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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
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3 @c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
5 @c
6 @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
8
9 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
11 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
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
16 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
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.
21
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.
25 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
26 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
27 @c emacs.texi is used.
28
29 @itemize @bullet
30 @item
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}.
41
42 @item
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
45
46 @item
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.
50
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
57 other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
58 @file{tramp-cache.el}.
59
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
65 @item
66 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
67 implemented support for X11.
68
69 @item
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.
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
87 Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
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}.
91
92 @item
93 Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
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).
99
100 @item
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.
107
108 @item
109 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
110 Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
111
112 @item
113 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
114 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
115
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
119 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
120 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
121 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
122
123 @item
124 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
125 buffer.
126
127 @item
128 Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
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
136 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
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
141 the ``generic mode'' feature.
142
143 @item
144 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
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}.
147
148 @item
149 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
150 Emacs's outline modes.
151
152 @item
153 David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
154 tabular data.
155
156 @item
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
166 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
167 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
168
169 @item
170 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
171 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
172 Lisp.
173
174 @item
175 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
176 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
177
178 @item
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.
182
183 @item
184 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
185 for Korean Hanja.
186
187 @item
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
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.
196
197 @item
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.
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
209 @item
210 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
211 it is analysed for spam.
212
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
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
224 @item
225 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
226 files as ``thumbnails.''
227
228 @item
229 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
230 source tree to HTML.
231
232 @item
233 Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
234 new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
235
236 @item
237 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
238 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
239
240 @item
241 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
242 text replace the current selection.
243
244 @item
245 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
246
247 @item
248 Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
249
250 @item
251 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
252 cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
253 (q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
254 todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Lennart Borgman,
255 Baoqiu Cui, Daniel German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip Jackson,
256 Tokuya Kameshima, Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte, Andy
257 Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, and Piotr Zielinski also wrote
258 various Org mode components.
259
260 @item
261 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
262 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
263
264 @item
265 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
266 pong game.
267
268 @item
269 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
270
271 @item
272 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
273
274 @item
275 Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
276
277 @item
278 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
279 folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
280 for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
281
282 @item
283 Torbj@"orn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
284
285 @item
286 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
287
288 @item
289 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
290 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
291
292 @item
293 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
294 code.
295
296 @item
297 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
298 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
299
300 @item
301 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
302 Language source code.
303
304 @item
305 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
306 Morse code.
307
308 @item
309 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
310 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
311 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
312
313 @item
314 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
315
316 @item
317 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
318 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
319 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
320 location in files between editing sessions.
321
322 @item
323 Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
324 editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
325 together.
326
327 @item
328 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
329 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
330 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
331 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
332
333 @item
334 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
335
336 @item
337 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
338
339 @item
340 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
341 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
342 flow control.
343
344 @item
345 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
346 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
347
348 @item
349 Juan Le@'{o}n Lahoz Garc@'{i}a wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
350 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
351
352 @item
353 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
354 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
355 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
356 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
357 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
358 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
359 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
360 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
361
362 @item
363 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
364 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
365 last-change time stamps in files.
366
367 @item
368 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
369 Gnus.
370
371 @item
372 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
373 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
374 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
375 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
376 keyboard macros.
377
378 @item
379 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
380 using a Lisp-like syntax.
381
382 @item
383 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
384 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
385 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
386 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
387 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
388 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
389 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
390
391 @item
392 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
393 taking the file name from the buffer.
394
395 @item
396 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
397
398 @item
399 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
400 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
401 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
402
403 @item
404 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
405 as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
406
407 @item
408 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
409 related to the currently visited file.
410
411 @item
412 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
413
414 @item
415 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
416 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
417 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
418 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
419 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
420 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
421 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
422 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
423 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
424
425 @item
426 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
427
428 @item
429 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
430 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
431 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
432 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
433 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
434 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
435 files and buffers without editing them.
436
437 @item
438 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
439 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
440
441 @item
442 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
443 format of Unicode.
444
445 @item
446 Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
447
448 @item
449 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
450 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
451 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
452
453 @item
454 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
455
456 @item
457 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
458 expansion package.
459
460 @item
461 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
462 DVI documents.
463
464 @item
465 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
466 template instantiations.
467
468 @item
469 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
470
471 @item
472 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
473 browser to display a URL.
474
475 @item
476 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
477 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
478 Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
479 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
480 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
481 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of
482 Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
483 Kevin Greiner, Kai Gro@ss{}johann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
484 L@"{u}decke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
485 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
486 Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
487
488 @item
489 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
490
491 @item
492 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
493
494 @item
495 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
496 command-line.
497
498 @item
499 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
500 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
501 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
502 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
503
504 @item
505 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
506
507 @item
508 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
509 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
510
511 @item
512 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
513 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
514 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
515 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
516 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
517 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
518 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
519 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
520 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
521 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
522
523 @item
524 Arne J@o{}rgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
525 automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
526
527 @item
528 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
529 control system.
530
531 @item
532 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
533 mail with SMTP.
534
535 @item
536 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
537 control system.
538
539 @item
540 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
541 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
542 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
543 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
544
545 @item
546 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
547 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
548
549 @item
550 Taro Kawagishi implented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
551 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
552 authentication support.
553
554 @item
555 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
556 buffers.
557
558 @item
559 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
560 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
561 Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
562
563 @item
564 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
565 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
566 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
567 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
568 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
569
570 @item
571 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
572 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
573 Emacs.
574
575 @item
576 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
577 strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
578 and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
579
580 @item
581 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
582 on-the-fly syntax checking.
583
584 @item
585 David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
586 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
587
588 @item
589 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
590 inline images.
591
592 @item
593 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
594 menu support.
595
596 @item
597 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
598 R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
599 @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
600 program.
601
602 @item
603 Geoff Kuenning and Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker
604 interface.
605
606 @item
607 David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
608 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
609
610 @item
611 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
612 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
613 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support;
614 @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp
615 objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
616 He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
617
618 @item
619 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
620 editing JavaScript.
621
622 @item
623 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
624 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
625 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
626 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
627 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
628 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
629 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
630 whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
631 used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
632
633 @item
634 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
635 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
636
637 @item
638 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
639 Emacs Lisp programs.
640
641 @item
642 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
643 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
644 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
645
646 @item
647 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
648 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
649 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
650 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
651 that show the same buffer.
652
653 @item
654 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
655 files.
656
657 @item
658 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
659 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
660 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
661 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
662
663 @item
664 K@'{a}roly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which
665 allows Emacs to run on graphical and text-only terminals
666 simultaneously.
667
668 @item
669 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
670 control annotation.
671
672 @item
673 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
674 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
675 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
676 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
677 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
678 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
679 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
680 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
681 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
682 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
683 for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
684 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
685 by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
686 for the Python programming language; @file{refill.el}, a mode for
687 automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors;
688 @file{smiley.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces;
689 @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing mode-dependent symbol
690 completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code execution; and
691 @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar.
692 With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar
693 version control system.
694
695 @item
696 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
697 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
698 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
699 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc; and
700 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
701 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
702 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
703 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
704
705 @item
706 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
707 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
708
709 @item
710 Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
711 simple substitution ciphers.
712
713 @item
714 Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
715 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
716 used by the @code{calendar} package.
717
718 @item
719 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
720 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
721 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
722
723 @item
724 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
725
726 @item
727 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
728 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
729
730 @item
731 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
732 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
733 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
734 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
735
736 @item
737 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
738 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
739 bibliography files.
740
741 @item
742 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
743 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
744
745 @item
746 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
747
748 @item
749 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
750 blackbox game.
751
752 @item
753 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
754 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
755 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
756 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
757 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
758 for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
759 with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
760 command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
761 @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
762 files.
763
764 @item
765 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
766
767 @item
768 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
769 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
770 modes.
771
772 @item
773 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
774 command with its arguments.
775
776 @item
777 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
778 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
779 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
780 @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
781 used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a
782 terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an
783 essential utility.
784
785 @item
786 Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
787 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
788 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
789 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
790 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
791 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
792 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
793 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
794
795 @item
796 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He added
797 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
798 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
799 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
800 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
801 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
802 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
803 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
804 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets; and
805 @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files.
806
807 @item
808 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
809 elsewhere.
810
811 @item
812 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
813 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
814
815 @item
816 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
817 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
818 URLs.
819
820 @item
821 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
822 @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
823 @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
824 @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
825
826 @item
827 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
828 a mode for editing makefiles.
829
830 @item
831 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
832 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
833
834 @item
835 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
836 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
837 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
838 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
839 the status of version-controlled directories.
840
841 @item
842 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
843
844 @item
845 Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
846 history between Emacs sessions.
847
848 @item
849 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
850 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
851
852 @item
853 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
854 support.
855
856 @item
857 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
858 generating JSON files.
859
860 @item
861 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
862
863 @item
864 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
865 splitting mechanism.
866
867 @item
868 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
869 embedded text-based tables.
870
871 @item
872 Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
873 the MIX assembly language.
874
875 @item
876 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
877 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
878 game to fill all squares on the field.
879
880 @item
881 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
882
883 @item
884 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
885 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
886
887 @item
888 William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
889 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
890 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
891 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
892 package.
893
894 @item
895 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
896
897 @item
898 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
899 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
900
901 @item
902 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
903 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
904 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
905 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
906 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
907 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
908 for simultaneous two-column editing.
909
910 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
911 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
912 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
913 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
914 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
915
916 @item
917 Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
918 1460) interface for Emacs.
919
920 @item
921 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
922 widgets.
923
924 @item
925 Fran@,{c}ois Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
926 support for PO translation files.
927
928 @item
929 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
930 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
931
932 @item
933 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
934 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
935 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
936 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
937 structures.
938
939 @item
940 Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
941 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
942 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
943
944 @item
945 Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
946 for editing Fortran code.
947
948 @item
949 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
950 bibliography files by keyword.
951
952 @item
953 Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
954 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
955 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
956 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
957 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
958 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
959 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
960 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
961 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
962 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
963 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
964 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
965 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
966 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
967
968 @item
969 Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
970 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
971 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
972 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
973 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
974 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
975 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
976 F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
977 Gore.
978
979 @item
980 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
981 system's designated mail client.
982
983 @item
984 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
985 of the current function in the mode line.
986
987 @item
988 Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing
989 an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor,
990 and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC
991 VT line of terminals.
992
993 @item
994 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
995 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
996 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
997 @file{gdb-ui.el}.
998
999 @item
1000 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1001 into ``handwriting.''
1002
1003 @item
1004 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1005
1006 @item
1007 Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1008 DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer.
1009
1010 @item
1011 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1012 configurations so you can move back to them.
1013
1014 @item
1015 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1016 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1017
1018 @item
1019 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1020 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
1021 support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
1022
1023 @item
1024 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1025 references in Info files.
1026
1027 @item
1028 James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1029 dynamic word completion.
1030
1031 @item
1032 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
1033
1034 @item
1035 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1036 message signatures.
1037
1038 @item
1039 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1040 sessions within Emacs.
1041
1042 @item
1043 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1044 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1045 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1046
1047 @item
1048 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1049 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1050
1051 @item
1052 Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1053
1054 @item
1055 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1056 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1057
1058 @item
1059 Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
1060
1061 @item
1062 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1063 Solitaire game.
1064
1065 @item
1066 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1067 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1068 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1069 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1070 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1071 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1072 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
1073
1074 @item
1075 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1076
1077 @item
1078 Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
1079 @file{TODO} list files.
1080
1081 @item
1082 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1083 as you type.
1084
1085 @item
1086 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1087 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1088
1089 @item
1090 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1091 commercial email.
1092
1093 @item
1094 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1095 recent editing changes.
1096
1097 @item
1098 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1099 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1100 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1101 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1102 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1103
1104 @item
1105 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1106
1107 @item
1108 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1109 mostly-constant data.
1110
1111 @item
1112 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1113 help for key bindings.
1114
1115 @item
1116 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1117
1118 @item
1119 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1120 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1121
1122 @item
1123 Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1124
1125 @item
1126 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1127 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1128 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1129
1130 @item
1131 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1132 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1133
1134 @item
1135 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1136 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1137
1138 @item
1139 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1140 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1141 periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
1142 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1143 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1144 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1145 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1146 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1147
1148 @item
1149 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1150 maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1151 @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1152
1153 @item
1154 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1155 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1156
1157 @item
1158 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
1159 cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1160
1161 @item
1162 Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
1163 that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
1164
1165 @item
1166 Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1167 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1168 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1169 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1170 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1171 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1172 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1173
1174 @item
1175 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1176 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1177
1178 @item
1179 Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1180 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1181
1182 @item
1183 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1184 buffers.
1185
1186 @item
1187 Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1188 editing text in Slovak language.
1189
1190 @item
1191 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1192 the keyboard.
1193
1194 @item
1195 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1196 image files as ``thumbnails.''
1197
1198 @item
1199 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1200 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1201 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1202 support.
1203
1204 @item
1205 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1206
1207 @item
1208 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1209 numbers in the left margin.
1210
1211 @item
1212 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1213 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1214 subprocess.
1215
1216 @item
1217 Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
1218 bug reports.
1219
1220 @item
1221 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1222
1223 @item
1224 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1225 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1226 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1227 and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1228 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1229
1230 @item
1231 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1232 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1233 @file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code; @file{rmailsort.el}, a
1234 package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders; @file{metamail.el}, an
1235 interface to the Metamail program; @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File
1236 mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an mh-e interface for Gnus;
1237 @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface for Gnus; and
1238 @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones.
1239
1240 @item
1241 Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1242
1243 @item
1244 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1245 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1246 (q.v.@:).
1247
1248 @item
1249 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1250
1251 @item
1252 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1253 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1254 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1255
1256 @item
1257 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1258 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1259 providing electric accent keys.
1260
1261 @item
1262 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1263
1264 @item
1265 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for
1266 working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing
1267 C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs,
1268 Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler
1269 for Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual
1270 pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in
1271 lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug
1272 reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for
1273 quoting sections of mail messages and news articles.
1274
1275 @item
1276 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1277 grammar files.
1278
1279 @item
1280 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1281 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1282 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1283 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1284 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1285 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1286 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1287 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1288 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1289 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1290 for use under MS-DOS.
1291
1292 @item
1293 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
1294 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1295 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1296 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1297 from Jamie Zawinski.
1298
1299 @item
1300 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1301 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1302
1303 @item
1304 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1305 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1306 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1307 time spent on projects; the Baha'i calendar support;
1308 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1309 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1310 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1311 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1312 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
1313
1314 @item
1315 Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from
1316 RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format.
1317
1318 @item
1319 Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
1320 selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
1321 the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
1322
1323 @item
1324 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1325
1326 @item
1327 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1328 making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
1329 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
1330 MH-E components.
1331
1332 @item
1333 Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1334 merging two versions of a file.
1335
1336 @item
1337 Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1338 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1339
1340 @item
1341 Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder
1342 to exit with valuable buffers unsaved.
1343
1344 @item
1345 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1346 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode.
1347
1348 @item
1349 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1350 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1351 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1352
1353 @item
1354 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1355
1356 @item
1357 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1358 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1359 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1360 terminal.
1361
1362 @item
1363 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1364 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1365 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1366 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1367
1368 @item
1369 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1370 zone out in front of Emacs.
1371
1372 @item
1373 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1374 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1375 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1376 @file{rxvt.el}.
1377
1378 @item
1379 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1380 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1381 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1382 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1383 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1384 for tar files.
1385
1386 @item
1387 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1388
1389 @item
1390 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1391 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1392 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1393 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1394 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1395 other Gnus components.
1396
1397 @item
1398 Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1399
1400 @item
1401 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1402
1403 @item
1404 Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1405 VI text editor.
1406
1407 @item
1408 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1409 with visual feedback.
1410
1411 @end itemize
1412
1413 @ignore
1414 arch-tag: bb1d0fa4-0240-4992-b5d4-8602d1e3d4ba
1415 @end ignore