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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.  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
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
<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:

	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.

* 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
etc/MAILINGLISTS) might be archived specifically (try a web search
engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services.

* Maintenance versions of some packages distributed with Emacs

You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.

 * Ada: <URL:http://www.ada-france.org/ada-mode>

 * 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>

 * 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.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/TechReports/kifer/>

 * 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/>

 * Find Func:
   <URL:http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Epetersen/emacs/find-func.el>

 * Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>

 * 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/>

 * SQL: <URL:http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/emacs.html>

 * Sregex: <URL:http://www.zanshin.com/%7Ebobg/sregex.html>

 * Webjump: <URL:http://nwv.www.media.mit.edu/people/nwv/projects/webjump>

 * 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.cpan.org/CPAN/doc/manual/texinfo/perl5/> (or
   CPAN mirrors)

* 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.

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://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>
   From GNU distribution mirrors.

 * CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
   <URL:ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/> and
   mirrors of the `CTAN' TeX archives.

 * Dismal: spreadsheet:
   <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?

 * EIEIO (object system), ETalk (interface to Internet talk):
   <URL:ftp://www.ultranet.com/pub/zappo/>

 * EFS: enhanced version of ange-ftp:
   <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: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://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>

 * Gnuserv:
   <URL:ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/packages/fgnuserv-1.0.tar.gz>
   Enhanced emacsclient/emacsserver.  See also
   <URL:http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/> for
   other Friedman Emacs hacks.

 * hm--html-menus:
   <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib>
   HTML-specific editing.  Can work with PSGML.

 * Hyperbole: `Hyperbole is an open, efficient, programmable
   information management and hypertext system.'
   From GNU distribution mirrors.

 * ILISP: <URL:http://ilisp.cons.org/>
   Provides an interactive environment for manipulating an inferior
   process running some form of Lisp.

 * JDE: <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/>
   Provides a Java-specific `Integrated Development Environment'.

 * 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.

   An alternative system for using UTF-8 is at
   <URL:http://www.cs.uu.nl/%7Eotfried/Mule/>.  This includes an
   external program for (partial) inter-conversion of UTF-8.

 * 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 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.

 * 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

 * VM (View Mail): <URL:http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/> Alternative
   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>.

 * 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.)

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