9. Major packages and programs
9.1 VM (View Mail) -- another mail reader within Emacs, with MIME support
- Author
- Kyle Jones
- Latest version
- 6.72
- Distribution
- ftp://ftp.wonderworks.com/pub/vm/vm.tar.gz
- Informational newsgroup/mailing list
- news:gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subscription requests to info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net
Submissions to info-vm@uunet.uu.net
- Bug reports newsgroup/mailing list
- news:gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Subscription requests to bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net
Submissions to bug-vm@uunet.uu.net
VM 6 works with Emacs 20.4, and may cause problems with Emacs 20.3 and
below. (But note that many people seem to use Emacs 20.3 with VM 6,
without any problems.) Risk-averse users might wish to try VM 5.97,
available from the same FTP
site.
9.2 Supercite -- mail and news citation package within Emacs
- Author
- Barry Warsaw
- Latest version
- 3.54 (comes bundled with Emacs 20)
- Distribution
- http://www.python.org/emacs/supercite.tar.gz
- Mailing list
- Subscription requests to supercite-request@python.org
Submissions supercite@python.org
Superyank is an old version of Supercite.
9.3 Calc -- poor man's Mathematica within Emacs
- Author
- Dave Gillespie
- Latest version
- 2.02f
- Distribution
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/calc/calc-2.02f.tar.gz
Note that Calc 2.02f needs patching to work with Emacs 21 and later.
Emacs 21.1 and later comes with a package called `calculator.el'.
It doesn't support all the mathematical wizardry offered by Calc, such
as matrices, special functions, and statistics, but is more than
adequate as a replacement for xcalc and similar programs.
9.4 VIPER -- vi emulation for Emacs
Since Emacs 19.29, the preferred vi emulation in Emacs is VIPER
(M-x viper-mode RET), which comes with Emacs. It extends
and supersedes VIP (including VIP 4.3) and provides vi emulation
at several levels, from one that closely follows vi to one that
departs from vi in several significant ways.
For Emacs 19.28 and earlier, the following version of VIP is generally
better than the one distributed with Emacs:
- Author
- Aamod Sane
- Latest version
- 4.3
- Distribution
- ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/emacs-lisp/modes/vip-mode.tar.Z
9.5 AUC TeX -- enhanced LaTeX mode with debugging facilities
- Authors
- Kresten Krab Thorup and
Per Abrahamsen
- Latest version
- 9.9p
- Distribution
- ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/packages/auctex/auctex.tar.gz
- Web site
- http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/
- Mailing list:
- Subscription requests to auc-tex-request@iesd.auc.dk
Submissions to auc-tex@iesd.auc.dk
Development team is at auc-tex_mgr@iesd.auc.dk
9.6 BBDB -- personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news readers
- Maintainer
- Matt Simmons
- Latest version
- 2.00
- Distribution
- http://www.netcom.com/~simmonmt/bbdb/index.html
- Mailing lists
- Subscription requests to info-bbdb-request@xemacs.org
Submissions to info-bbdb@xemacs.org
Release announcements: bbdb-announce-request@xemacs.org
9.7 Ispell -- spell checker in C with interface for Emacs
- Author
- Geoff Kuenning
- Latest version
- 3.1.20
- Distribution
- ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ispell/ispell-3.1.20.tar.gz
- Web site
- http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
-
Do not ask Geoff to send you the latest version of Ispell. He does not
have free e-mail.
-
This Ispell program is distinct from GNU Ispell 4.0. GNU Ispell 4.0 is
no longer a supported product.
9.8 w3-mode -- A World Wide Web browser inside of Emacs
- Author
- Bill Perry
- Latest version
- 4.0pre.39
- Distribution
- ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/w3.tar.gz
- Mailing lists
- Receive announcements from w3-announce-request@indiana.edu
Become a beta tester at w3-beta-request@indiana.edu
Help to develop w3-mode at w3-dev@indiana.edu
9.9 EDB -- Database program for Emacs; replaces forms editing modes
- Author
- Michael Ernst
- Latest version
- 1.21
- Distribution
- ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/emacs/edb
9.10 Mailcrypt -- PGP interface within Emacs mail and news
- Authors
- Patrick J. LoPresti and
Jin S. Choi
- Maintainer
- Len Budney
- Latest version
- 3.5.3
- Distribution
- http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt/mailcrypt-3.5.3.tar.gz
- Web site
- http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/mailcrypt.html
9.11 JDE -- Integrated development environment for Java
- Author
- Paul Kinnucan
- Mailing list
- jde-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk
- Latest version
- 2.1.1
- Web site
- http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/
9.12 Patch -- program to apply "diffs" for updating files
- Author
- Larry Wall (with GNU modifications)
- Latest version
- 2.5.4
- Distribution
- See section 8.5 Where can I get other up-to-date GNU stuff?.
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