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@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@c
@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
@unnumbered Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs.  To show our appreciation for
their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
written substantial portions.  Others too numerous to mention have
reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
We thank them for their generosity as well.

This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
please report that as a manual bug.  More comprehensive information is
available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
@file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.

@c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
@c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
@c that many users would notice and consider important.
@c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
@c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
@c emacs.texi is used.

@itemize @bullet
@item
Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
@file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
@file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}.  He also co-wrote
@file{gnus-soup.el}.

@item
Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
@acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.

@item
Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
files.

@item
Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
interface.  He and Kai Gro@ss{}johann wrote the Tramp package, which
provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
other network protocols.  He and Daniel Pittman wrote
@file{tramp-cache.el}.

@item
Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
in the buffer.

@item
Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
implemented support for X11.

@item
Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
@code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
@file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.

@item
David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
moving the mouse in particular patterns.

@item
Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
Emacs.

@item
Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
@file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus.  He also wrote
@file{gnus-setup.el}.

@item
Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
ERC distribution).

@item
Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the 
NeXTstep port of Emacs.

@item
Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.

@item
Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.

@item
Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
mode for editing reStructuredText documents.

@item
Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
frame support and multi-face support.  Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).

@item
Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
buffer.

@item
Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
that learns landmarks.

@item
Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
output.

@item
Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
the ``generic mode'' feature.

@item
Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
@file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.

@item
Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
Emacs's outline modes.

@item
David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
tabular data.

@item
W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
changing the encoding of Polish characters.

@item
Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.

@item
Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
manipulating object collections.  Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.

@item
Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
Lisp.

@item
Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
for editing IDL and WAVE CL.

@item
Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
@file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.

@item
Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
for Korean Hanja.

@item
Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.

@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23.  He made many
improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai
Gro@ss{}johann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor
mode for wrapping long lines.

@item
James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents.  He also contributed to
Emacs's dumping procedures.

@item
Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.

@item
Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
use it, Snake and Tetris.

@item
Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
it is analysed for spam.

@item
Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
package for easy definition of major and minor modes.

@item
Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).

@item
Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
for compiled Emacs Lisp code.

@item
Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
files as ``thumbnails.''

@item
Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
(@file{notifications.el}).

@item
Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
source tree to HTML.

@item
Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.

@item
Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
@file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.

@item
Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
text replace the current selection.

@item
Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},

@item
Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.

@item
Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
(q.v.@:).  He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,