Where to get JavaScript, Visual Basic, PHP modes?

Xah Lee, 2008-07, 2009-08-09, 2010-06-11

This pages tells you where to get modes for popular languages. These modes i personally use and recommend. It might save you hours digging into the web to find out which one works, which are better, etc.

If you are using ErgoEmacs distribution, all of the following are bundled and setup by default.

Useful Emacs Packages

Programing Language Modes

PHP http://php-mode.sourceforge.net/. By Aaron S Hawley, Turadg Aleahmad.
Visual Basic Emacs Visual Basic Mode. By Fred White, Dave Love, et al.
JavaScript js2-mode. By Steve Yegge. Features a js parser with on the fly syntax validation.
JavaScript espresso-mode. By Daniel Colascione, Karl Landstrom. (more traditional mode. bundled with emacs 23.2 as js-mode.)
XML nxml-mode. By James Clark. (bundled with emacs 23.1)

OCaml Tuareg mode. By Xavier Leroy, et al.
Haskell haskell-mode. By Stefan Monnier.
PowerShell Emacs PowerShell Modes.
LSL xlsl-mode. By Xah Lee.

POV-Ray POV-Ray mode.

Coding Helpers

Template System See: Emacs Templates with YASnippet.

Publishing

Htmlize htmlize.el by Hrvoje Niksic. Convert any buffer's syntax coloring to html with css. Great for publishing source code in html.
Google Blog Interface e-blog. By Mikey Coulson. (e-blog may not work in emacs 23) (note: “blogger.el” and “weblogger.el” does not work.)
LiveJournal Interface ljupdate. By Edward O'connor.

Outliner See: Writing Outline with Emacs (org mode).
Light Weight Markup EmacsMuse. By Michael Olson. Type simple markup and export to HTML, PDF, LaTex, Texinfo... formats.

English Writing

Dictionary dictionary. By Torsten Hilbrich. Lookup English word definitions in emacs thru online English dictionary server.
Spell checker SpeckMode. By Martin Rudalics. This is better than the default flyspell.

Where To Get Emacs Packages

Best way to find emacs packages is by emacswiki.org or google search.

How To Install Packages

How To Install Emacs Packages.

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