@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@c
-@c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
-@c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
-@c that users would notice and consider important.
@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
@chapter Acknowledgments
Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
-their public spirit, we list here, in alphabetical order, those who have
+their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
written substantial portions.
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Per Abhiddenware wrote @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility
-for news articles.
+@c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
+@c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
+@c that many users would notice and consider important.
+@itemize @bullet
@item
Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well as
@file{double.el} for typing accented characters not normally available
from the keyboard, @file{xt-mouse.el} which handles mouse commands
through Xterm, @file{gnus-cus.el} which implements customization
-commands for Gnus, and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of
+commands for Gnus, @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility
+for news articles and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of
C programs according to preprocessor conditionals.
@item
art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
@item
-Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic
+Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic
decompression and recompression for compressed files.
@item
Emacs.
@item
-Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{earcon.el}, a facility for sound effects
-for email and news messages, @file{footnote.el} which allows to include
+Steven L.@: Baur wrote
+@c If earcon.el actually works with Emacs 21, it isn't useful for lack
+@c of sound files. -- fx
+@c @file{earcon.el}, a facility for sound effects
+@c for email and news messages,
+@file{footnote.el} which lets you include
footnotes in email messages, and @file{gnus-audio.el} which provides
sound effects for Gnus.
buffer.
@item
-Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
+Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
that learns landmarks.
@item
@item
@file{locate.el} which interfaces to the @code{locate} command,
@item
-@file{find-lisp.el}, an emulation of the Unix @code{find} command in
-Emacs Lisp,
+@file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs Lisp emulation of the @code{find} program,
@item
@file{net-utils.el}, and
@item
@c (since replaced by @file{ada-mode.el}).
@item
-David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
+David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
tabular data.
@item
@item
James Clark wrote @file{sgml-mode.el}, a mode for editing SGML
documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures.
-@file{sgml-mode.el} was later adapted by Eric Raymond, Daniel Pfeiffer,
-and Francesco Potorti.
@item
Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
buffer names.
@item
-@c iftex
Torbj@"orn
-@c end iftex
-@c ifinfo
-@c Torbjorn
-@c end ifinfo
Einarsson contributed the Fortran 90 mode (@file{f90.el}).
@item
@item
Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
-the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@code{ASCII}
+the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-ASCII
characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition, and @file{latin-2.el}, code
which sets up case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-2
character set.
zone files.
@item
-Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for Mail-safe transformation
+Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
format of Unicode.
@item
@code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
@item
-Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to the MS-DOS operating system.
+Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
@item
Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
@item
Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
+@item
+Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
+
@item
Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game,
and @file{mldrag.el}, a package which allows the user to resize windows
within Emacs.
@item
-Larry K. Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail
+Larry K.@: Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail
directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format.
@item
@item
Sebastian Kremer wrote Emacs 19's @code{dired-mode}, with contributions
-by Lawrence R. Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation
+by Lawrence R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation
of the @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a
standard program.
@end itemize
@item
-James R. Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system.
+James R.@: Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system.
@item
Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:
case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-8 and Latin-9
character sets,
@item
-@file{latin1-disp.el}, a package that allows to display ISO 8859
+@file{latin1-disp.el}, a package that lets you display ISO 8859
characters on Latin-1 terminals by setting up appropriate display
tables,
@item
simple substitution ciphers.
@item
-Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
+Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
-generated by Edward M. Reingold's @code{calendar} package.
+generated by Edward M.@: Reingold's @code{calendar} package.
@item
Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
@file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context diffs.
@end itemize
-@item
-Keith Moore wrote @file{aixcc.lex}, a pre-processor designed to help
-Emacs parse the error messages produced by the AIX C compiler.
-
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
elsewhere.
URLs.
@item
-Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions, and has tested daily
-the latest source code up to and including Emacs version 20. He also
-wrote @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables,
+Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
+@file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables,
@file{latin-4.el} and @file{latin-5.el}, code which sets up
case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-4 and Latin-5
character sets, @file{mailheader.el}, a pacakage for parsing email
@item
@file{emacstool.c}, support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun Windows,
@item
-@file{sun.el}, keybindings for sunterm keys,
+@file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys,
@item
@file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and
@item
recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar.
@item
-Francesco A. Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
+Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
@item
-Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode for
+Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode for
editing FORTRAN code.
@c We're not distributing his tex-mode.el anymore; we're using Ed Reingold's.
bibliography files by keyword.
@item
-Eric S. Raymond wrote:
+Eric S.@: Raymond wrote:
@itemize @minus
@item
@end itemize
@item
-Edward M. Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support (try
+Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support (try
@kbd{M-x calendar}), with contributions from Stewart Clamen, Nachum
Dershowitz, Paul Eggert, Steve Fisk, Michael Kifer, and Lara Rios. Andy
Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold has also contributed to
@file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as have William
-F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore.
+F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore.
@item
-Alex Rezinsky contributed @file{which-func.el}, a mode that prints the
+Alex Rezinsky contributed @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the
name of the current function in the mode line.
@item
the DEC VT line of terminals.
@item
-Roland B. Roberts contributed much of the VMS support distributed with
-Emacs 19, along with Joseph M. Kelsey, and @file{vms-pmail.el}, support
+Roland B.@: Roberts contributed much of the VMS support distributed with
+Emacs 19, along with Joseph M.@: Kelsey, and @file{vms-pmail.el}, support
for using Emacs within VMS MAIL.
@item
numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers.
@item
-Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
+Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer.
@item
@file{sup-mouse.el}, support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
@item
-James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
+James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
dynamic word completion.
@item
editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
@item
-Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
+Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
@item
Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
@file{TODO} list files.
-@item
-Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs' XIM support.
-
@item
Manuel Serrano contributed the Flyspell package that does spell checking
as you type.
Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
@item
-Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
+Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
@item
William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamzal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
editing text in Slovak language.
+@item
+Naoto Takahashi wrote @file{utf-8.el}, support for encoding and
+decoding UTF-8 data.
+
@item
Taichi Kawabata wrote support for Devanagari script and the Indian
languages.
Bill Wohler wrote the Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
@item
-Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
+Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
merging two versions of a file.
@item
-Francis J.@: Wright wrote @code{WoMan}, a package for browsing Unix
+Francis J.@: Wright wrote @code{WoMan}, a package for browsing
manual pages without the @code{man} command.
@item
@end itemize
@item
-Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
+Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
@item
-Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
+Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
VI text editor.
@item
Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
with visual feedback.
+
+@c utf-8.el author?
@end itemize
Others too numerous to mention have reported and fixed bugs, and added
-features to many parts of Emacs. We thank them for their generosity as
-well.
+features to many parts of Emacs. (Many are mentioned in the
+@file{ChangeLog} files which are summarized in the file @file{AUTHORS}
+in the distribution.) We thank them for their generosity as well.
This list intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
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