-More Neat Stuff for your Emacs -*-mode: text; outline-minor-mode: t-*-
+More Neat Stuff for your Emacs
-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.
+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. Others we unfortunately can't
+distribute, even though they are free software, because we lack legal
+papers for copyright purposes. 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
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html>. If you use the
* 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.
+<URL:ftp://ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu> and various mirrors. At this time,
+serious maintenance is resuming after a long hiatus.
To get started using this archive, do:
LCD-datafile, which is a list of the archive constants. It will even
fetch them for you on command.
+* A project previously meant to replace the LCD is at
+ <URL:http://www.emacs.org/> but also seems to have maintenance
+ problems at present.
+
+* The `Emacs Lisp List' at
+ <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/ell.html> has pointers
+ to sources of a large number of packages.
+
* gnu.emacs.sources
Packages posted to the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup (see
You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
- * Ada: <URL:http://ada.eu.org/ada-mode/>
+ * Ada: <URL:http://www.ada-france.org/ada-mode>
- * Autorevert and Follow:
+ * Autorevert, CWarn and Follow:
<URL:http://www.andersl.com/emacs/>
* Battery and Info Look: <URL:ftp://ftp.ul.bawue.de/pub/purple/emacs>
* BibTeX:
<URL:http://www.ida.ing.tu-bs.de/people/dirk/bibtex/index.html>
- * CC Mode, ELP, Reporter, Supercite: <URL:http://www.python.org/emacs/>
- Also home of Python Mode and possibly other good hacks.
+ * BS: <URL:http://home.netsurf.de/olaf.sylvester/emacs>
+
+ * Calculator: <URL:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/eli/misc/calculator.el>
+
+ * CC mode: <URL:http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/>
* CPerl: <URL:ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya>
- * Ediff and Viper: <URL:ftp://ftp.ca.sunysb.edu/pub/techreports/kifer/>
+ * Ediff and Viper: <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/TechReports/kifer/>
- * Eldoc, Rlogin and Rsz-mini:
+ * Eldoc and Rlogin:
<URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/>
+ * EShell: <URL:http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/emacs.html>
+
+ * EUDC: <URL:http://lspwww.epfl.ch/%7Efigueire/Software/eudc/>
+
* Expand: <URL:http://w3.teaser.fr/%7Eflepied/expand.el.gz>
* Etags: <URL:ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/>
* Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>
- * Gnus home page: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
- Native MIME support is in development at the time of writing.
+ * Fortune: <URL:http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eschauer/emacs.html>
+
+ * Gnus: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
* Ffap: <URL:http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/%7Emic/ftp/emacs/>
(And some addons for it.)
+ * Hideshow: <URL:http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/hideshow/>
+
* Ispell: <URL:http://www.kdstevens.com/%7Estevens/ispell-page.html>
* Iswitchb: <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/iswitchb.el>
* PC Selection: <URL:ftp://ftp.thp.uni-duisburg.de/pub/source/elisp/>
+ * PCL-CVS: <URL:ftp://rum.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs>
+
+ * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Ekleiweg/postscript/>
+
+ * PS-print: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpqd.com.br/pub/users/vinicius/>
+
+ * QuickURL: <URL:http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/archives/quickurl.el>
+
* RefTeX: <URL:http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Edominik/Tools/>
* Speedbar, Checkdoc etc: <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
* Webjump: <URL:http://nwv.www.media.mit.edu/people/nwv/projects/webjump>
-*Auxilliary files
+ * Whitespace; <URL:http://www.dsmit.com/lisp/>
+
+* Auxilliary files
* (Tex)info files for use with Info-look that don't come from GNU
packages:
* Scheme: <URL:ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/scm/r5rs.info.tar.gz>
* LaTeX: <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/
latex2e.texi> (or CTAN mirrors)
- * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/doc/manual/
- texinfo/perl5/> (or CPAN mirrors)
+ * Perl: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/doc/manual/texinfo/perl5/> (or
+ CPAN mirrors)
* Packages and add-ons not bundled with Emacs
a copyright assignment to the FSF. Some of them may be integrated in
the future.
+You might like to check whether they are packaged for your system.
+Several are for Debian GNU/Linux in particular.
+
* AUCTeX: fancy (La)TeX support: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/>
There's an AUCTeX mail list/newsgroup:
<URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.auctex>.
* BBDB: personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news:
- <URL:http://pw2.netcom.com/%7Esimmonmt/bbdb/index.html>
+ <URL:http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/>
+ [You might want to set the coding system of your .bbdb file to
+ emacs-mule, say by adding `("\\.bbdb\\'" . emacs-mule)' to
+ `file-coding-system-alist' for non-ASCII characters.]
* Calc: computer algebra and numerical calculations:
- <URL:http:www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
+ <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
From GNU distribution mirrors.
* CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
<URL:http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/
dismal.html>
- * EDB: database: <URL:ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/emacs/edb>
- No longer maintained?
+ * EDB: database:
+ <URL:http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/%7Emernst/software/edb-mrp.tar.gz>
+ Not maintained?
* EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
<URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>
<URL:http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/efs>
Version 1.16 is said not to work properly with Emacs 20.
- * Elib library: <URL:/software/elib/elib.html>
- From GNU distribution mirrors.
+ * Elib library: <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/elib/elib.html>
+ From GNU distribution mirrors. (Much of this functionality is now
+ in Emacs.)
* Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
- <URL:http://simon.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html>
-
- * Erik Naggum's hacks: <URL:ftp://ftp.naggum.no/emacs/>
+ <URL:http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>
* Gnuserv:
<URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
process running some form of Lisp.
* JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
- Wrapper around Java development tools.
+ Provides a Java-specific `Integrated Development Environment'.
- * MULE-UCS: Universal enCoding System
- <URL:ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/mule-ucs/himi/>:
- Extended coding systems for MULE, specifically for reading and
- writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode.
+ * Mule-UCS: Universal enCoding System:
+ <URL:ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/>
+ Extended coding systems for Mule, specifically for reading and
+ writing UTF-8 encoded Unicode. This does more than the built-in
+ utf-8 coding system.
* Mailcrypt:
<URL:http://www.pobox.com/%7Elbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html>
PGP and GPG support. PGP isn't free software, but GPG, the GNU
- Privacy Guard, is under development as a free replacement
- <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
+ Privacy Guard, is a free replacement <URL:http://www.gnupg.org/>.
* Pointers to MIME packages:
<URL:http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/%7Etrey/emacs/mime.html>
* PSGML: <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html>
DTD-aware serious SGML/XML editing.
- * Todo mode:
- <URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/os10000/stuff/todo.html>
- Todo list maintenance, interfacing to Diary mode.
+ * Tamago: Chinese/Japanese/Korean input method
+ <URL:ftp://m17n.org/pub/tamago/>
+ Emacs Lisp package to provide input methods for CJK characters.
+ It can use these background conversion servers:
+ FreeWnn (jserver, cserver, tserver),
+ Wnn6,
+ SJ3 Ver.2
+
+ * Tramp: Remote file access via rsh/ssh
+ <URL:ftp://ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/tramp.tar.gz>
* VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
- mail reader. Apparently not currently supported under Emacs 20.
- There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
+ mail reader. There is a VM newsgroup: <URL:news:gnu.emacs.vm.info>
* W3: <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>
Web browser. There's a W3 mail list/newsgroup
<URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3> and a W3 development mail
list/newsgroup <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.w3.dev>.
-* Unpacked Emacs sources
+ * X-Symbol: <URL:http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~wedler/x-symbol/emacs.html>
+ Quasi-WYSIWYG editing of TeX & al. (It will be improved to take
+ better advantage of Emacs 21 features.)
-Erik Naggum maintains an unpacked copy of the Emacs distribution
-<URL:ftp://ftp.uio.no/pub/emacs/>, which may be useful for checking
-something in a later release without downloading the whole distribution.
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