Applications supporting plugins

This page is a list, for the GNU Generation project, of GNU projects for which you can write plugins (also called "modules", "extensions", or "add-ons").

Emacs

The GNU Emacs text editor can be extended by plugins written in elisp

• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs

GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program is the image and photo editor of the GNU project.

You can write plugins for GIMP in Scheme.

• List of existing GIMP plugins

GCC

The GNU Compiler Collection developers are currently working on a plugin architecture, as of Summer 2009, but this is not ready done.

• http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Plugins.html
• http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins

TeXmacs

GNU TeXmacs can be extended by plugins written in Scheme.

• http://www.gnu.org/software/texmacs

LilyPond

GNU TeXmacs can be extended by plugins written in Scheme.

• http://lilypond.org/web/

External resources

The following are ways to find free software applications that have plugin architectures:

• gnu.org's Free Software Directy
  • Search for "plugin"
  • Search for "plug-in"
  • Search for "module"
  • Search for "extension"
• Wikipedia's article on GNU Guile, which includes a list of programs using Guile as a plugin architecture