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.
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.
45 Packages posted to the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup (see
46 etc/MAILINGLISTS) might be archived specifically (try a web search
47 engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services.
49 * Maintenance versions of some packages distributed with Emacs
51 You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
53 * Ada: <URL:http://ada.eu.org/ada-mode/>
55 * Autorevert and Follow:
56 <URL:http://www.andersl.com/emacs/>
58 * Battery and Info Look: <URL:ftp://ftp.ul.bawue.de/pub/purple/emacs>
61 <URL:http://www.ida.ing.tu-bs.de/people/dirk/bibtex/index.html>
63 * CC Mode, ELP, Reporter, Supercite: <URL:http://www.python.org/emacs/>
64 Also home of Python Mode and possibly other good hacks.
66 * CPerl: <URL:ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya>
68 * Ediff and Viper: <URL:ftp://ftp.ca.sunysb.edu/pub/techreports/kifer/>
70 * Eldoc, Rlogin and Rsz-mini:
71 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/>
73 * Expand: <URL:http://w3.teaser.fr/%7Eflepied/expand.el.gz>
75 * Etags: <URL:ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/>
78 <URL:http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Epetersen/emacs/find-func.el>
80 * Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>
82 * Gnus home page: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
83 Native MIME support is in development at the time of writing.
85 * Ffap: <URL:http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/%7Emic/ftp/emacs/>
86 (And some addons for it.)
88 * Ispell: <URL:http://www.kdstevens.com/%7Estevens/ispell-page.html>
90 * Iswitchb: <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/iswitchb.el>
92 * PC Selection: <URL:ftp://ftp.thp.uni-duisburg.de/pub/source/elisp/>
94 * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/postscript/>
96 * RefTeX: <URL:http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Edominik/Tools/>
98 * Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
100 * SQL: <URL:http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html>
102 * Sregex: <URL:http://www.zanshin.com/%7Ebobg/sregex.html>
104 * Webjump: <URL:http://nwv.www.media.mit.edu/people/nwv/projects/webjump>
108 * (Tex)info files for use with Info-look that don't come from GNU
110 * Scheme: <URL:ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/scm/r5rs.info.tar.gz>
111 * LaTeX: <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/
112 latex2e.texi> (or CTAN mirrors)
113 * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/doc/manual/
114 texinfo/perl5/> (or CPAN mirrors)
116 * Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs
118 Various major packages or useful additions aren't distributed as part of
119 Emacs for various reasons, sometimes because their authors haven't made
120 a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in
123 * AUCTeX: fancy (La)TeX support: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/>
124 There's an AUCTeX mail list/newsgroup:
125 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.auctex>.
127 * BBDB: personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news:
128 <URL:http://pw2.netcom.com/%7Esimmonmt/bbdb/index.html>
130 * Calc: computer algebra and numerical calculations:
131 <URL:http:www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
132 From GNU distribution mirrors.
134 * CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
135 <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/> and
136 mirrors of the `CTAN' TeX archives.
138 * Dismal: spreadsheet:
139 <URL:http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/
142 * EDB: database: <URL:ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/emacs/edb>
143 No longer maintained?
145 * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
146 <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
148 * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp:
149 <URL:http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/efs>
150 Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20.
152 * Elib library: <URL:/software/elib/elib.html>
153 From GNU distribution mirrors.
155 * Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
156 <URL:http://simon.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html>
158 * Erik Naggum's hacks: <URL:ftp://ftp.naggum.no/emacs/>
161 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
162 Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver. See also
163 <URL:http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/> for
164 other Friedman Emacs hacks.
167 <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib>
168 HTML-specific editing. Can work with PSGML.
170 * Hyperbole: `Hyperbole is an open, efficient, programmable
171 information management and hypertext system.'
172 From GNU distribution mirrors.
174 * ILISP: <URL:http://ilisp.cons.org/>
175 Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior
176 process running some form of Lisp.
178 * JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
179 Wrapper around Java development tools.
181 * MULE-UCS: Universal enCoding System
182 <URL:ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/mule-ucs/himi/>:
183 Extended coding systems for MULE, specifically for reading and
184 writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode.
186 An alternative system for using UTF-8 is at
187 <URL:http://www.cs.ust.hk/%7Eotfried/Mule/>. This includes an
188 external program for (partial) inter-conversion of UTF-8.
191 <URL:http://www.pobox.com/%7Elbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html>
192 PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU
193 Privacy Guard, is under development as a free replacement
194 <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
196 * Pointers to MIME packages:
197 <URL:http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/%7Etrey/emacs/mime.html>
199 * PSGML: <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html>
200 DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing.
203 <URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/os10000/stuff/todo.html>
204 Todo list maintenance, interfacing to Diary mode.
206 * VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
207 mail reader. There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
209 * W3: <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>
210 Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup
211 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3> and a W3 development mail
212 list/newsgroup <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3.dev>.
214 * Unpacked Emacs sources
216 An unpacked current source tree is available from
217 <URL:ftp://ftp.emacs.org/pub/>.