This is a list o fall pre-installed packages in Alpha. For each package
there is a very brief description of it and a link to more documentation
whenever there is any available.

The set of pre-installed packages may change from time to time, and this
document may therefore not be 100% accurate. To list all currently 
installed packages use the menu item "Config->List Packages".

Modes

Ada - mode for editing Ada code
Documentation
       
Bib - mode for editing BibTeX documents
Documentation

C - mode for editing C code
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

C++ - mode for editing C++ code
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Calc - Alpha's own calculator
Documentation

Caml - mode for editing Caml Light code
Maintained by Patrick Cousot, <cousot@dmi.ens.fr>
Documentation

CSS - mode for editing Cascading Style Sheet code
Maintained by Johan Linde, <jlinde@telia.com>
Documentation

Diff - mode for comparing files
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Fort - mode for editing Fortran code
Documentation

GPLT - mode for editing Gnuplot documents
Maintained by Jeff Schindall, <schindall@nrl.navy.mil>
Documentation

HTML - mode for editing HTML code
Maintained by Johan Linde, <jlinde@telia.com>
Documentation

Igor - mode for editing Igor documents
Documentation

Java - mode for editing Java code
Documentation

JScr - mode for editing JavaScript code
Maintained by Johan Linde, <jlinde@telia.com>
Documentation

Mf - mode for editing Metafont code
Maintained by Bernard Desgraupes, <berdesg@easynet.f>
Documentation

Pasc - mode for editing Pascal code
Documentation

Perl - mode for editing Perl code
Documentation

Scil - mode for editing Scilab documents
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Scm - mode for editing Scheme code
Documentation

Scrp - mode for editing AppleScript code
Documentation

Setx - mode for editing Setext documents
Documentation

SQL - mode for editing SQL and Oracle's PL/SQL code
Documentation

Tcl - mode for editing Tcl code
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation. Se also Tcl Commands, Alpha Commands
  
TeX - mode for editing TeX documents
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation


Menus

CodeWarrior menu - tools to make Alpha interact with CodeWarrior
Documentation

Color menu - tools for coloring text in documents, mainly used for documentation
Documentation

Electric menu - menu with electric templates
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Eudora menu - tools to make Alpha interact with Eudora
Documentation

Fileset menu - Menu for handling filesets. Filesets are lists of files that
Alpha uses for multiple-file searches and tag searches, among other things.
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Frontier menu - tools to use to use Alpha as Frontier's external editor
Maintained by Johan Linde, <jlinde@telia.com>
Documentation

Ftp menu - menu which allows quick access to files on a remote ftp server
Documentation

Internet Config menu - tools to make Alpha interact with Internet Config
Documentation

Think menu - tools to make Alpha interact with Think
Documentation

ThinkRef menu - tools to make Alpha interact with Think
Documentation

ToolboxRef menu - tools to make Alpha interact with Toolbox Assistant
Documentation

WWW menu - to browse local html pages inside Alpha
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation


Features

Auto Continue Comment - if the current line is a comment, make the following
line continues the comment when hitting return
Documentation

Better Templates - enhanced templates when using electric completions
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

BibTeX Engine - tools to make Alpha interact with the BibTeX application
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Comments aren't special when indenting - whether or not comments should be 
treated specially when indenting       
Documentation

Compare Windows - tools to compare windows (not to be confused with Diff mode)
Documentation

Copy Ring - a copy/paste ring  
Documentation

Developer Utilities - tools for Alpha package developers
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Document Projects - tools for making document templates
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Electric Bindings - help package for electric completions
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Electric Completions - tools for speeding up editing with template insertions
and sophisticated 'complete- what-I-just-typed' features	
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Electric Expansions - ools for speeding up editing by expanding what you just typed
Documentation

Electric Braces - inserts the '{' or '}' character, followed by a return and
then indent the following line correctly for applicable modes
Documentation

Electric Colon - indents lines ending by colon specially for applicable modes
Documentation

Electric Return - indents the following line automatically whenever you
press return
Documentation

Electric Semicolon - inserts the ';' character followed by a return and then
indents the following line correctly for applicable modes
Documentation

Electric Tab - make tab move to the next template stop or indent the current
line
Documentation

Emacs - provides a set of key bindings that mimic those used in the Emacs
editor
Documentation

Indent Using Spaces Only - do not use tabs to indent, but spaces only
Documentation

International Menus - Changes incompatible menu key-bindings to keys which
are useable on any (western) international keyboard
Documentation

LaTeX Bb to Viewport - Converts \includegraphics bb= to viewport= so your file will
work ok with both latex and pdflatex
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Macros - allows you to record, save and replay keyboard macros
Documentation

New Document - instead of opening blank 'untitled' documents with
cmd-N, this package allow you to select a document type or template
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Printer Choices Menu - creates a printer sub-menu, allowing you to print
using Enscriptor, Kodex, Dropps or PrettyC as well as directly from Alpha
Documentation

Recent Files Menu - maintains a menu of recently used files, for quick access
Documentation

Search Paths - Over-rides the default 'option title-bar clicking routines',
allowing them to search more widely
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Smarter Source - to help make the process of augmenting Alpha's code base
with your own changes less awkward
Documentation

Supersearch - replacement for the 'Find' dialog box
Maintained by Vince Darley, <vince@santafe.edu>
Documentation

Switch to menu - keeps a menu of commonly used applications, for quick 
switching
Documentation
