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Emacs modules

Emacs 25 added support to load shared/dynamic libraries (modules):

A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package written in Emacs Lisp would.

Writing Modules

Tutorials

• Introduction to Emacs modules

Other languages

Nim

https://github.com/yuutayamada/nim-emacs-module

OCaml

https://github.com/janestreet/ecaml

Rust

• https://github.com/lunaryorn/emacs-module.rs
• https://github.com/jjpe/emacs_module_bindings

Examples

Official example

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/tree/emacs-25/modules/mod-test

Syohex’s module test

https://github.com/syohex/emacs-module-test

Available Modules

emacs-capstone

elisp bindings for the capstone disassembler

emacs-csound

EmacsLisp link to Csound’s API via Emacs Modules

emacs-cmigemo

Emacs dynamic module for cmigemo

emacs-cipher

OpenSSL cipher binding of Emacs Lisp

emacs-lua

Lua engine from Emacs Lisp

emacs-mruby

Emacs with mruby

emacs-parson

JSON parser with dynamic module feature with parson

emacs-perl

Embed Perl into Emacs

emacs-sqlite3

sqlite3 binding of Emacs Lisp

emacs-ztd

libzstd binding of Emacs Lisp