More Neat Stuff for your Emacs -*-mode: text; outline-minor-mode: t-*- This file describes GNU Emacs programs and resources that are maintained by other people. Some of these may become part of the Emacs distribution in the future. Also included are sites where development versions of some packages distributed with Emacs may be found. You might also look at the Emacs web page . If you use the Windows-32 version of Emacs, see the NTEmacs sites listed in the FAQ. Please submit a but report if you find that any of the addresses listed here fail. * The LCD archive There is a large collection of Emacs Lisp code available for FTP at ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu and various mirrors. Unfortunately its maintenance is currently very slow. To get started using this archive, do: ftp ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu Once you're in FTP, do cd pub/emacs-lisp bin get lispdir.el.Z get LCD-datafile.Z and exit. Then do: gunzip *.Z The lispdir.el package will help you search for useful packages in the LCD-datafile, which is a list of the archive constants. It will even fetch them for you on command. * gnu.emacs.sources Packages posted to the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup (see etc/MAILINGLISTS) might be archived specifically (try a web search engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services. * Maintenace versions of some packages distributed with Emacs You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places. * Autorevert: * Battery and Info Look: * BibTeX: * CC Mode, ELP, Reporter, Supercite: Also home of Python Mode and possibly other good hacks. * CPerl: * Crisp mode, Scroll Lock mode: * Ediff and Viper: * Eldoc, Rlogin and Rsz-mini: * Elint: * Expand: * Etags: * Find Func: * Flyspell: * Gnus home page: Native MIME support is in development at the time of writing. * Ffap: (And some addons for it.) * Follow: * Ispell: * Iswitchb: * PC Selection: * Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: * Sregex: * Webjump: * Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs Various major packages or useful additions aren't distributed as part of Emacs for various reasons, sometimes because their authors haven't made a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in the future. * AUCTeX: fancy (La)TeX support: There's an AUCTeX mail list/newsgroup: . * BBDB: personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news: * Calc: computer algebra and numerical calculations: From GNU distribution mirrors. * Dismal: spreadsheet: * EDB: database: No longer maintained? * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk): * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp: Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20. * Elib library: From GNU distribution mirrors. * Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs: * Erik Naggum's hacks: * Gnuserv: Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver. See also for other Friedman Emacs hacks. * hm--html-menus: HTML-specific editing. Can work with PSGML. * ILISP: Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior process running some form of Lisp. Reported to have a problem with Emacs 20. * JDE: Wrapper around Java development tools. * Mailcrypt: PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, is under development as a free replacement. * Pointers to MIME packages: * PSGML: DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing. The 1.1 series (still in the ALPHA directory at the time of writing) fixes a bug which causes problems with Emacs 20.3 and later. * Todo mode: Todo list maintenance, interfacing to Diary mode. * VM (View Mail): Alternative mail reader. Apparently not currently supported under Emacs 20. There is a VM newsgroup: * W3: Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup and a W3 development mail list/newsgroup . * Unpacked Emacs sources Erik Naggum maintains an unpacked copy of the Emacs distribution , which may be useful for checking something in a later release without downloading the whole distribution.