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6bf7aab6 | 1 | @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
b65d8176 | 2 | @c Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, |
6ed161e1 | 3 | @c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
6bf7aab6 | 4 | @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
2679716a | 5 | @c |
6bf7aab6 | 6 | @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top |
ba34fe20 | 7 | @unnumbered Acknowledgments |
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8 | |
9 | Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software | |
10 | Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for | |
26145417 | 11 | their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have |
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12 | written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have |
13 | reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs. | |
14 | We thank them for their generosity as well. | |
15 | ||
fa61190c | 16 | This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or |
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17 | feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted, |
18 | please report that as a manual bug. More comprehensive information is | |
19 | available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file | |
20 | @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution. | |
6bf7aab6 | 21 | |
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22 | @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package, |
23 | @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs | |
24 | @c that many users would notice and consider important. | |
236fd60d | 25 | @c Remove things that are no longer distributed. |
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26 | @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in |
27 | @c emacs.texi is used. | |
26145417 | 28 | |
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29 | @itemize @bullet |
30 | @item | |
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31 | Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as |
32 | @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available | |
33 | from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands | |
34 | through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization | |
35 | commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for | |
36 | news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el}, | |
37 | which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor | |
38 | conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el}, | |
39 | @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote | |
40 | @file{gnus-soup.el}. | |
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41 | |
42 | @item | |
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43 | Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing |
44 | @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys. | |
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45 | |
46 | @item | |
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47 | Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el}, |
48 | providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed | |
49 | files. | |
6bf7aab6 | 50 | |
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51 | @item |
52 | Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the | |
53 | D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing | |
54 | Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine | |
55 | interface. He and Kai Gro@ss{}johann wrote the Tramp package, which | |
56 | provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and | |
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57 | other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote |
58 | @file{tramp-cache.el}. | |
c3a37bd2 | 59 | |
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60 | @item |
61 | Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the | |
62 | point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down | |
63 | in the buffer. | |
64 | ||
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65 | @item |
66 | Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and | |
67 | implemented support for X11. | |
68 | ||
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70 | Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image |
71 | files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer | |
72 | default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of | |
73 | @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer | |
74 | depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons; | |
75 | @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in | |
76 | individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. | |
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77 | |
78 | @item | |
79 | David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by | |
80 | moving the mouse in particular patterns. | |
81 | ||
82 | @item | |
83 | Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for | |
84 | Emacs. | |
85 | ||
86 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 87 | Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include |
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88 | footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and |
89 | @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote | |
90 | @file{gnus-setup.el}. | |
107bb0f4 | 91 | |
6bf7aab6 | 92 | @item |
236fd60d | 93 | Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson, |
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94 | Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence |
95 | Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer, | |
96 | Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay | |
97 | Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the | |
98 | ERC distribution). | |
6bf7aab6 | 99 | |
27f70a64 | 100 | @item |
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101 | Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman, |
102 | Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the | |
103 | NeXTstep port of Emacs. | |
104 | ||
105 | @item | |
106 | Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars. | |
27f70a64 | 107 | |
b930de78 | 108 | @item |
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109 | Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing |
110 | Delphi (Object Pascal) source code. | |
b930de78 | 111 | |
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112 | @item |
113 | Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a | |
114 | mode for editing reStructuredText documents. | |
115 | ||
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116 | @item |
117 | Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and | |
118 | build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the | |
b930de78 | 119 | frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el}, |
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120 | terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote |
121 | @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:). | |
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122 | |
123 | @item | |
124 | Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs | |
125 | buffer. | |
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126 | |
127 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 128 | Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot |
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129 | that learns landmarks. |
130 | ||
131 | @item | |
132 | Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff} | |
133 | output. | |
134 | ||
135 | @item | |
236fd60d | 136 | Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking |
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137 | directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records |
138 | which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which | |
139 | interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs | |
140 | Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and | |
b930de78 | 141 | the ``generic mode'' feature. |
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142 | |
143 | @item | |
236fd60d | 144 | Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and |
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145 | @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as |
146 | co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}. | |
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147 | |
148 | @item | |
149 | Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to | |
150 | Emacs's outline modes. | |
151 | ||
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da4cf7c5 | 153 | David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other |
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154 | tabular data. |
155 | ||
156 | @item | |
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157 | W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for |
158 | changing the encoding of Polish characters. | |
159 | ||
160 | @item | |
161 | Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging | |
162 | outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers. | |
163 | ||
164 | @item | |
165 | Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for | |
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166 | manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and |
167 | Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees. | |
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168 | |
169 | @item | |
170 | Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for | |
236fd60d | 171 | Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs |
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172 | Lisp. |
173 | ||
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175 | Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode, |
176 | for editing IDL and WAVE CL. | |
b930de78 | 177 | |
6bf7aab6 | 178 | @item |
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179 | Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and |
180 | @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files; | |
181 | and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. | |
b930de78 | 182 | |
9dfa7983 | 183 | @item |
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184 | Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities |
185 | for Korean Hanja. | |
9dfa7983 | 186 | |
b930de78 | 187 | @item |
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188 | Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used |
189 | prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS. | |
190 | ||
191 | @item | |
192 | Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many | |
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193 | improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai |
194 | Gro@ss{}johann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor | |
195 | mode for wrapping long lines. | |
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196 | |
197 | @item | |
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198 | James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and |
199 | nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to | |
200 | Emacs's dumping procedures. | |
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201 | |
202 | @item | |
203 | Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor. | |
204 | ||
205 | @item | |
206 | Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that | |
207 | use it, Snake and Tetris. | |
208 | ||
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209 | @item |
210 | Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before | |
211 | it is analysed for spam. | |
212 | ||
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213 | @item |
214 | Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a | |
215 | package for easy definition of major and minor modes. | |
216 | ||
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217 | @item |
218 | Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}). | |
219 | ||
220 | @item | |
221 | Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler | |
222 | for compiled Emacs Lisp code. | |
223 | ||
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225 | Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image |
226 | files as ``thumbnails.'' | |
107bb0f4 | 227 | |
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228 | @item |
229 | Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a | |
230 | new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists. | |
231 | ||
232 | @item | |
233 | Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the | |
234 | @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer. | |
235 | ||
236 | @item | |
237 | Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed | |
238 | text replace the current selection. | |
239 | ||
240 | @item | |
2d3328f2 | 241 | Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el}, |
6bf7aab6 | 242 | |
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243 | @item |
244 | Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop. | |
245 | ||
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247 | Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and |
248 | cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode | |
249 | (q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes, | |
250 | todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Bastien Guerry, | |
251 | Tassilo Horn, Philip Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima, Eric Schulte, Andy | |
252 | Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, and Piotr Zielinski also wrote | |
253 | various Org mode components. | |
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254 | |
255 | @item | |
256 | Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining | |
257 | transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses. | |
258 | ||
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259 | @item |
260 | Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical | |
261 | pong game. | |
262 | ||
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263 | @item |
264 | Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4. | |
265 | ||
266 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 267 | John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode. |
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268 | |
269 | @item | |
236fd60d | 270 | Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode. |
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271 | |
272 | @item | |
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273 | Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail |
274 | folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature | |
275 | for incremental reading and completion of buffer names. | |
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276 | |
277 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 278 | Torbj@"orn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files. |
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279 | |
280 | @item | |
281 | Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets. | |
282 | ||
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284 | David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an |
285 | interface to the Mairix indexing tool. | |
c3a37bd2 | 286 | |
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287 | @item |
288 | Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87 | |
289 | code. | |
290 | ||
291 | @item | |
292 | Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a | |
293 | function's source code and preceding comment on the screen. | |
294 | ||
295 | @item | |
296 | Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data | |
297 | Language source code. | |
298 | ||
299 | @item | |
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300 | Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to |
301 | Morse code. | |
302 | ||
303 | @item | |
304 | Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which | |
305 | is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and | |
306 | @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface. | |
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307 | |
308 | @item | |
309 | Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files. | |
310 | ||
311 | @item | |
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312 | Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named |
313 | placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing | |
314 | mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's | |
315 | location in files between editing sessions. | |
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316 | |
317 | @item | |
b930de78 | 318 | Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief |
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319 | editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers |
320 | together. | |
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321 | |
322 | @item | |
b930de78 | 323 | Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin, |
6bf7aab6 | 324 | @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from |
b930de78 | 325 | typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or |
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326 | the doc string for the Lisp function near point. |
327 | ||
328 | @item | |
329 | Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler. | |
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330 | |
331 | @item | |
332 | Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files. | |
333 | ||
334 | @item | |
335 | Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote | |
336 | @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF | |
337 | flow control. | |
338 | ||
339 | @item | |
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340 | Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote |
341 | @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system. | |
6bf7aab6 | 342 | |
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343 | @item |
344 | Juan Le@'{o}n Lahoz Garc@'{i}a wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for | |
345 | performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers. | |
346 | ||
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348 | Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and |
349 | case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the | |
350 | plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher; | |
236fd60d | 351 | @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on |
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352 | VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859 |
353 | European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el}, | |
236fd60d | 354 | @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el}, |
67ffa16f | 355 | @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}). |
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356 | |
357 | @item | |
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358 | Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many |
359 | contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining | |
360 | last-change time stamps in files. | |
361 | ||
362 | @item | |
363 | Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for | |
364 | Gnus. | |
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365 | |
366 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 367 | David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages; |
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368 | @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since |
369 | maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial | |
370 | completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing | |
371 | keyboard macros. | |
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372 | |
373 | @item | |
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374 | Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps |
375 | using a Lisp-like syntax. | |
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376 | |
377 | @item | |
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378 | Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse |
379 | cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a | |
380 | package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place; | |
b930de78 | 381 | @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various |
67ffa16f | 382 | formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in |
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383 | files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and |
384 | @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties. | |
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385 | |
386 | @item | |
387 | Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file, | |
388 | taking the file name from the buffer. | |
389 | ||
390 | @item | |
b930de78 | 391 | Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files. |
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392 | |
393 | @item | |
394 | Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between | |
76dd3692 | 395 | the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII} |
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396 | characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition. |
397 | ||
398 | @item | |
399 | Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus; | |
400 | as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:). | |
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401 | |
402 | @item | |
403 | Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files | |
404 | related to the currently visited file. | |
405 | ||
406 | @item | |
407 | Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation. | |
408 | ||
409 | @item | |
410 | Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international | |
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411 | character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He |
412 | also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that | |
413 | composes characters automatically when they are displayed; | |
414 | @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII} | |
415 | text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing | |
416 | non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto | |
417 | Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing | |
418 | non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard. | |
6bf7aab6 | 419 | |
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420 | @item |
421 | Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages. | |
422 | ||
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424 | K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el}, |
425 | packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and | |
426 | @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and | |
427 | appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for | |
428 | reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing | |
429 | @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing | |
430 | files and buffers without editing them. | |
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431 | |
432 | @item | |
433 | John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el}, | |
434 | which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features. | |
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435 | |
436 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 437 | Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation |
b930de78 | 438 | format of Unicode. |
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439 | |
440 | @item | |
3892ff9c | 441 | Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode. |
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442 | |
443 | @item | |
444 | Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the | |
445 | @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the | |
446 | @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits. | |
447 | ||
448 | @item | |
fcf27a65 | 449 | Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS. |
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450 | |
451 | @item | |
452 | Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and | |
453 | expansion package. | |
454 | ||
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456 | Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and |
457 | DVI documents. | |
6b2efdc2 | 458 | |
6bf7aab6 | 459 | @item |
b930de78 EZ |
460 | Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++} |
461 | template instantiations. | |
462 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
463 | @item |
464 | Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter. | |
67ffa16f | 465 | |
b930de78 EZ |
466 | @item |
467 | Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW | |
468 | browser to display a URL. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
469 | |
470 | @item | |
b930de78 | 471 | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and |
236fd60d GM |
472 | wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of |
473 | Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups; | |
474 | @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings; | |
475 | @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and | |
476 | @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of | |
3892ff9c GM |
477 | Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer, |
478 | Kevin Greiner, Kai Gro@ss{}johann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha | |
479 | L@"{u}decke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz, | |
480 | Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka, | |
481 | Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}). | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
482 | |
483 | @item | |
b930de78 | 484 | Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support. |
6bf7aab6 | 485 | |
471d1274 | 486 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 487 | Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support. |
471d1274 | 488 | |
9dfa7983 GM |
489 | @item |
490 | Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find} | |
491 | command-line. | |
492 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
493 | @item |
494 | Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs | |
9dfa7983 GM |
495 | diary entries to and from the iCalendar format; |
496 | @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and | |
497 | @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game. | |
431e8396 | 498 | |
6bf7aab6 | 499 | @item |
236fd60d | 500 | Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game. |
6bf7aab6 | 501 | |
b930de78 EZ |
502 | @item |
503 | Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential | |
504 | load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another. | |
505 | ||
506 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 507 | Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain |
236fd60d GM |
508 | Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface; |
509 | @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text | |
510 | in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe; | |
511 | @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers; | |
512 | @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP | |
513 | back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library; | |
514 | @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus | |
515 | S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el} | |
516 | for the Transport Layer Security protocol. | |
b930de78 | 517 | |
107bb0f4 | 518 | @item |
d155accf | 519 | Arne J@o{}rgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to |
107bb0f4 KS |
520 | automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files. |
521 | ||
236fd60d GM |
522 | @item |
523 | Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version | |
524 | control system. | |
525 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
526 | @item |
527 | Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out | |
528 | mail with SMTP. | |
529 | ||
530 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
531 | Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version |
532 | control system. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
533 | |
534 | @item | |
535 | Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining | |
536 | bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff} | |
537 | version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert | |
538 | those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package. | |
539 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
540 | @item |
541 | Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian | |
542 | languages. | |
543 | ||
236fd60d GM |
544 | @item |
545 | Taro Kawagishi implented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and | |
546 | wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager | |
547 | authentication support. | |
548 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
549 | @item |
550 | Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs | |
551 | buffers. | |
552 | ||
553 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
554 | Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the |
555 | @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and | |
b930de78 | 556 | Viper, the newest emulation for VI. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
557 | |
558 | @item | |
559 | Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and | |
560 | @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users | |
b930de78 EZ |
561 | editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of |
562 | @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding | |
563 | parts of the file's name to the buffer name. | |
6bf7aab6 | 564 | |
b930de78 | 565 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
566 | Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript |
567 | files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within | |
568 | Emacs. | |
b930de78 | 569 | |
431e8396 | 570 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
571 | Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal |
572 | strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication); | |
573 | and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm. | |
574 | ||
575 | @item | |
576 | Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing | |
431e8396 EZ |
577 | on-the-fly syntax checking. |
578 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 579 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 580 | Larry K.@: Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail |
6bf7aab6 DL |
581 | directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format. |
582 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
583 | @item |
584 | David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for | |
585 | interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text. | |
586 | ||
431e8396 | 587 | @item |
107bb0f4 | 588 | Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying |
431e8396 EZ |
589 | inline images. |
590 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
591 | @item |
592 | Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up | |
593 | menu support. | |
594 | ||
595 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
596 | Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence |
597 | R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the | |
598 | @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard | |
599 | program. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
600 | |
601 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
602 | Geoff Kuenning and Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker |
603 | interface. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
604 | |
605 | @item | |
606 | David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for | |
607 | easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions. | |
608 | ||
609 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
610 | Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for |
611 | Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug} | |
612 | debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; | |
613 | @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp | |
236fd60d GM |
614 | objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. |
615 | He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:). | |
6bf7aab6 | 616 | |
b930de78 | 617 | @item |
67ffa16f | 618 | Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as |
3892ff9c GM |
619 | @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa), |
620 | a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers; | |
621 | @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns; | |
622 | @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic | |
623 | chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and | |
624 | @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess | |
625 | whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el}, | |
626 | used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran. | |
b930de78 | 627 | |
6bf7aab6 | 628 | @item |
2d3328f2 | 629 | Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev |
6bf7aab6 DL |
630 | mechanism for inserting programming constructs. |
631 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
632 | @item |
633 | Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for | |
634 | Emacs Lisp programs. | |
635 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
636 | @item |
637 | Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus | |
236fd60d GM |
638 | for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote |
639 | @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
640 | |
641 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
642 | Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically |
643 | reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk; | |
644 | @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++} | |
645 | constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows | |
646 | that show the same buffer. | |
647 | ||
648 | @item | |
431e8396 EZ |
649 | Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of |
650 | files. | |
651 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
652 | @item |
653 | Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer | |
654 | searches. | |
655 | ||
67ffa16f | 656 | @item |
bffe8aa0 CY |
657 | K@'{a}roly L@"{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which |
658 | allows Emacs to run on graphical and text-only terminals | |
659 | simultaneously. | |
67ffa16f | 660 | |
236fd60d GM |
661 | @item |
662 | Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version | |
663 | control annotation. | |
664 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
665 | @item |
666 | Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and | |
667 | Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems, | |
236fd60d GM |
668 | including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote |
669 | @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply | |
670 | prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad | |
671 | numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing | |
672 | Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files; | |
67ffa16f CY |
673 | @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file |
674 | headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in | |
236fd60d GM |
675 | the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode |
676 | for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a | |
67ffa16f | 677 | package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals |
236fd60d GM |
678 | by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode |
679 | for the Python programming language; @file{refill.el}, a mode for | |
67ffa16f | 680 | automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors; |
236fd60d | 681 | @file{smiley.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces; |
67ffa16f | 682 | @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing mode-dependent symbol |
236fd60d GM |
683 | completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code execution; and |
684 | @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar. | |
685 | With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar | |
686 | version control system. | |
67ffa16f CY |
687 | |
688 | @item | |
689 | Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package. He also wrote | |
690 | @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; | |
691 | @file{dframe.el}, providing dedicatd frame support modes; and | |
107bb0f4 | 692 | @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to place images over text. |
b930de78 | 693 | |
1e487ff8 | 694 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
695 | Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and |
696 | maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards. | |
1e487ff8 | 697 | |
b930de78 EZ |
698 | @item |
699 | Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking | |
700 | simple substitution ciphers. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
701 | |
702 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 703 | Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their |
6bf7aab6 | 704 | appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files |
236fd60d | 705 | used by the @code{calendar} package. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
706 | |
707 | @item | |
708 | Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and | |
709 | formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental | |
710 | completion feedback in the minibuffer. | |
711 | ||
712 | @item | |
713 | Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code. | |
714 | ||
715 | @item | |
716 | Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for | |
717 | hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses. | |
718 | ||
719 | @item | |
86f7c203 | 720 | Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular |
236fd60d | 721 | expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock |
3892ff9c GM |
722 | font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and |
723 | @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers. | |
b930de78 | 724 | |
6bf7aab6 | 725 | @item |
3892ff9c GM |
726 | Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, |
727 | and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{} | |
6bf7aab6 | 728 | bibliography files. |
177c0ea7 | 729 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
730 | @item |
731 | Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic | |
732 | mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files. | |
733 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
734 | @item |
735 | Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode. | |
736 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
737 | @item |
738 | Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional | |
739 | blackbox game. | |
740 | ||
741 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
742 | Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel |
743 | Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then | |
744 | visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a | |
745 | package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing | |
746 | in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el}, | |
747 | for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program, | |
748 | with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep} | |
749 | command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker; | |
6bf7aab6 | 750 | @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload |
236fd60d GM |
751 | files. |
752 | ||
753 | @item | |
754 | Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
755 | |
756 | @item | |
757 | David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new | |
758 | major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major | |
759 | modes. | |
760 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
761 | @item |
762 | Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding | |
763 | command with its arguments. | |
764 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 765 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
766 | Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting |
767 | Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for | |
768 | buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens; | |
6bf7aab6 | 769 | @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format, |
67ffa16f CY |
770 | used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a |
771 | terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an | |
772 | essential utility. | |
6bf7aab6 | 773 | |
d282b1c2 | 774 | @item |
431e8396 | 775 | Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21 |
67ffa16f CY |
776 | development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display |
777 | engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers | |
778 | facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser; | |
779 | @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode; | |
236fd60d GM |
780 | @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips; |
781 | @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file; | |
782 | and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor. | |
b930de78 | 783 | |
b930de78 | 784 | @item |
67ffa16f | 785 | Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He added |
236fd60d GM |
786 | support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server |
787 | to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and | |
788 | minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS}, | |
789 | a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system; | |
790 | @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible | |
791 | text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3} | |
792 | conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context | |
793 | diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets; and | |
794 | @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files. | |
d282b1c2 | 795 | |
6bf7aab6 | 796 | @item |
b930de78 EZ |
797 | Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and |
798 | elsewhere. | |
799 | ||
236fd60d GM |
800 | @item |
801 | Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote | |
802 | @file{robin.el}, another input method. | |
803 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
804 | @item |
805 | Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings | |
806 | with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:} | |
807 | URLs. | |
808 | ||
809 | @item | |
fcf27a65 | 810 | Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote |
236fd60d GM |
811 | @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables; |
812 | @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and | |
813 | @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings. | |
b930de78 EZ |
814 | |
815 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
816 | Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el}, |
817 | a mode for editing makefiles. | |
b930de78 EZ |
818 | |
819 | @item | |
820 | Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor | |
821 | mode for selectively displaying blocks of text. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
822 | |
823 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 824 | Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also |
9dfa7983 | 825 | wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text; |
67ffa16f | 826 | @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh} |
9dfa7983 GM |
827 | and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying |
828 | the status of version-controlled directories. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
829 | |
830 | @item | |
831 | Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation. | |
832 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
833 | @item |
834 | Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer | |
835 | history between Emacs sessions. | |
836 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
837 | @item |
838 | Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit | |
839 | dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer. | |
840 | ||
841 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
842 | Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP |
843 | support. | |
844 | ||
c3a37bd2 CY |
845 | @item |
846 | Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and | |
847 | generating JSON files. | |
848 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
849 | @item |
850 | Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23. | |
851 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
852 | @item |
853 | Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail | |
854 | splitting mechanism. | |
855 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
856 | @item |
857 | Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing | |
858 | embedded text-based tables. | |
859 | ||
860 | @item | |
861 | Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for | |
862 | the MIX assembly language. | |
863 | ||
b930de78 | 864 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
865 | David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a |
866 | URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a | |
867 | game to fill all squares on the field. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
868 | |
869 | @item | |
236fd60d | 870 | Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
871 | |
872 | @item | |
873 | Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of | |
874 | the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle. | |
875 | ||
b930de78 | 876 | @item |
3892ff9c GM |
877 | William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne |
878 | Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility; | |
879 | @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with | |
880 | Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL | |
881 | package. | |
b930de78 EZ |
882 | |
883 | @item | |
884 | Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus. | |
885 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
886 | @item |
887 | Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find | |
888 | the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable. | |
889 | ||
890 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
891 | Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing |
892 | configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating | |
893 | copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for | |
894 | executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing | |
895 | shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for | |
896 | writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode | |
897 | for simultaneous two-column editing. | |
6bf7aab6 | 898 | |
236fd60d GM |
899 | Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells), |
900 | for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular | |
901 | expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el}, | |
3892ff9c GM |
902 | support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el} |
903 | (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}. | |
b930de78 EZ |
904 | |
905 | @item | |
906 | Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC | |
907 | 1460) interface for Emacs. | |
908 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
909 | @item |
910 | Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit | |
911 | widgets. | |
912 | ||
3892ff9c GM |
913 | @item |
914 | Fran@,{c}ois Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el}, | |
915 | support for PO translation files. | |
916 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
917 | @item |
918 | Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the | |
919 | Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation. | |
920 | ||
b930de78 | 921 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
922 | David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of |
923 | recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a | |
924 | minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and | |
925 | @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data | |
926 | structures. | |
b930de78 | 927 | |
6bf7aab6 | 928 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 929 | Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which |
6bf7aab6 | 930 | runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results. |
b930de78 | 931 | He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
932 | |
933 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
934 | Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode |
935 | for editing Fortran code. | |
b930de78 | 936 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
937 | @item |
938 | Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in | |
939 | bibliography files by keyword. | |
940 | ||
941 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
942 | Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS |
943 | source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el}, | |
944 | a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in | |
945 | Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code; | |
946 | @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards; | |
6bf7aab6 | 947 | @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like |
67ffa16f CY |
948 | @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for |
949 | finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el}, | |
950 | code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el}, | |
951 | functions for loading and unloading Emacs features; | |
952 | @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers | |
953 | used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the | |
954 | @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from | |
955 | which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
956 | |
957 | @item | |
236fd60d | 958 | Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support, |
14731c8f | 959 | with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum |
3892ff9c GM |
960 | Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}), |
961 | Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara | |
962 | Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}). | |
963 | Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed | |
964 | to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William | |
965 | F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob | |
966 | Gore. | |
b930de78 | 967 | |
107bb0f4 KS |
968 | @item |
969 | David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the | |
970 | system's designated mail client. | |
971 | ||
b930de78 | 972 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
973 | Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name |
974 | of the current function in the mode line. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
975 | |
976 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
977 | Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing |
978 | an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor, | |
979 | and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC | |
980 | VT line of terminals. | |
6bf7aab6 | 981 | |
431e8396 EZ |
982 | @item |
983 | Nick Roberts wrote @file{gdb-ui.el}, the graphical user interface to | |
236fd60d | 984 | GDB; and @file{t-mouse.el}, mouse support in text terminals. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
985 | |
986 | @item | |
987 | Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text | |
988 | into ``handwriting.'' | |
989 | ||
990 | @item | |
236fd60d | 991 | Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
992 | |
993 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 994 | Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and |
b930de78 | 995 | DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
996 | |
997 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
998 | Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window |
999 | configurations so you can move back to them. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1000 | |
b930de78 | 1001 | @item |
2d3328f2 | 1002 | Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has |
b930de78 EZ |
1003 | contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs. |
1004 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1005 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
1006 | Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including |
1007 | @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el}, | |
1008 | support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1009 | |
431e8396 EZ |
1010 | @item |
1011 | Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking | |
1012 | references in Info files. | |
1013 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1014 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1015 | James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1016 | dynamic word completion. |
1017 | ||
1018 | @item | |
1019 | Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor. | |
1020 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1021 | @item |
1022 | Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in | |
1023 | message signatures. | |
1024 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1025 | @item |
1026 | William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet} | |
1027 | sessions within Emacs. | |
1028 | ||
1029 | @item | |
2d3328f2 | 1030 | Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1031 | laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for |
1032 | looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer. | |
1033 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1034 | @item |
1035 | Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for | |
1036 | editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson. | |
1037 | ||
1038 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 1039 | Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1040 | |
1041 | @item | |
1042 | Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played | |
236fd60d GM |
1043 | against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle. |
1044 | ||
1045 | @item | |
1046 | Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1047 | |
b930de78 | 1048 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1049 | Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the |
1050 | Solitaire game. | |
b930de78 EZ |
1051 | |
1052 | @item | |
1053 | Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating | |
236fd60d GM |
1054 | ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package |
1055 | for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer; | |
1056 | @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a | |
1057 | package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and | |
1058 | @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also | |
1059 | wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:). | |
b930de78 | 1060 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1061 | @item |
1062 | Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects. | |
1063 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1064 | @item |
1065 | Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining | |
1066 | @file{TODO} list files. | |
1067 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1068 | @item |
2d3328f2 | 1069 | Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1070 | as you type. |
1071 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1072 | @item |
1073 | Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting | |
1074 | windows based on their geometrical position on the frame. | |
1075 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1076 | @item |
1077 | Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited | |
1078 | commercial email. | |
1079 | ||
1080 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
1081 | Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show |
1082 | recent editing changes. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1083 | |
1084 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 1085 | Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running |
3892ff9c GM |
1086 | interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for |
1087 | running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall); | |
1088 | @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes; | |
1089 | @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1090 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1091 | @item |
1092 | Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code. | |
1093 | ||
1094 | @item | |
1095 | Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating | |
1096 | mostly-constant data. | |
1097 | ||
1098 | @item | |
1099 | Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive | |
1100 | help for key bindings. | |
1101 | ||
1102 | @item | |
1103 | Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code. | |
1104 | ||
1105 | @item | |
1106 | David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs | |
1107 | Lisp interpreter as a subprocess. | |
1108 | ||
1109 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 1110 | Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1111 | |
1112 | @item | |
1113 | William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe | |
1114 | files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files | |
1115 | to an extant Emacs job to be edited. | |
1116 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1117 | @item |
1118 | Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control | |
1119 | package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends. | |
1120 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1121 | @item |
1122 | Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for | |
1123 | selecting regions to follow many other systems. | |
1124 | ||
b930de78 | 1125 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1126 | Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU |
1127 | Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous | |
1128 | periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has | |
1129 | written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus; | |
236fd60d | 1130 | @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files; |
3892ff9c | 1131 | @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code; |
b930de78 | 1132 | @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in |
3892ff9c | 1133 | color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode. |
b930de78 EZ |
1134 | |
1135 | @item | |
1136 | Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package | |
1137 | maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and | |
1138 | @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight. | |
1139 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1140 | @item |
1141 | Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for | |
1142 | browsing indices made from buffer contents. | |
1143 | ||
1144 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
1145 | Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual |
1146 | cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1147 | |
1148 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1149 | Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains |
1150 | that package since Ispell 3.1 release. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1151 | |
431e8396 EZ |
1152 | @item |
1153 | Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine, | |
67ffa16f CY |
1154 | process support, and networking support. He also wrote |
1155 | @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data; | |
236fd60d | 1156 | CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key |
67ffa16f | 1157 | bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files |
236fd60d GM |
1158 | quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and |
1159 | @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility. | |
431e8396 | 1160 | |
b930de78 EZ |
1161 | @item |
1162 | Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C, | |
1e487ff8 | 1163 | C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code. |
b930de78 | 1164 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1165 | @item |
1166 | Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he | |
1167 | really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. | |
1168 | ||
1169 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1170 | Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs |
1171 | buffers. | |
1172 | ||
1173 | @item | |
8fc77801 | 1174 | Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for |
b930de78 EZ |
1175 | editing text in Slovak language. |
1176 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
1177 | @item |
1178 | Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through | |
1179 | the keyboard. | |
1180 | ||
b930de78 | 1181 | @item |
431e8396 | 1182 | Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing |
99cf5b74 | 1183 | image files as ``thumbnails.'' |
b930de78 | 1184 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1185 | @item |
1186 | Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command | |
1187 | which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby | |
1188 | words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping | |
1189 | support. | |
1190 | ||
236fd60d GM |
1191 | @item |
1192 | Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support. | |
1193 | ||
c3a37bd2 CY |
1194 | @item |
1195 | Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line | |
1196 | numbers in the left margin. | |
1197 | ||
b930de78 | 1198 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1199 | Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing |
1200 | Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs | |
b930de78 EZ |
1201 | subprocess. |
1202 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
1203 | @item |
1204 | Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to | |
1205 | bug reports. | |
1206 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
1207 | @item |
1208 | Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL. | |
67ffa16f | 1209 | |
b930de78 EZ |
1210 | @item |
1211 | Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer | |
3892ff9c GM |
1212 | Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with |
1213 | Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication | |
1214 | and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG) | |
1215 | package, for GnuPG and PGP support. | |
b930de78 | 1216 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1217 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1218 | Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that |
1219 | was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote | |
1220 | @file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code; @file{rmailsort.el}, a | |
1221 | package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders; @file{metamail.el}, an | |
1222 | interface to the Metamail program; @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File | |
1223 | mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an mh-e interface for Gnus; | |
1224 | @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface for Gnus; and | |
1225 | @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones. | |
b930de78 EZ |
1226 | |
1227 | @item | |
1228 | Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package. | |
1229 | ||
1230 | @item | |
2d3328f2 | 1231 | Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for |
236fd60d GM |
1232 | operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus |
1233 | (q.v.@:). | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1234 | |
1235 | @item | |
1236 | Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code. | |
1237 | ||
1238 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1239 | Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote |
1240 | @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports | |
1241 | of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1242 | |
1243 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
1244 | Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for |
1245 | filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode | |
1246 | providing electric accent keys. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1247 | |
431e8396 | 1248 | @item |
236fd60d | 1249 | Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1250 | |
1251 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
1252 | Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for |
1253 | working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing | |
1254 | C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, | |
236fd60d | 1255 | Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler |
67ffa16f CY |
1256 | for Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual |
1257 | pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in | |
1258 | lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug | |
1259 | reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for | |
1260 | quoting sections of mail messages and news articles. | |
b930de78 | 1261 | |
236fd60d GM |
1262 | @item |
1263 | Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR | |
1264 | grammar files. | |
1265 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1266 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1267 | Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face |
1268 | support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote | |
6bf7aab6 | 1269 | @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between |
67ffa16f CY |
1270 | sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a |
1271 | given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level | |
1272 | support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support; | |
b930de78 | 1273 | @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS |
67ffa16f CY |
1274 | port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed |
1275 | archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using | |
1276 | the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions | |
1277 | for use under MS-DOS. | |
b930de78 | 1278 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1279 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1280 | Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:); |
1281 | @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after | |
1282 | resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for | |
1283 | extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions | |
1284 | from Jamie Zawinski. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1285 | |
1286 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1287 | Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major |
1288 | mode for editing VHDL source code. | |
1289 | ||
1290 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
1291 | John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text |
1292 | according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast | |
1293 | buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of | |
1294 | time spent on projects; the Baha'i calendar support; | |
c3a37bd2 | 1295 | @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility; |
236fd60d GM |
1296 | @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember; |
1297 | @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified | |
1298 | Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented | |
1299 | entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:). | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1300 | |
1301 | @item | |
1302 | Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from | |
1303 | RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format. | |
1304 | ||
1305 | @item | |
1306 | Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse | |
236fd60d | 1307 | selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1308 | the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point. |
1309 | ||
67ffa16f CY |
1310 | @item |
1311 | Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor. | |
1312 | ||
b930de78 | 1313 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1314 | Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system; |
1315 | making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@: | |
1316 | Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various | |
1317 | MH-E components. | |
b930de78 | 1318 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1319 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1320 | Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1321 | merging two versions of a file. |
1322 | ||
b930de78 | 1323 | @item |
236fd60d | 1324 | Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing |
b930de78 EZ |
1325 | manual pages without the @code{man} command. |
1326 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1327 | @item |
1328 | Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder | |
1329 | to exit with valuable buffers unsaved. | |
1330 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
1331 | @item |
1332 | Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU | |
107bb0f4 | 1333 | linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode. |
431e8396 EZ |
1334 | |
1335 | @item | |
1336 | Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track | |
236fd60d GM |
1337 | of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine |
1338 | if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package. | |
431e8396 | 1339 | |
107bb0f4 KS |
1340 | @item |
1341 | Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client. | |
67ffa16f | 1342 | |
b930de78 | 1343 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
1344 | Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major |
1345 | mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote | |
1346 | @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode | |
1347 | terminal. | |
b930de78 EZ |
1348 | |
1349 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
1350 | Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text; |
1351 | @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that | |
1352 | uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for | |
67ffa16f | 1353 | adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files. |
b930de78 EZ |
1354 | |
1355 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
1356 | Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to |
1357 | zone out in front of Emacs. | |
b930de78 | 1358 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1359 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1360 | Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and |
1361 | Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which | |
236fd60d GM |
1362 | implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and |
1363 | @file{rxvt.el}. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1364 | |
1365 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
1366 | Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections. |
1367 | With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used | |
1368 | from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package | |
1369 | that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and | |
1370 | @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands | |
1371 | for tar files. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1372 | |
73cae835 | 1373 | @item |
9dfa7983 | 1374 | Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons. |
73cae835 | 1375 | |
b930de78 | 1376 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1377 | Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing |
1378 | binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME | |
1379 | messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package; | |
1380 | @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and | |
236fd60d GM |
1381 | @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several |
1382 | other Gnus components. | |
b930de78 | 1383 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1384 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1385 | Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}. |
6bf7aab6 | 1386 | |
236fd60d GM |
1387 | @item |
1388 | Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}. | |
1389 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1390 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1391 | Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the |
6bf7aab6 | 1392 | VI text editor. |
a73534a9 GM |
1393 | |
1394 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1395 | Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps |
1396 | with visual feedback. | |
fcf27a65 | 1397 | |
d621caf7 GM |
1398 | @end itemize |
1399 | ||
ab5796a9 MB |
1400 | @ignore |
1401 | arch-tag: bb1d0fa4-0240-4992-b5d4-8602d1e3d4ba | |
1402 | @end ignore |