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Emacs can be downloaded from the GNU FTP or a GNU mirror listed on the , and/or using the MSYS2 pacman manager. Another option is to install emacs via the Chocolatey or scoop Windows package managers. A default install of Windows does not contain emacs.

A startup dashboard which provides certain information about your recent Emacs activities.

An enchancement of the Emacs built-in help system.

smooth-scrolling, minimap inspired by the sublime editor.

Session manager, saves all your opened buffers, their location and sizes on disk to restore later.

Replace GUI popup menu with something more efficient.

display relative line number in the left margin in emacs.

Never lose your cursor again.

Highlights current line, an minimal alternative to beacon.

Yet Another Scroll Bar Mode.

Minor mode for visual feedback on some operations in Emacs.

Project relative buffer names with optional path abbreviation.

Highly customizable startup screen for Emacs.

A package that allows disabling mouse input in Emacs. It can help prevent accidental clicks or be used to reinforce a keyboard-centric workflow.

Show information on the side.

Line annotation for changed and saved lines.

Quickly switch windows.

Move or swap buffer to other window.

Aesthetic, functional tabs plugin with icons and styles, Helm, Ivy and Projectile integration, supported by many popular themes.

Display a tab bar in the header line.

Out of box extension to use tab in Emacs. grouping buffers by projects and many awesome features.

Makes Emacs' built-in tab-bar look like Vim's tabbed browsing interface.

Automatically creates enables =tab-bar-mode= and creates a tab when opening a project.

A quick cursor jump mode.

Preview line when executing =goto-line= command.

Jump to visible text using a char-based decision tree.

Zap to char using avy.

Move point through buffer-undo-list positions.

Efficiently jump between matched string/lines.

An intuitive and efficient solution for single-buffer text search in Emacs.

displays current match and total matches.

IDO/Helm imenu tag selection across all buffers with the same mode.

Quickly follow links in =org-mode=, =help-mode=, =Info-mode=, and several other modes.

Visual navigation through mark rings.

Visual Bookmarks, provides an easy way to navigate in a buffer.

Provide navigation like the Vimperator/KeySnail Hint Mode of Firefox.

Jump lines using the home row.

Navigate by indentation block levels.

Navigate by indentation and whitespace blocks.

Toggle point between line positions of interest.

Move the scroll in Emacs without moving the position cursor.

A smarter cd command for Emacs.

A Transient user-interface for [[https://github.com/abo-abo/avy][Avy]]. Included in [[https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-suite][Casual Suite]].

An e xtensible vi l ayer: manipulate Emacs with Vi key binding.

Make bindings that stick around.

Global minor mode for entering Emacs commands without modifier keys.

Yet another modal editing on Emacs.

Introduce modal editing of your own design.

Inspired by modalka, ryo-modal provides useful features for creating your own modal editing environment.

Use Evil-like binding states without predefined keybindings (Evil mode without vi).

A modal keybinding for emacs (like vim), but based on command frequency and ergonomics.

Global minor mode to use both common interface keys and ergonomic keys for emacs.

A convenient, unified interface for key definitions - like use-package but for key-bindings.

Non-modal way to enter Emacs commands without modifier keys, using the comma.

(Formerly 'Anything') A powerful completion and selection narrowing framework. ( External Guides [[http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html][1]] )

flexible, simple tools for minibuffer completion in Emacs.

An alternative M-x interface for Emacs.

Vertico provides a minimalistic vertical completion UI, which is based on the default completion system.

Consult provides various practical commands based on the Emacs completion function completing-read.

Emacs version of the Vim powerline.

A sexy mode-line for Emacs.

Powerline theme from Spacemacs.

A new implementation of Powerline for Emacs.

Display mode-line information at right of minibuffer.

Diminished modes are minor modes with no modeline display.

A mode-line package included in Doom and Centaur emacs.

Customize or hide the display of major and minor modes in the mode-line.

Evaluate mode-line elements when idle, displaying detailed information without sacrificing performance.

Minimal modeline similar to doom-modeline. Also supports [[https://github.com/konrad1977/punch-line#what-am-i-doing-plugin]["what I'm doing"]] messages.

A minor-mode menu for the mode line. Minor modes in a single menu.

Interactively highlight which buffer is active by dimming the others.

Visually distinguish file-visiting windows from other types of windows (like popups or sidebars) by giving them a slightly different background.

Dim the font color of text in surrounding paragraphs.

View and edit parts of multiple files in one buffer.

Create views of the same content in two Emacs buffers.

Emacs extension for typographical editing.

display live =calc= results inline.

A Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs.

Emacs minor mode to highlight indentation.

Highlight indentation.

Show vertical lines to guide indentation.

Keeps your code always indented automatically.

Highlight indentation using source-code scope (typically defined by brackets).

Optimized vertical lines to guide indentation, with additional tree-sitter support.

Colorize color names / color hex code in buffers.

Preview any color in your buffer

Highlight symbols with keymap-enabled overlays (inspired by highlight-symbol).

Auto/manually highlight the same symbols in code, navigate in them, or replace string.

Light-weight minor mode to highlight thing under point using built-ins.

Color Identifiers is a minor mode for Emacs that highlights each source code identifier uniquely based on its name.

Highlights occurrences of the current selected region.

A C/C++ client/server indexer with for integration with emacs based on clang.

Emacs client of [[https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls][ccls]], a C/C++/Objective-C language server powered by clang.

Emacs client of [[https://github.com/jacobdufault/cquery][cquery]], a C/C++/Objective-C language server powered by clang.

A C/C++ minor mode for Emacs powered by libclang.

Enhanced font-lock rules for CMake.

visual CEDET enhancements for C++.

An interface to clang-format for Emacs, provides C/C++ code formatting functionality.

A client for [[https://godbolt.org][compiler-explorer]]

An Emacs Python development environment.

Code navigation, documentation lookup and completion for Python.

Manage virtualenv from inside Emacs.

Integrates pipenv to emacs providing useful commands.

Emacs major mode for working with the Ren'Py visual novel engine.

Ruby versions manager within Emacs.

Interact with gem Bundler from Emacs.

REPL buffer connected to a Ruby subprocess.

Enhanced Ruby Mode replaces the emacs ruby mode that comes with ruby. It uses the Ripper class found in ruby 1.9.2 (and later) to parse and indent the source code.

Code navigation, documentation lookup and completion for Ruby.

A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.

A package to provide emacs' major mode for RubyMotion environment.

An RSpec minor mode for Emacs.

Emacs mode for editing Cucumber plain text stories.

Emacs minor mode for working with Ruby on Rails applications and engines.

Rinari Is Not A Rails IDE (it is an Emacs minor mode for Rails).

Minor mode for editing parenthesis, evaluating and refactoring LISP code with extremely short key bindings. Compatible with Lisp/Scheme/Clojure.

[[https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/][Parinfer]] for Emacs, simpler Lisp editing.

A fully-functional IDE for Common Lisp development, with debugger, REPL.

A fork of SLIME.

Yasnippets for Common Lisp.

Major modes for Racket: Edit and REPL.

A major mode for clojure.

Clojure IDE and REPL.

Clojure snippets with yasnippet.

A collection of Clojure refactoring functions for Emacs.

Emacs integration for the jet Clojure tool.

Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer and gradual type system.

Elisp Language Server.

Highlight defined functions' / variables' name.

Discover elisp functions that do what you want.

Improve readability of escape characters in ELisp regular expressions.

Evaluation Result OverlayS for Emacs Lisp.

Auto-format ELisp (with support for formatting the buffer on save).

[[https://emmet.io/][Emmet]] support for Emacs.

Another implemenation of [[https://emmet.io/][Emmet]], that leverages the =npm= package instead of replicating the logic in lisp.

Format HTML, CSS and JavaScript/JSON by js-beautify.

live interact with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML in a web-browser.

See your changes in the browser as you type.

HTTP REST client tool for emacs.

Organize and send HTTP requests from Emacs.

Major mode for editing JSON files.

A C/C++ client/server indexer with for integration with emacs based on clang.

Intelligently call whitespace-cleanup on save.

Unobtrusively trim extraneous white-space ONLY in lines edited.

Delete an entire block of whitespace at point.

Delete whitespace between words, parenthesis and other delimiters in a (not very) smart way.

Fancy replacement for =zap-to-char=.

A package used to include fancy icons within emacs.

A Library for Nerd Font icons.

Display emojis in Emacs.

Show icons instead of mode names.

Mark, edit multiple lines at once.

Replace via RegExp, with real-time visual feedback directly in the buffer.

The same as visual-regexp, but use modern regular expressions instead of Emacs-style.

Interactively align lines using a regular expression.

Templates based on linear range transformations.

Provides a visual representation of replacetement. Unlike visual-regexp, it uses built-in Emacs functionality.

Automatically insert spaces around operators.

Deals with parens pairs and tries to be smart about it.

Structured editing (soft deletion, expression navigating & manipulating) that supports many major modes out of the box.

Minor-mode to automatically add space between CJK and Latin characters.

An emacs minor mode to surround the region with smart delimiters interactively.

Emacs version of vim.surround

Emacs version of vim.surround that uses =Evil= as its vi layer.

Increase selected region by semantic units.

Highlights parentheses, brackets, and braces according to their depth.

highlight surrounding parentheses.

highlight code based on depth

Makes visual selections work with the * operator in =evil-mode=.

Browse kill-ring with popup menu.

Visually navigate kill-ring.

Kill & Mark Things Easily in Emacs.

Clipboard monitor for Emacs. Monitors clipboard and pastes contents on change.

Simplified access to the system clipboard.

move current line or region up or down.

Minor mode for Eclipse-like moving and duplicating lines or rectangles.

Drag Stuff is a minor mode for Emacs that makes it possible to drag stuff (words, region, lines) around in Emacs.

Navigate the emacs undo history by staging undo's in a temporary buffer.

Navigate the emacs undo buffer history as a tree-structure.

An undo/redo system that advertises itself as being simpler than Undo Tree.

Save undo history across sessions. Intended to work with, but not dependent on =undo-fu=.

allows Multiple Major Modes to coexist in one buffer (ex: Embedded CSS & JS in HTML file).

Framework for Multiple Major Modes in Emacs (ex: Embedded programming language code in Markdown, Org, RST file...etc)

A template system that allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.

Advanced copy-paste using Yasnippet.

Preview yasnippet snippets with ivy.

Template package which uses the syntax of the Emacs Tempo library.

Transform words in Emacs (upcase, downcase, capitalize).

Conversion of text between lowercase, uppercase, camelcase etc.

Incremental parsing system.

Language bundle for Emacs's tree-sitter package.

refactoring tool and code browser for C and Java.

Comment/uncomment lines efficiently. Like Nerd Commenter in Vim. This program can be used independently without evil-mode.

Auto-format source code in many languages using the same command.

Run code formatter on buffer contents without moving point, using RCS patches and dynamic programming.

Plugin shows complexity information.

Automatically setup and use the built-in tree-sitter, by installing grammars and using tree-sitter major modes.

An intelligent auto-completion extension with great interface.

Documentation popups for company.

A company front-end with icons.

Fuzzy matching for company.

Fuzzy matching for Emacs like Sublime Text.

flx in Rust using dynamic module.

Emacs client for YCM.

Completion At Point extensions that can be used with =corfu=, =company=, or the default completion ui.

Immediate completion that doesn't block user input, but cycles through options on successive calls. It can also be used with ISpell as a fast way to correct typos.

Non-blocking completion with preview that doesn't block user input which supports multiple back-ends at once including back-ends for dabbrev, capf and statistical word prediction among others.

easy jump to definition package for multiple languages using =ag= or =grep=.

smartly go to definition leveraging several methods to do so.

Emacs frontend to GNU Global source code tagging system.

Advanced Ctags frontend, comes with powerful code-reading tool.

Emacs client for the [[https://langserver.org/][Language Server Protocol]].

An extension which adds code lenses and documentation pop-up for lsp-mode.

Fastest LSP client for Emacs.

Simple LSP client implemented as an Emacs module using Rust.

An implementation of the debug adapter protocol used in VSCode and other editors.

Modern on-the-fly syntax checking meant to be a replacement to =FlyMake=.

Browse [[https://devdocs.io][DevDocs.io]] docsets offline.

Browse [[https://kapeli.com/dash][Dash]] docsets via Helm interface.

Displays =eldoc= documentation within a childframe.

Emacs client of [[https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr][tldr-pages]].

A document string minor mode.

Vim-like text folding.

Feature rich text folding minor mode.

Code-folding using tree-sitter.

Code folding based on the tree-sitter syntax tree, built on top of treesit.el.

Fold text based on indentation levels.

Persistence for various Emacs folding systems.

Multi target interface to compile.

Output enhancements to compilation-mode (including color support).

Implements run button used in many IDE.

A package that ensures all .el files are both byte-compiled and native-compiled, significantly speeding up Emacs.

Corfu enhances the default completion in region function with a completion overlay.

Project Interaction Library for Emacs.

Manage external services from within Emacs.

a tree project explorer (integrates with projectile).

Quick access to project files in Emacs.

Minimalistic and highly customizable project manager.

A polished Dired bundled with useful extensions.

Collection of useful Dired additions.

Highlight Dired buffer by file size, modified time, git status.

A emacs tree plugin like NERD tree for Vim.

Speedbar and Projectile integration.

directory tree explorer.

Directory tree comparison mode.

[[http://ranger.nongnu.org/][ranger]] like file manager based on Dired.

Twin-pane file manager for Emacs based on Dired and inspired by Midnight Commander.

a tree layout file explorer for Emacs.

A customizable file explorer with git integration for emacs.

Browse HDFS in Emacs with dired using Tramp.

FAR-like file manager.

tree-based file explorer.

An Emacs major mode for PureScript.

An Emacs major mode for psci.

Emacs integration for PureScript's psc-ide tool.

Major mode for PHP programming.

Launch PHP unit tests using phpunit.

Interface to Phpactor (an intelligent code-completion and refactoring tool for PHP).

PHP Composer interface for Emacs.

PsySH on Emacs, PHP interactive shell (REPL).

An Eclipse plugin which exposes Eclipse features through a server interface.

Eclipse JDT Language Server integration for Emacs.

Go mode rewrite for Emacs. Provides Go toolchain integration.

Go syntax checker. Wrapper around Emacs flymake for Go.

An autocompletion daemon for the Go programming language.

Launch PHP unit tests using phpunit.

Emacs support for Swift playgrounds.

A major mode for editing Lua sources in Emacs.

Major mode for editing Julia source code.

External Guides

go-errcheck provides an easy way to invoke errcheck from within Emacs.

Local playground for Go code snippets.

A minor emacs mode for Go REPL.

Launch GO unit tests.

Edit field tags for golang struct fields, based on https://github.com/fatih/gomodifytags.

Flycheck checker for golangci-lint.

Major mode for C#.

IDE-like features for editing C# code.

An Emacs major mode for editing Rust code.

Better Rust/Cargo support for Flycheck.

Racer support for Emacs.

Cargo support for Emacs.

A fork of rust mode with improvements and configurations for things such as flycheck and lsp-mode.

The official Erlang mode for Emacs.

Distel is a library for Emacs<->Erlang communication, plus a suite of tools built on top of it, such as a debugger front-end.

EDTS is meant to be able to replace Distel but only provides part of the most commonly used of Distel's features.

Wrangler is a mode that supports interactive refactoring of Erlang programs.

Emacs major mode for Elixir.

Elixir Tooling Integration Into Emacs.

Major mode for Haskell.

Dante provides a frontend to GHCi features: type-checking, execution, completion and cross referencing. It integrates with standard Emacs tooling as much as possible.

Minor mode for structured editing of Haskell.

Haskell refactoring tool with Emacs integration.

Nix integration for Haskell development.

A successor to Intero under active development.

Emacs support for Apple's Swift programming language.

Emacs support for Swift playgrounds.

Completion for Swift projects via SourceKit with the help of SourceKitten.

ENhanced Scala Interaction Mode for Emacs.

An emacs mode for interacting with scala sbt and projects.

Scala language server with rich IDE features.

Select a Makefile target with helm.

A major mode for editing Lua sources in Emacs.

Emacs helpers to run things from Makefiles.

An Emacs package to get GDScript support and syntax highlighting.

A collection of modes for use with Groovy-related technology -- Groovy, Grails, etc.

A minor mode for Grails projects.

Kotlin major mode for Emacs.

Major mode for editing Julia source code.

A minor emacs mode for Julia REPL.

a Caml mode for Emacs.

a set of tools for developing in OCaml.

An Emacs major mode for editing Mint code.

An Emacs major mode for editing Nim code.

An Emacs major mode for editing Raku code.

An Emacs major mode for editing Elm code.

An Emacs major mode for editing Stan code.

An emacs major mode for editing MIPS assembly.

An emacs major mode for editing RISC-V assembly.

Emacs major mode for Verilog and SystemVerilog with Indentation, Highlighting and AUTOs.

SystemVerilog Extensions for Emacs.

SystemVerilog Tree-sitter mode for Emacs.

Emacs major mode for editing VHDL code.

VHDL Extensions for Emacs.

VHDL Tree-sitter mode for Emacs.

Emacs major mode for https://github.com/lammps/lammps Molecular Dynamics Simulator scripts with proper font-locking.

An emacs major mode for editing Ada sources.

A lightweight session manager that persists and restores Emacs frames, the tab-bar, and buffers (file editing buffers, indirect buffers, Dired buffers, etc.).

Display available key bindings in popup. Rewrite of guide-key with added features to improve display.

Helm interface for Emacs' =describe-bindings=.

Displays the available key bindings automatically and dynamically.

Tooltip version of guide-key.

Discover more of emacs with well-categorized context menus.

Create your own customized cheatsheet.

a full-featured screenwriting environment for GNU Emacs using the Fountain markup format.

Writeroom-mode: distraction-free writing for Emacs.

annotate files without changing them.

Powerthesaurus integration for Emacs.

Quickly browse, filter, and edit directories of plain text notes.

Robust automatic language detection (e.g. Arabic, Czech, Danish, etc).

Grammarly API interface.

Grammarly Language Server integration for Emacs.

LanguageTool for Emacs.

LTEX Language Server integration for Emacs.

Highlights uncommitted changes. Works with several different VC systems. An actively-maintained alternative to =git-gutter=.

Fork and clone Github projects from Emacs.

Major mode for editing git rebase files.

Indicates modified lines via git diff. [Unmaintained, consider using =diff-hl= instead.]

popup commit message at current line to know why this line was changed.

Open page at github/bitbucket from emacs buffers.

Get the GitHub/Bitbucket/GitLab etc... URL for a buffer location.

An interactive interface for mercurial.

An Emacs front-end for the Mercurial SCM.

A command for Emacs to regress or "undo" a region back through its Git history.

For additional git-related emacs packages to use or to get inspiration from, take a look at the following resource: https://github.com/tarsius-legacy/git-elisp-overview.

Magit interfaces for GitHub. [Deprecated. The project suggests using forge]

A simple-minded way of managing window configs in emacs.

Emacs functions for macOS.

A set of functions and bindings to google under point.

Interface to Google Translate.

Google Maps support for Emacs.

An Emacs mode to manage [[https://jekyllrb.com/][Jekyll]] blogs.

A frontend UI of [[https://hexo.io/][Hexo]] for Emacs.

Write blog in emacs with hexo/org-page/nikola.

A simple static site generator based on org mode.

Additional functions for Emacs [markdown-mode].

Generate TOC for markdown files.

Format markdown using [[https://github.com/shurcooL/markdownfmt][markdownfmt]].

Instant Github-flavored Markdown/Org preview using [[https://github.com/joeyespo/grip][Grip]].

major mode for rendering PDF files, much better than DocView, and has a much richer set of features.

addition to PDF Tools which saves the current position in a PDF to resume reading at that place even after the buffer has been closed or emacs restarted.

Desktop notifications and modeline display for mu4e.

Alternative view for displaying emails in mu4e.

A Client for IRC in Emacs.

A Weechat-relay client for Emacs.

slack client for Emacs.

XMPP client.

A Matrix client for Emacs.

Stack Exchange for Emacs.

Instant coding answers via Emacs, a way to query Stack Overflow directly from within Emacs.

Sina weibo client in Emacs.

RSS/Atom Reader for Emacs.

An extension for Elfeed which lets you define all feeds in an Org file.

GNU Emacs frontend for the rTorrent bittorrent client.

Emacs mode to edit Chef repositories.

Ansible minor mode.

Edit Puppet 3 manifests with GNU Emacs 24.

Edit Salt States with GNU Emacs 24.

Emacs interface to Docker, manipulate docker images, containers & more from Emacs.

Terraform mode to edit terraform files.

A magit-style interface to the Kubernetes command-line client.

Emacs extension for controlling Kubernetes with limited permissions.