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 * A project previously meant to replace the LCD is at
44 <URL:http://www.emacs.org/> but also seems to have maintenance
47 * The `Emacs Lisp List' at
48 <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/ell.html> has pointers
49 to sources of a large number of packages.
53 Packages posted to the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup (see
54 etc/MAILINGLISTS) might be archived specifically (try a web search
55 engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services.
57 * Maintenance versions of some packages distributed with Emacs
59 You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
61 * Ada: <URL:http://www.ada-france.org/ada-mode>
63 * Autorevert, CWarn and Follow:
64 <URL:http://www.andersl.com/emacs/>
66 * Battery and Info Look: <URL:ftp://ftp.ul.bawue.de/pub/purple/emacs>
69 <URL:http://www.ida.ing.tu-bs.de/people/dirk/bibtex/index.html>
71 * BS: <URL:http://home.netsurf.de/olaf.sylvester/emacs>
73 * Calculator: <URL:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/eli/misc/calculator.el>
75 * CC mode: <URL:http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/>
77 * CPerl: <URL:ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya>
79 * Ediff and Viper: <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/TechReports/kifer/>
82 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/>
84 * EShell: <URL:http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/emacs.html>
86 * EUDC: <URL:http://lspwww.epfl.ch/%7Efigueire/Software/eudc/>
88 * Expand: <URL:http://w3.teaser.fr/%7Eflepied/expand.el.gz>
90 * Etags: <URL:ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/>
93 <URL:http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Epetersen/emacs/find-func.el>
95 * Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>
97 * Fortune: <URL:http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eschauer/emacs.html>
99 * Gnus: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
101 * Ffap: <URL:http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/%7Emic/ftp/emacs/>
102 (And some addons for it.)
104 * Hideshow: <URL:http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/hideshow/>
106 * Ispell: <URL:http://www.kdstevens.com/%7Estevens/ispell-page.html>
108 * Iswitchb: <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/iswitchb.el>
110 * PC Selection: <URL:ftp://ftp.thp.uni-duisburg.de/pub/source/elisp/>
112 * PCL-CVS: <URL:ftp://rum.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs>
114 * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Ekleiweg/postscript/>
116 * PS-print: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpqd.com.br/pub/users/vinicius/>
118 * QuickURL: <URL:http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/archives/quickurl.el>
120 * RefTeX: <URL:http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Edominik/Tools/>
122 * Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
124 * SQL: <URL:http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html>
126 * Sregex: <URL:http://www.zanshin.com/%7Ebobg/sregex.html>
128 * Webjump: <URL:http://nwv.www.media.mit.edu/people/nwv/projects/webjump>
130 * Whitespace; <URL:http://www.dsmit.com/lisp/>
134 * (Tex)info files for use with Info-look that don't come from GNU
136 * Scheme: <URL:ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/scm/r5rs.info.tar.gz>
137 * LaTeX: <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/
138 latex2e.texi> (or CTAN mirrors)
139 * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/doc/manual/texinfo/perl5/> (or
142 * Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs
144 Various major packages or useful additions aren't distributed as part of
145 Emacs for various reasons, sometimes because their authors haven't made
146 a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in
149 You might like to check whether they are packaged for your system.
150 Several are for Debian GNU/Linux in particular.
152 * AUCTeX: fancy (La)TeX support: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/>
153 There's an AUCTeX mail list/newsgroup:
154 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.auctex>.
156 * BBDB: personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news:
157 <URL:http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/>
158 [You might want to set the coding system of your .bbdb file to
159 emacs-mule, say by adding `("\\.bbdb\\'" . emacs-mule)' to
160 `file-coding-system-alist' for non-ASCII characters.]
162 * Calc: computer algebra and numerical calculations:
163 <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
164 From GNU distribution mirrors.
166 * CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
167 <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/> and
168 mirrors of the `CTAN' TeX archives.
170 * Dismal: spreadsheet:
171 <URL:http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/
174 * EDB: database: <URL:ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/emacs/edb>
175 No longer maintained?
177 * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
178 <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
180 * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp:
181 <URL:http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/efs>
182 Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20.
184 * Elib library: <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/elib/elib.html>
185 From GNU distribution mirrors. (Much of this functionality is now
188 * Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
189 <URL:http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>
192 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
193 Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver. See also
194 <URL:http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/> for
195 other Friedman Emacs hacks.
198 <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib>
199 HTML-specific editing. Can work with PSGML.
201 * Hyperbole: `Hyperbole is an open, efficient, programmable
202 information management and hypertext system.'
203 From GNU distribution mirrors.
205 * ILISP: <URL:http://ilisp.cons.org/>
206 Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior
207 process running some form of Lisp.
209 * JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
210 Provides a Java-specific `Integrated Development Environment'.
212 * Mule-UCS: Universal enCoding System:
213 <URL:ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/>
214 Extended coding systems for Mule, specifically for reading and
215 writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode.
217 An alternative system for using UTF-8 is at
218 <URL:http://www.cs.uu.nl/%7Eotfried/Mule/>. This includes an
219 external program for (partial) inter-conversion of UTF-8.
222 <URL:http://www.pobox.com/%7Elbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html>
223 PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU
224 Privacy Guard, is a free replacement <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
226 * Pointers to MIME packages:
227 <URL:http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/%7Etrey/emacs/mime.html>
229 * PSGML: <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html>
230 DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing.
232 * Tamago: Chinese/Japanese/Korean input method
233 <URL:ftp://m17n.org/pub/tamago/>
234 Emacs Lisp package to provide input methods for CJK characters.
235 It can use these background conversion servers:
236 FreeWnn (jserver, cserver, tserver),
240 * VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
241 mail reader. There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
243 * W3: <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>
244 Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup
245 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3> and a W3 development mail
246 list/newsgroup <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3.dev>.
248 * X-Symbol: <URL:http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~wedler/x-symbol/emacs.html>
249 Quasi-WYSIWYG editing of TeX & al. (It will be improved to take
250 better advantage of Emacs 21 features.)