(viper)Useful Packages


Useful Packages
===============

   Some Emacs packages are mentioned here as an aid to the new Viper
user, to indicate what Viper is capable of.  A vast number comes with
the standard Emacs distribution, and many more exist on the net and on
the archives.

   This manual also mentions some Emacs features a new user should know
about.  The details of these are found in the GNU Emacs Manual.

   The features first.  For details, look up the Emacs Manual.

`Make'
     Makes and Compiles can be done from the editor.  Error messages
     will be parsed and you can move to the error lines.

`Shell'
     You can talk to Shells from inside the editor.  Your entire shell
     session can be treated as a file.

`Mail'
     Mail can be read from and sent within the editor.  Several
     sophisticated packages exist.

`Language Sensitive Editing'
     Editing modes are written for most computer languages in
     existence.  By controlling indentation, they catch punctuation
     errors.

   The packages, below, represents a drop in the sea of special-purpose
packages that come with standard distribution of Emacs.

`Transparent FTP'
     `ange-ftp.el' can ftp from the editor to files on other machines
     transparent to the user.

`RCS Interfaces'
     `vc.el' for doing RCS commands from inside the editor

`Directory Editor'
     `dired.el' for editing contents of directories and for navigating
     in the file system.

`Syntactic Highlighting'
     `font-lock.el' for automatic highlighting various parts of a buffer
     using different fonts and colors.

`Saving Emacs Configuration'
     `desktop.el' for saving/restoring configuration on Emacs
     exit/startup.

`Spell Checker'
     `ispell.el' for spell checking the buffer, words, regions, etc.

`File and Buffer Comparison'
     `ediff.el' for finding differences between files and for applying
     patches.

Emacs Lisp archives exist on `archive.cis.ohio-state.edu' and
`wuarchive.wustl.edu'

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