A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.
Most of the following packages are available in MELPA. We recommend installing packages via it.
Table of Contents
- IDO -
[built-in]
Interactively do things with buffers and files. - Helm - A powerful completion and selection narrowing framework.
- Evil - An e xtensible vi l ayer: manipulate Emacs with Vi key binding.
- tabbar - Display a tab bar in the header line.
- sublimity - smooth-scrolling, minimap inspired by the sublime editor.
- smex - A smart M-x enhancement for Emacs.
- Dired+ - Functional & interface enhancement to dired.
- NeoTree - A emacs tree plugin like NERD tree for Vim.
- Helm-swoop - Efficiently jump between matched string/lines.
- Ace jump - A quick cursor jump mode.
- Minimap - A SublimeText-style minimap sidebar.
- window-numbering - Use
Alt + Number
to jump between window directly instead ofC-x o
cycle. - anzu - displays current match and total matches.
- goto-chg - Move point through buffer-undo-list positions.
- linum-relative - display relative line number in the left margin in emacs.
- Projectile - Project Interaction Library for Emacs.
- Prodigy - Manage external services from within Emacs.
- CEDET -
[built-in]
an advanced development environment in Emacs. - Xrefactory - A refactoring browser for Emacs.
- YASnippets - Template system.
- Helm-dash - Browse Dash docsets via Helm interface.
- Paredit - Minor mode for editing parentheses. (Suitable used in Lisp/Scheme/Clojure…etc.)
- evil-nerd-commenter - Comment/uncomment lines efficiently. Like Nerd Commenter in Vim. This program can be used independently without evil-mode.
- Auto-Completion - An intelligent auto-completion extension with great interface.
- Company - A text completion framework.
- hideshow -
[built-in]
Folding regions by balanced-expression code. - hideshowvis - Based on
hideshow
, just display its nodes on fringe.
- FlyMake -
[built-in]
on-the-fly syntax checks on files using external tools. - Flycheck - modern on-the-fly syntax checking meant to be a replacement to
FlyMake
- SLIME - A fully-functional IDE for Common Lisp development, with debugger, REPL.
- Quack - Enhanced Emacs Support for Editing and Running Scheme Code.
- Geiser - Intergrated development with Guile and Racket.
- js2-mode - Improved JavaScript editing mode.
- skewer-mode - live interact with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML in a web-browser.
- js-comint.el - Run an inferior javascript REPL process in Emacs.
- web-mode - major mode for editing various html templates (PHP, JSP, ASP, ERB…etc).
- SML mode - a major Emacs mode for editing Standard ML source code.
- undo-tree - Visualize the whole undo history in buffer as a tree, and you can access anywhere in it.
- highlight-symbol - Auto/manually highlight the same symbols in code, navigate in them, or replace string.
- rainbow-delimiters - Highlights parentheses, brackets, and braces according to their depth.
- visual-regexp - Replace via RegExp, with real-time visual feedback directly in the buffer.
- visual-regexp-steroids - The same as visual-regexp, but use modern regular expressions instead of Emacs-style.
- rainbow-mode -
[built-in]
Display color on color-code string (hex/rgb) directly. - whitespace -
[built-in]
Visualize blanks (tab/space/newline).
- Multiple cursors - Mark, edit multiple lines at once.
- pangu-spacing - Minor-mode to automatically add space between CJK and Latin characters.
- hungry-delete - Delete an entire block of whitespace at point.
- Drag Stuff - Drag Stuff is a minor mode for Emacs that makes it possible to drag stuff (words, region, lines) around in Emacs.
- Org -
[built-in]
Write notes, GTD, authoring, publish and wash dishes. - Emacs Muse - a publishing environment for Emacs.
- Magit - Interacting with git.
- git-gutter - Indicator the modified lines via git diff.
- git-timemachine - Step through historic versions of git controlled files.
- ack-and-a-half - Yet another emacs front-end to ack.
- full-ack - An Emacs front-end for ack.
- helm-ack - Use Ack with Helm interface.
- ag.el - An Emacs frontend to Ag (“the silver searcher” ack replacment)
- helm-ag - Ag with helm interface
- pt.el - An emacs front-end for Pt, the Platinum Searcher.
- google-this - A set of functions and bindings to google under point.
- google-translate - Interface to Google Translate.
- g-client - Google client for Emacs.
- AUCTeX - an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files.
- latex-preview-pane is a minor mode for Emacs that enables you to preview your LaTeX files directly in Emacs.
- Twittering mode - Major mode for twitter.
- ERC -
[built-in]
A powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client. - Riece - an IRC client for Emacs.
- Rcirc -
[built-in]
Next generation irc client.
- powerline - Emacs version of the Vim powerline.
- powerline-evil - Utilities for better Evil support for Powerline.
- package.el -
[built-in]
Install and manage Emacs packages easily. - el-get - apt-get style Emacs packages manager.
- Nyan-mode - Let Nyan Cat show you your buffer position in mode line.
- Zone Mode -
[built-in]
A buffer obfuscator, or a screensaver. - swimmers.el - An emacs screensaver.
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