summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2000-10-26 15:59:48 +0000
committerDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2000-10-26 15:59:48 +0000
commit8490337987c917ae1cbe892c34afcd588e14511c (patch)
treee7c1d1778044b1f19356d0ce8d71eb662669c35f
parentc13b0ec8531ee9afd0a83b98c3e4cd5bdffe9562 (diff)
downloademacs-8490337987c917ae1cbe892c34afcd588e14511c.tar.gz
Various updates.
-rw-r--r--etc/MORE.STUFF59
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/etc/MORE.STUFF b/etc/MORE.STUFF
index 1fa7a907e8b..3913262085a 100644
--- a/etc/MORE.STUFF
+++ b/etc/MORE.STUFF
@@ -18,9 +18,8 @@ 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. A project to replace it is
-underway; see <URL:http://www.emacs.org/>.
+<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:
@@ -41,8 +40,12 @@ 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/~stephen/emacs/ell.html> has pointers
+ <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/%7Estephen/emacs/ell.html> has pointers
to sources of a large number of packages.
* gnu.emacs.sources
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ engine) or retrievable from general Usenet archive services.
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, CWarn and Follow:
<URL:http://www.andersl.com/emacs/>
@@ -73,12 +76,14 @@ You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
* 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/>
- * EUDC: <URL:http://lspwww.epfl.ch/~figueire/Software/eudc/>
+ * 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>
@@ -89,10 +94,9 @@ You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
* Flyspell: <URL:http://kaolin.unice.fr/%7Eserrano/emacs/flyspell>
- * Fortune: <URL:http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~%7Eschauer/emacs.html>
+ * Fortune: <URL:http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eschauer/emacs.html>
- * Gnus home page: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
- Native MIME support is in development at the time of writing.
+ * Gnus: <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>
* Ffap: <URL:http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/%7Emic/ftp/emacs/>
(And some addons for it.)
@@ -107,7 +111,7 @@ You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
* PCL-CVS: <URL:ftp://rum.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs>
- * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/postscript/>
+ * PS mode: <URL:http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Ekleiweg/postscript/>
* PS-print: <URL:ftp://ftp.cpqd.com.br/pub/users/vinicius/>
@@ -132,8 +136,8 @@ You might find bug-fixes or enhancements in these places.
* 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
@@ -142,15 +146,21 @@ 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>
+ <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/calc/calc.html>
From GNU distribution mirrors.
* CJK-emacs: Converting MULE-encoded text to TeX:
@@ -172,7 +182,8 @@ the future.
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.
+ From GNU distribution mirrors. (Much of this functionality is now
+ in Emacs.)
* Emacspeak -- A Speech Output Subsystem For Emacs:
<URL:http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/>
@@ -196,22 +207,21 @@ the future.
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:
+ * Mule-UCS: Universal enCoding System:
<URL:ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/>
- Extended coding systems for MULE, specifically for reading and
+ 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.ust.hk/%7Eotfried/Mule/>. This includes an
+ <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 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>
@@ -235,11 +245,6 @@ the future.
<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
-
-An unpacked current source tree may be available from
-<URL:ftp://ftp.emacs.org/pub/>.
-
Local Variables:
mode: text