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-@c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
-written substantial portions.
+written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have
+reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
+We thank them for their generosity as well.
+
+This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
+feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
+please report that as a manual bug. More comprehensive information is
+available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
+@file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
@c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
@c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
@c that many users would notice and consider important.
+@c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
+@c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
+@c emacs.texi is used.
@itemize @bullet
@item
-Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well as
-@file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally
-available from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse
-commands through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements
-customization commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a
-citation-parsing facility for news articles); and @file{cpp.el}, which
-hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
-conditionals.
+Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
+@file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
+from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
+through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
+commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
+news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
+which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
+conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
+@file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
+@file{gnus-soup.el}.
@item
Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
@acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
@item
-Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic
-decompression and recompression for compressed files.
+Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
+providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
+files.
@item
Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
interface. He and Kai Gro@ss{}johann wrote the Tramp package, which
provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
-other network protocols.
+other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
+@file{tramp-cache.el}.
@item
Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
implemented support for X11.
@item
-Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting
-image files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the
-minibuffer default value when appropriate; @file{button.el}, the
-library that implements clickable buttons; and @file{face-remap.el}, a
-package for changing the default face in individual buffers.
+Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
+files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
+default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
+@code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
+depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
+@file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
+individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.
@item
David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
@item
Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
-footnotes in email messages, and @file{gnus-audio.el} which provides
-sound effects for Gnus.
+footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
+@file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
+@file{gnus-setup.el}.
+
+@item
+Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
+Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
+Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
+Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
+Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
+ERC distribution).
@item
-Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, David Edmondson, Andreas Fuchs,
-Mario Lang, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, and Alex Schroeder wrote ERC,
-an advanced Internet Relay Chat client.
+Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
+Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
+NeXTstep port of Emacs.
@item
-Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote @file{profile.el}, to time Emacs Lisp functions.
+Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
@item
-Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
+Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
+Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
@item
-Ray Blaak wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing Delphi (Object
-Pascal) source code.
+Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
+mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
@item
Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
-terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals.
+terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
+@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
@item
Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
output.
@item
-Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack}, a library for tracking
+Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
the ``generic mode'' feature.
@item
-Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs.
+Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
+@file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
+co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
@item
Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
Emacs's outline modes.
-@c @item
-@c Vincent Broman wrote @file{ada.el}, a mode for editing Ada code
-@c (since replaced by @file{ada-mode.el}).
-
@item
David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
tabular data.
@item
Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
-manipulating object collections.
+manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
+Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
@item
Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
-Emacs Lisp functions, and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
+Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
Lisp.
@item
-Chris Chase and Carsten Dominik wrote @file{idlwave.el}, an editing mode
-for IDL and WAVE CL.
+Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
+for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
+
+@item
+Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
+@file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
+and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.
@item
-Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el} and @file{makeinfo.el}, modes
-and utilities for working with Texinfo files; and @file{page-ext.el},
-commands for extended page handling.
+Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
+for Korean Hanja.
@item
Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
-improvements to the Emacs display engine and wrote @file{longlines.el}
-a minor mode for wrapping long lines.
+improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai
+Gro@ss{}johann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor
+mode for wrapping long lines.
@item
James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
use it, Snake and Tetris.
+@item
+Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
+it is analysed for spam.
+
@item
Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
files as ``thumbnails.''
+@item
+Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
+(@file{notifications.el}).
+
+@item
+Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
+source tree to HTML.
+
@item
Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
@item
-Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up
-labels and cross-references in La@TeX{} documents, and @file{org.el},
-a mode for maintaining notes, todo lists, and project planning.
+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.
@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 (@file{ada-mode.el}).
+Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
@item
Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
@item
-David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el}, an interface to the Mairix
-indexing tool.
+David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
+interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
@item
Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
@item
Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
-editors, and @file{scroll-lock.el} (now @file{scroll-all.el}) a mode
-for scrolling several buffers together.
+editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
+together.
@item
Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
@file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
-the doc string for the Lisp function near point. With Roland McGrath,
-he wrote @file{rsz-mini.el}, a minor mode to automatically resize the
-minibuffer to fit the text it contains.
+the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
+
+@item
+Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
@item
Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
-@file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LED's on
+@file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
-@file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el}, @file{latin-1.el},
+@file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
@file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
@item
@item
David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
-@code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool;
-@file{complete.el}, a partial completion mechanism; and
-@file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing keyboard macros.
+@code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
+maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
+completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
+keyboard macros.
@item
Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
@file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
-files; and @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces.
+files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
+@file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
@item
Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
@item
Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{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.
+characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
+
+@item
+Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
+as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
@item
Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
-@item
-Chris Hanson wrote @file{netuname.el}, a package to use HP-UX's Remote
-File Access facility from Emacs.
-
@item
Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
format of Unicode.
@item
-Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}).
+Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
@item
Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
expansion package.
@item
-Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode.
+Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
+DVI documents.
@item
Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
@item
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
-wrote many of its parts.
+wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
+Emacs: @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. Components of
+Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
+Kevin Greiner, Kai Gro@ss{}johann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
+L@"{u}decke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
+Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
+Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
@item
Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
@item
Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
+@item
+Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
+command-line.
+
@item
Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
-diary entries to and from the iCalendar format, and
-@file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker.
+diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
+@file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
+@file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
@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
-by dragging mode lines and vertical window separators with the mouse.
+Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
@item
Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
@item
Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
-Name System master files; @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for
-interpreting RFC2646 formatted text in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a
-package for customizing the fringe; @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp
-library for talking to IMAP servers; @file{nnimap}, the IMAP back-end
-for Gnus; and @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication
-facility.
+Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
+@file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
+in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
+@file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
+@file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
+back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
+@file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
+S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
+for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
@item
Arne J@o{}rgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
+@item
+Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
+control system.
+
@item
Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
mail with SMTP.
@item
-David Kaufman wrote @file{yow.c}, an essential utility program for the
-hopelessly pinheaded.
+Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
+control system.
@item
Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
@item
Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
-languages.
+languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
+
+@item
+Taro Kawagishi implented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
+wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
+authentication support.
@item
Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
buffers.
@item
-Michael Kifer wrote @file{ediff.el}, an interactive interface to the
-@command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs, and
+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.
@item
editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
@file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
-@c We're not using his backquote.el any more.
@item
Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
Emacs.
@item
-Pavel Kobiakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
-on-the-fly syntax checking.
+Karel Kl@'{@dotless{i}}@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
+Security-Enchanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
@item
-Larry K.@: Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail
-directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format.
+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.
+
+@item
+Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
+on-the-fly syntax checking.
@item
David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
menu support.
@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
-of the @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a
-standard program.
+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
+program.
@item
-Geoff Kuenning wrote Emacs 19's @file{ispell.el}, based on work by Ken
-Stevens and others.
+Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
@item
David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support 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; @file{eval-reg.el}, a re-implementation of @code{eval-region}
-in Emacs Lisp; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor
-mode.
+objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
+He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
@item
-James R.@: Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system.
+Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
+editing JavaScript.
@item
Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
-@code{ps-print}, a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to
-PostScript printers; @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text
-into columns; @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.
+@code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
+a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
+@file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
+@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.
@item
Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
@item
Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
-for buffer selection, and rewrote @file{dabbrev.el}.
+for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
+@file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
@item
Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
files.
@item
-Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows Emacs
-to run on graphical and text-only terminals simultaneously.
+Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
+searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
+directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
+creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
+
+@item
+K@'{a}roly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which
+allows Emacs to run on graphical and text-only terminals
+simultaneously.
+
+@item
+Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
+control annotation.
@item
Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
-including those in @file{code-pages.el} and the various UTF-7 and
-UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote @code{autoarg-mode}, a global
-minor mode whereby digit keys supply prefix arguments;
-@code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad numeric keys to
-digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing Autoconf
-files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
+including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
+@code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
+prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
+numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
+Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
@file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
-the current window on which point is; @file{latin-8.el} and
-@file{latin-9.el}, which set up case-conversion and syntax tables for
-the ISO Latin-8 and Latin-9 character sets; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
+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{refill.el}, a mode for
+by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
+for the Python programming language; @file{refill.el}, a mode for
automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors;
-@file{smiley-ems.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces;
+@file{smiley.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces;
@file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing mode-dependent symbol
-completion; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of
-the Emacs tool bar.
+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. He also wrote
-@file{checkdoc.el}, for checking doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs;
-@file{dframe.el}, providing dedicatd frame support modes; and
-@file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to place images over text.
+Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
+doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
+dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
+place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc; and
+the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
+package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
+Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
+Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
@item
Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
@item
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.
+used by the @code{calendar} package.
@item
Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
@item
Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
-expression from a list of strings. He also extended @file{comint.el},
-originally written by Olin Shivers.
+expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
+font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
+@file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
@item
-Bengt Martensson, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, and Stefan
-Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
+Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
+and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
bibliography files.
@item
Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
+@item
+Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
+
@item
Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
blackbox game.
@item
-Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el}, 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{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
+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; and @file{upd-copyr.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance
-of copyright notices in source code.
+files.
+
+@item
+Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
@item
David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
command with its arguments.
-@item
-Wayne Mesard wrote @file{hscroll.el} which does horizontal scrolling
-automatically.
-
-@item
-Brad Miller wrote @file{gnus-gl.el}, a Gnus interface for GroupLens.
-
@item
Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
@file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
-@file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips; and
-@file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} files.
+@file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
+@file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
+and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
@item
Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. 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}, a directory-level front end to the CVS version control
-system; @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing
-invisible text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving
-@code{diff3} conflicts; and @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing
-and editing context diffs.
+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},
+a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
+@file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
+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; and @file{mpc.el}, a
+client for the ``Music Player Daemon''.
@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{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 package for parsing email
-headers, and @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
+@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.
@item
-Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{makefile.el} (now
-@file{make-mode.el}), a mode for editing makefiles.
+Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
+a mode for editing makefiles.
@item
Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
@item
Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
-wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text, and
+wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
@file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
-and @code{winterm} terminal emulators.
+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.
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.
+
@item
Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
splitting mechanism.
game to fill all squares on the field.
@item
-Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys;
-@file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows; and
-@file{sun-fns.el} and @file{sun-mouse.el}, providing mouse support for
-Sun Windows.
+Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
@item
Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
@item
-William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el}, a MIME media types
-configuration facility, @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting
-mouse wheels, and the URL package.
+William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
+Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
+@file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
+Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
+package.
@item
Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
for simultaneous two-column editing.
-Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el}, originally written by Joe Wells,
-and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el}, support for
-Wyse 50 terminals.
+Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
+for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
+expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
+support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
+(q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
@item
Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
widgets.
+@item
+Fran@,{c}ois Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
+support for PO translation files.
+
@item
Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
@item
-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.
-
-@item
-Mukesh Prasad wrote @file{vmsproc.el}, a facility for running
-asynchronous subprocesses on VMS.
-
-@item
-Marko Rahamaa wrote @file{latin-3.el}, code which sets up
-case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-3 character set.
+Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
+for editing Fortran code.
@item
Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
@item
-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.
+Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive 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
+Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
+Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
+to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
+F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
+Gore.
@item
David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
VT line of terminals.
@item
-Nick Roberts wrote @file{gdb-ui.el}, the graphical user interface to
-GDB.
-
-@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
-for using Emacs within VMS MAIL.
-
-@item
-John Robinson wrote @file{bg-mouse.el}, support for the mouse on the BBN
-Bitgraph terminal.
+Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
+terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
+Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
+@file{gdb-ui.el}.
@item
Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
into ``handwriting.''
@item
-William Rosenblatt wrote @file{float.el}, implementing a floating-point
-numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers.
+Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
@item
Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
@item
Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
-against Emacs, and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
+against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
+
+@item
+Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
@item
-Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an Emacs Lisp implementation of
-the Solitaire game.
+Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
+Solitaire game.
@item
Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
-ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces, and @file{sql.el}, a package
-for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer.
+ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
+for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
+@file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
+package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
+@file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
+wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
@item
Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
@item
Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
-interactive command-line- oriented subprocesses; @file{cmuscheme.el},
-for running inferior Scheme processes; @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running
-inferior Lisp process; and @file{shell.el}, for running inferior
-shells.
+interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
+running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
+@file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
+@file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
@item
Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
-@file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code; and
+@file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
+@file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
@file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
-color.
+color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
@item
Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
-@item
-Jonathan Stigelman wrote @file{hilit19.el}, a package providing
-automatic highlighting in source code buffers, mail readers, and other
-contexts.
-
@item
Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
process support, and networking support. He also wrote
@file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
-@file{cua.el}, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
+CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
-quickly; and @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
+quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
+@file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
@item
Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal 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
Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
the keyboard.
Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
image files as ``thumbnails.''
-@item
-Jens T.@: Berger Thielemann wrote @file{word-help.el}, which is
-part of the basis for @file{info-look.el}.
-
@item
Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
support.
@item
-Jim Thompson wrote @file{ps-print.el}, which converts
-Emacs text to PostScript.
+Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
@item
Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
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.
+
@item
Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
@item
Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
-Security protocol, and the PGG package adding GnuPG and PGP support.
+Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
+Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
+and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
+package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
@item
-Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news. He
-also wrote @file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code;
-@file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
-@file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
-@file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el},
-an mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post
-interface for Gnus; @file{tcp.el}, emulation of the
-@code{open-network-stream} function for some Emacs configurations
-which lack it; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing
-with time zones.
+Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
+was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
+@file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code; @file{rmailsort.el}, a
+package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders; @file{metamail.el}, an
+interface to the Metamail program; @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File
+mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an mh-e interface for Gnus;
+@file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface for Gnus; and
+@file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones.
@item
Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
@item
Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
-operations on rectangle regions of text.
+operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
+(q.v.@:).
@item
Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
@item
-Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a
-mode for filling in forms.
+Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
+filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
+providing electric accent keys.
@item
-Colin Walters wrote @file{ibuffer.el}, a mode for operating on
-buffers.
+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 new profiler
+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
+grammar files.
+
@item
Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
for use under MS-DOS.
@item
-Joseph Brian Wells wrote @file{apropos.el}, a command to find
-commands, functions, and variables whose names contain matches for a
-regular expression; @file{resume.el}, support for processing
-command-line arguments after resuming a suspended Emacs job; and
-@file{mail-extr.el}, a package for extracting names and addresses from
-mail headers, with contributions from Jamie Zawinski.
+Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
+@file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
+resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
+extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
+from Jamie Zawinski.
@item
Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
mode for editing VHDL source code.
@item
-John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning
-text according to regular-expression based rules; @file{timeclock.el},
-a package for keeping track of time spent on projects;
+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;
@file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
-@file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember; and
-@code{eshell}, a command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp.
-
-@item
-Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from
-RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format.
+@file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
+@file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
+Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
+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
+selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
@item
Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
@item
-Bill Wohler wrote the Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
+Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
+making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
+Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
+MH-E components.
@item
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
+Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
manual pages without the @code{man} command.
@item
@item
Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
-of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code, and the SES spreadsheet
-package.
+of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
+if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
@item
Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
terminal.
@item
-Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text,
-@file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code which
-uses illegible identifier names, and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
+Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
+@file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
+uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
@item
@item
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
-(together with Kenichi Handa) @file{codepage.el}, a package for
-editing text encoded in DOS/Windows code pages.
+implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
+@file{rxvt.el}.
@item
Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
for tar files.
@item
-Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 22.
+Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
@item
Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
@file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
-@file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail.
+@file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
+other Gnus components.
@item
Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
+@item
+Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
+
@item
Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
VI text editor.
with visual feedback.
@end itemize
-
-Others too numerous to mention have reported and fixed bugs, and added
-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,
-please report that as a manual bug.
-
-@ignore
- arch-tag: bb1d0fa4-0240-4992-b5d4-8602d1e3d4ba
-@end ignore
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