-@c -*- coding: iso-latin-1 -*-
+@c -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@c
@node Acknowledgments
@acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
@item
-Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
+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
D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
-Avahi services; @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
-interface; and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
-storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
+Avahi services;
+and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
+storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
@file{tramp-cache.el}.
implemented support for X11.
@item
-Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
+Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
@item
Emacs.
@item
-Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
+Steven L. Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
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,
+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,
+Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schäfer,
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).
NeXTstep port of Emacs.
@item
-Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
+Stephen Berman wrote @file{todo-mode.el} (based on the original version
+by Oliver Seidel), a package for maintaining @file{TODO} list files.
@item
-Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
-Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
+Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
+
+@item
+Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{opascal.el}, a mode for editing
+Object Pascal source code.
@item
Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
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; and co-wrote
-@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
+@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.).
@item
Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
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
Emacs's outline modes.
@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
-W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
+Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
changing the encoding of Polish characters.
@item
Lisp.
@item
-Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
+Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J. D. Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
@item
prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
@item
-Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He made many
+Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3. He made many
improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
@file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
and improved support for themes and packages.
@item
Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
-(@file{notifications.el}); and @file{color.el}, a library for general
-color manipulation. He also made various contributions to Gnus.
+(@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
+and @file{color.el}, a library for general color manipulation.
+He also made various contributions to Gnus.
@item
Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
@item
-Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
+Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
@item
Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
-(q.v.@:). He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
+(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
+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.
+Piotr Zieliński, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
@item
@item
Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
-folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
-for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
+folders have mail waiting in them.
@item
-Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
+Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
@item
Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
@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
-Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
+Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
@item
@item
Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
-as well as helping to maintain 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
Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
@item
-K.@: Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
+K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
@file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
@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
-Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
+Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
+Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
+Lüdecke, 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}).
for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
@item
-Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
+Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
@item
Emacs.
@item
-Karel Klí@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
+Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
@item
on-the-fly syntax checking.
@item
-David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
+David M. Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
@item
@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
+R. Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
@code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
program.
@item
-David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
+David Kågedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
@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
@item
Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
-for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
+for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.); and rewrote
@file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
@item
creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
@item
-Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
+Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
@item
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
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
+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
Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
@item
-Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
+Christopher J. Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
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
used by the @code{calendar} package.
@item
Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
+@item
+Tomohiro Matsuyama wrote the native Elisp profiler.
+
@item
Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
blackbox game.
Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
-@file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
-used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a
-terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an
-essential utility.
+and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
+used in mail messages and news articles.
@item
-Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
+Gerd Möllmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
@item
-Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. 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},
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).
+cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
+functions at runtime), and added generalized variables to core Emacs
+Lisp.
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
@file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
@item
-Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
+Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.), and wrote
@file{robin.el}, another input method.
@item
the status of version-controlled directories.
@item
-Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
+Hrvoje Nikšić wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
history between Emacs sessions.
@item
embedded text-based tables.
@item
-Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
+Pieter E. J. Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
the MIX assembly language.
@item
the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
@item
-William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
+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
(q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
@item
-Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
+Richard L. Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
1460) interface for Emacs.
@item
widgets.
@item
-François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
+François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
support for PO translation files.
@item
structures.
@item
-Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
+Francesco A. Potortì 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
+Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
for editing Fortran code.
@item
bibliography files by keyword.
@item
-Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
+Eric S. Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
@item
-Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the 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
-Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
+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
+F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
Gore.
@item
@item
Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
-terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
+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}.
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
+Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
DSSSL code.
@item
@item
Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
-@file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
-support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
+@file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}).
@item
Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
references in Info files.
@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
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 implementation of the
Solitaire game.
@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.@:).
+wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.).
@item
Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
-@item
-Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
-@file{TODO} list files.
-
@item
Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which 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
Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
@item
-Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
+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;
CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
buffers.
@item
-Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
+Tibor Šimko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
editing text in Slovak language.
@item
time zones.
@item
-Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
+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. He also contributed to Gnus
-(q.v.@:).
+(q.v.).
@item
Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
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
for use under MS-DOS.
@item
-Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
+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
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 Bahá'í 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
Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
-entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
+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.
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Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
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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
+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.
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-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.
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-Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
+Francis J. Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
manual pages without the @code{man} command.
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other Gnus components.
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-Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
+Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
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Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
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-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.
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