Appendix D. Online Resources

This appendix includes some helpful Emacs web sites. Some of those listed describe add-on packages for Emacs. In some cases, the sites have been stable for years and are likely to remain that way. In other cases, web sites come and go and URLs change. If you find errors in this list or have suggestions for additions, please email us at [e-mail].

Table D-1. Emacs web sites

Web site	URL
The Free Software Foundation	http://www.fsf.org/
The official web site for GNU Emacs	http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
The GNU General Public License	http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
The web site for this book	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnu3/
The very unofficial dotemacs home (great collection of .emacs files to aid you in creating your own)	http://www.dotemacs.de/
Dotfiles.com (includes dot files for other applications as well as Emacs)	http://www.dotfiles.com/
The Emacs Wiki	http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki /
Emacs Haiku	http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/haiku-2.txt
Emacs implementations	http://www.finseth.com/~fin/emacs.html
David Wheeler's essay arguing for a GPL-compatible license for open source projects	http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html

Table D-2. Platform and accessibility-related web sites

Web site	URL
FSF's download site for Emacs for Unix and Windows	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/
Andrew Choi's Mac OS X FAQ and build instructions	http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/ http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/obtaining-andbuilding.html
Alex Rice's Mac OS X build	http://mindlube.com/products/emacs/index.html
Fink, a Unix software installer for Mac OS X	http://fink.sourceforge.net/
John Schneider's "Getting Mac OS X.3 toBehave Almost Like My Linux Boxes"	http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~schneidj/mac-osx-10.3.html
Nqmacs, a Windows Emacs binary	http://sourceforge.net/projects/nqmacs/
Cygwin: Unix commands for Windows	http://www.cygwin.com/
Ngai Kim Hoong's page relating to Emacs and Cygwin (even Emacs and Palm Pilots)	http://www.khngai.com/emacs/
Kim Storm's CUA mode	http://www.cua.dk/emacs.html/
Emacspeak (an audio interface to Emacs)	http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

Table D-3. Text-related sites

Web site	URL
Ispell FAQ	http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-faq.html
Raymond Zeitler's post pointing to the right version of Ispell for Windows	http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/help-emacs-windows/2004-06/msg00023.html
Eric Pement's "Understanding GNU Emacs and Tabs" page	http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/emacs_tabs.htm
Eric Pement's awk scripts for converting to outline mode outlines to classical outline formats	http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/awk/outline_classic11.awk.txt http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/awk/outline_numbered11.awk.txt
ASCII art (fun with picture mode)	http://www.ascii-art.de/

Table D-4. Programming languages, version control, and customization sites

Web site	URL
CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)	http://www.cpan.org/
Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools (CEDET)	http://cedet.sourceforge.net/
JDEE site	http://jdee.sunsite.dk/
PHP mode	http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/
Subversion	http://subversion.tigris.org
Clearcase extensions (clearcase.el)	http://members.verizon.net/~vze24fr2/EmacsClearCase/

Table D-5. Markup language-related sites

Web site	URL
psgml mode	http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html
psgml setup instructions from OpenACS	http://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-0-0/psgml-mode.html
Norm Walsh's DocBook site	http://www.docbook.org/
TEI Emacs (also includes JDEE for Linux and Windows)	http://www.tei-c.org/Software/tei-emacs/
Jim Clark's nxml mode	http://thaiopensource.com/download/
Nxml mode mailing list	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emacs-nxml-mode/
RELAX NG	http://www.relaxng.org/
HTML helper mode	http://www.nongnu.org/baol-hth/
HTMLModeDeluxe	http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HtmlModeDeluxe/
Darren Brierton's Emacs WebDev Environment	http://www.dzr-web.com/people/darren/projects/emacs-webdev/