korean input method
227 <URL:ftp://m17n.org/pub/tamago/>
228 Emacs Lisp package to provide input methods for CJK characters.
229 It can use these background conversion servers:
230 FreeWnn (jserver, cserver, tserver),
234 * Tramp: Remote file access via rsh/ssh
235 <URL:ftp://ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/tramp.tar.gz>
237 * VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
238 mail reader. There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
240 * W3: <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>
241 Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup
242 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3> and a W3 development mail
243 list/newsgroup <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3.dev>.
245 * X-Symbol: <URL:http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~wedler/x-symbol/emacs.html>
246 Quasi-WYSIWYG editing of TeX & al. (It will be improved to take
247 better advantage of Emacs 21 features.)