@c -*- coding: iso-latin-1 -*-
@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@c
-@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
+@node Acknowledgments
@unnumbered Acknowledgments
Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
-news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
+news articles; @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
@file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
implemented support for X11.
+@item
+Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
+a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
+
@item
Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
@code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
@file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
-individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.
+individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. He
+also worked on an early version of the lexical binding code.
@item
David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
@item
Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
@file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
-and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.
+and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. He also
+wrote the ``Introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp'' manual.
@item
Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
@item
-Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
+Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He made many
improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
-@file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data.
+@file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
+and improved support for themes and packages.
@item
James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
it is analyzed for spam.
+@item
+Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
+generating JSON files.
+
@item
Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
@item
Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
-files as ``thumbnails.''
+files as ``thumbnails''.
@item
Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
source tree to HTML.
-@item
-Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
-new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
-
-@item
-Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
-@file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
-
@item
Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
text replace the current selection.
@item
Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
-cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
-(q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
-todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Jan Böcker, Lennart
-Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Daniel German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip
-Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima, Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
-Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley,
-and Piotr Zielinski also wrote various Org mode components.
+cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
+(q.v.@:). He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
+todo lists, and project planning. Bastien Guerry subsequently took
+over maintainership. Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
+Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S.@: Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
+Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
+Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
+Piotr Zielinski, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
+For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
@item
Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
@item
-Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
+Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
+
+@item
+Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
+other portability fixes to the C code; as well as his contributions
+to VC and the calendar.
@item
Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
@file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
flow control.
+@item
+Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
+Python programming language used in Emacs 24.3 onwards.
+
@item
Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
@file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
@item
Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
-as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
+as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.@:).
@item
Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
format of Unicode.
-@item
-Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
-
@item
Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
@code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
@item
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
-Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
+Emacs, including: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
@file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
@file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
-and @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs.
+@file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
+and implemented libxml2 support.
Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
@item
Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
-automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
+automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
@item
Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
-those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
+those databases to the format used by the @LaTeX{} text formatting package.
@item
Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
@item
Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
@command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
-Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
+Viper, another emulator of the VI editor.
@item
Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
@item
Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
-strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
-and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
+strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
@item
Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
@item
Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions 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
+@code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
program.
@item
@item
Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
-debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support;
-@file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp
-objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
-He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
+debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; and
+@file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. He also
+co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
@item
Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
@file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
@file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
-whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
-used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
+whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
@item
Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
@item
-Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows Emacs to
-run on graphical and text-only terminals simultaneously.
+Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
+Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
@item
Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
-by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
-for the Python programming language; @file{smiley.el}, a facility for
-displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing
-mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code
-execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of
-the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el},
-support for the Bazaar version control system.
+by setting up appropriate display tables; the version of
+@file{python.el} used prior to Emacs 24.3; @file{smiley.el}, a
+facility for displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library
+for performing mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el}
+for timing code execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control
+the display of the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote
+@file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar version control system.
@item
Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
+@item
+Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
+Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
+visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
+package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
+in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
+Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
+from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
+@code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
+question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
+maintenance of autoload files.
+
@item
Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
+@item
+Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
+
@item
Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
simple substitution ciphers.
Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
blackbox game.
-@item
-Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
-Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
-visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
-package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
-in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
-for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
-with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
-command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
-@file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
-files.
-
-@item
-Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
-
@item
David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
@item
-Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He added
+Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He added
support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
-@file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
-client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; and @file{pcase.el},
-implementing ML-style pattern matching.
+@file{bibtex-style.el} for Bib@TeX{} Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
+client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; @file{smie.el}, a generic
+indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
+matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
+and cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
+functions at runtime).
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
elsewhere.
-@item
-Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
-@file{robin.el}, another input method.
-
@item
Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
@item
Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
-@file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
-@file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
-@file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
+@file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
+@file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
+@file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
+
+@item
+Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
+@file{robin.el}, another input method.
@item
Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
+@item
+Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
+
@item
Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
the status of version-controlled directories.
-@item
-Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
-
@item
Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
history between Emacs sessions.
Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
support.
-@item
-Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
-generating JSON files.
-
@item
Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
@item
-Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
+Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
@item
Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
-into ``handwriting.''
+into ``handwriting''.
@item
Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
DSSSL code.
+@item
+Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24.
+
@item
Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
configurations so you can move back to them.
@item
Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
-image files as ``thumbnails.''
+image files as ``thumbnails''.
@item
Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
@item
Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
-subprocess.
-
-@item
-Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
-bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs package system.
+subprocess. Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
+clickable links to bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs
+package system.
@item
Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
(q.v.@:).
+@item
+Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
+
@item
Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
@item
-Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for
-working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing
-C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs,
-Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for
-Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual
-pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in
-lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug
-reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for
-quoting sections of mail messages and news articles.
+Barry Warsaw wrote @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing C, C@t{++},
+and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen,
+and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for Emacs Lisp
+programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual pages;
+@file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
+programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for
+lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting
+sections of mail messages and news articles.
@item
Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
-time spent on projects; the Baha'i calendar support;
+time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
@file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
@file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
@file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
@item
-Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
-selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
-the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
+Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
+finding the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) at point.
@item
Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
-@file{rxvt.el}.
+@file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text.
@item
Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
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