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 bug report if you find that any of the addresses
18 * The `Emacs Lisp List' at
19 <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/ell.html> has pointers
20 to sources of a large number of packages.
24 Packages posted to the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup (see
25 etc/MAILINGLISTS) might be archived specifically (try a web search
26 engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services.
28 * Maintenance versions of some packages distributed with Emacs
30 You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
32 * Ada: <URL:http://libre.act-europe.fr/adamode>
34 * Autorevert, CWarn and Follow:
35 <URL:http://www.andersl.com/emacs/>
37 * Battery and Info Look: <URL:ftp://ftp.ul.bawue.de/pub/purple/emacs>
40 <URL:http://www.ida.ing.tu-bs.de/people/dirk/bibtex/index.html>
42 * BS: <URL:http://home.netsurf.de/olaf.sylvester/emacs>
44 * Calculator: <URL:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/eli/misc/calculator.el>
46 * CC mode: <URL:http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/>
48 * CPerl: <URL:ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya>
50 * Ediff and Viper: <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/TechReports/kifer/>
53 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/>
55 * EShell: <URL:http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/emacs.html>
57 * Etags: <URL:ftp://pot.potorti.it/pub/software/unix/etags.tar.gz>
59 * EUDC: <URL:http://lspwww.epfl.ch/%7Efigueire/Software/eudc/>
61 * Expand: <URL:http://w3.teaser.fr/%7Eflepied/expand.el.gz>
64 <URL:http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Epetersen/emacs/find-func.el>
66 * Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>
68 * Fortune: <URL:http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eschauer/emacs.html>
70 * Gnus: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
72 * Ffap: <URL:http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/%7Emic/ftp/emacs/>
73 (And some addons for it.)
75 * Hideshow: <URL:http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/hideshow/>
77 * Ispell: <URL:http://www.kdstevens.com/%7Estevens/ispell-page.html>
79 * Iswitchb: <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/iswitchb.el>
81 * PC Selection: <URL:ftp://ftp.thp.uni-duisburg.de/pub/source/elisp/>
83 * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Ekleiweg/postscript/>
85 * PS-print: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpqd.com.br/pub/users/vinicius/>
87 * QuickURL: <URL:http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/archives/quickurl.el>
89 * RefTeX: <URL:http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Edominik/Tools/>
91 * Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
93 * SQL: <URL:http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html>
95 * Sregex: <URL:http://www.zanshin.com/%7Ebobg/sregex.html>
97 * Webjump: <URL:http://www.neilvandyke.org/webjump>
99 * Whitespace: <URL:http://www.dsmit.com/lisp/>
103 * (Tex)info files for use with Info-look that don't come from GNU
105 * Scheme: <URL:ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/scm/r5rs.info.tar.gz>
106 * LaTeX: <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/
107 latex2e.texi> (or CTAN mirrors)
108 * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/doc/manual/texinfo/perl5/>
111 * Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs
113 Various major packages or useful additions aren't distributed as part of
114 Emacs for various reasons, sometimes because their authors haven't made
115 a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in
118 You might like to check whether they are packaged for your system.
119 Several are for Debian GNU/Linux in particular.
121 * AUCTeX: fancy (La)TeX support: <URL:http://sunsite.dk/auctex/>
122 There's an AUCTeX mail list/newsgroup:
123 <URL:news://sunsite.dk/emacs.auctex>.
125 * BBDB: personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news:
126 <URL:http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/>
127 [You might want to set the coding system of your .bbdb file to
128 emacs-mule, say by adding `("\\.bbdb\\'" . emacs-mule)' to
129 `file-coding-system-alist' for non-ASCII characters.]
131 * CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
132 <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/> and
133 mirrors of the `CTAN' TeX archives.
135 * Dismal: spreadsheet:
136 <URL:http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/
140 <URL:http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/%7Emernst/software/edb-mrp.tar.gz>
143 * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
144 <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
146 * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp:
147 <URL:http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/efs>
148 Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20.
150 * Elib library: <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/elib/elib.html>
151 From GNU distribution mirrors. (Much of this functionality is now
154 * Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
155 <URL:http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>
158 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
159 Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver. See also
160 <URL:http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/> for
161 other Friedman Emacs hacks.
163 The latest versions of gnuserv are maintained by Martin Schwenke,
164 and are available from <URL:http://meltin.net/hacks/emacs/>. Also
165 available from this Web page: eiffel-mode.el.
168 <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib>
169 HTML-specific editing. Can work with PSGML.
171 * Hyperbole: `Hyperbole is an open, efficient, programmable
172 information management and hypertext system.'
173 From GNU distribution mirrors.
175 * ILISP: <URL:http://ilisp.cons.org/>
176 Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior
177 process running some form of Lisp.
179 * JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
180 Provides a Java-specific `Integrated Development Environment'.
182 * Mule-UCS: Universal enCoding System:
183 <URL:ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/>
184 Extended coding systems for Mule, specifically for reading and
185 writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode. This does more than the built-in
189 <URL:http://www.pobox.com/%7Elbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html>
190 PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU
191 Privacy Guard, is a free replacement <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
193 * Pointers to MIME packages:
194 <URL:http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/%7Etrey/emacs/mime.html>
196 * PSGML: <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html>
197 DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing.
199 * Tamago: Chinese/Japanese/Korean input method
200 <URL:ftp://m17n.org/pub/tamago/>
201 Emacs Lisp package to provide input methods for CJK characters.
202 It can use these background conversion servers:
203 FreeWnn (jserver, cserver, tserver),
207 * Tramp: Remote file access via rsh/ssh
208 <URL:ftp://ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/tramp.tar.gz>
210 * VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
211 mail reader. There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
213 * W3: <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>
214 Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup
215 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3> and a W3 development mail
216 list/newsgroup <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3.dev>.
218 * X-Symbol: <URL:http://x-symbol.sf.net/>
219 Quasi-WYSIWYG editing of TeX & al. (It will be improved to take
220 better advantage of Emacs 21 features.)