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://www.ada-france.org/ada-mode>
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 * EUDC: <URL:http://lspwww.epfl.ch/%7Efigueire/Software/eudc/>
59 * Expand: <URL:http://w3.teaser.fr/%7Eflepied/expand.el.gz>
61 * Etags: <URL:ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/>
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 * PCL-CVS: <URL:ftp://rum.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs>
85 * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Ekleiweg/postscript/>
87 * PS-print: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpqd.com.br/pub/users/vinicius/>
89 * QuickURL: <URL:http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/archives/quickurl.el>
91 * RefTeX: <URL:http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Edominik/Tools/>
93 * Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
95 * SQL: <URL:http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html>
97 * Sregex: <URL:http://www.zanshin.com/%7Ebobg/sregex.html>
99 * Webjump: <URL:http://nwv.www.media.mit.edu/people/nwv/projects/webjump>
101 * Whitespace; <URL:http://www.dsmit.com/lisp/>
105 * (Tex)info files for use with Info-look that don't come from GNU
107 * Scheme: <URL:ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/scm/r5rs.info.tar.gz>
108 * LaTeX: <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/
109 latex2e.texi> (or CTAN mirrors)
110 * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/doc/manual/texinfo/perl5/> (or
113 * Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs
115 Various major packages or useful additions aren't distributed as part of
116 Emacs for various reasons, sometimes because their authors haven't made
117 a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in
120 You might like to check whether they are packaged for your system.
121 Several are for Debian GNU/Linux in particular.
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://bbdb.sourceforge.net/>
129 [You might want to set the coding system of your .bbdb file to
130 emacs-mule, say by adding `("\\.bbdb\\'" . emacs-mule)' to
131 `file-coding-system-alist' for non-ASCII characters.]
133 * Calc: computer algebra and numerical calculations:
134 <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
135 From GNU distribution mirrors.
137 * CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
138 <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/> and
139 mirrors of the `CTAN' TeX archives.
141 * Dismal: spreadsheet:
142 <URL:http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/
146 <URL:http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/%7Emernst/software/edb-mrp.tar.gz>
149 * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
150 <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
152 * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp:
153 <URL:http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/efs>
154 Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20.
156 * Elib library: <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/elib/elib.html>
157 From GNU distribution mirrors. (Much of this functionality is now
160 * Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
161 <URL:http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>
164 <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
165 Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver. See also
166 <URL:http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/> for
167 other Friedman Emacs hacks.
169 The latest versions of gnuserv are maintained by Martin Schwenke,
170 and are available from <URL:http://meltin.net/hacks/emacs/>. Also
171 available from this Web page: eiffel-mode.el.
174 <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib>
175 HTML-specific editing. Can work with PSGML.
177 * Hyperbole: `Hyperbole is an open, efficient, programmable
178 information management and hypertext system.'
179 From GNU distribution mirrors.
181 * ILISP: <URL:http://ilisp.cons.org/>
182 Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior
183 process running some form of Lisp.
185 * JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
186 Provides a Java-specific `Integrated Development Environment'.
188 * Mule-UCS: Universal enCoding System:
189 <URL:ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/>
190 Extended coding systems for Mule, specifically for reading and
191 writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode. This does more than the built-in
195 <URL:http://www.pobox.com/%7Elbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html>
196 PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU
197 Privacy Guard, is a free replacement <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
199 * Pointers to MIME packages:
200 <URL:http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/%7Etrey/emacs/mime.html>
202 * PSGML: <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html>
203 DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing.
205 * Tamago: Chinese/Japanese/Korean input method
206 <URL:ftp://m17n.org/pub/tamago/>
207 Emacs Lisp package to provide input methods for CJK characters.
208 It can use these background conversion servers:
209 FreeWnn (jserver, cserver, tserver),
213 * Tramp: Remote file access via rsh/ssh
214 <URL:ftp://ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/tramp.tar.gz>
216 * VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
217 mail reader. There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
219 * W3: <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>
220 Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup
221 <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3> and a W3 development mail
222 list/newsgroup <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3.dev>.
224 * X-Symbol: <URL:http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~wedler/x-symbol/emacs.html>
225 Quasi-WYSIWYG editing of TeX & al. (It will be improved to take
226 better advantage of Emacs 21 features.)