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6bf7aab6 1@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
b65d8176 2@c Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
4e6835db 3@c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6bf7aab6 4@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
2679716a 5@c
6bf7aab6 6@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
ba34fe20 7@unnumbered Acknowledgments
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9Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
26145417 11their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
d282b1c2 12written substantial portions.
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14@c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
15@c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
16@c that many users would notice and consider important.
17
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18@itemize @bullet
19@item
20Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well as
21@file{double.el} for typing accented characters not normally available
22from the keyboard, @file{xt-mouse.el} which handles mouse commands
b930de78 23through Xterm, @file{gnus-cus.el} which implements customization
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24commands for Gnus, @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility
25for news articles and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of
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26C programs according to preprocessor conditionals.
27
28@item
76dd3692 29Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing @acronym{ASCII}
b930de78 30art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
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32@item
da4cf7c5 33Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic
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34decompression and recompression for compressed files.
35
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37Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
38point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
39in the buffer.
40
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42Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
43implemented support for X11.
44
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46Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting
47image files, @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode whereby the default
48value is shown in the minibuffer prompt only when appropriate, and
49@file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons.
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51@item
52David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
53moving the mouse in particular patterns.
54
55@item
56Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
57Emacs.
58
59@item
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60Steven L.@: Baur wrote
61@c If earcon.el actually works with Emacs 21, it isn't useful for lack
62@c of sound files. -- fx
63@c @file{earcon.el}, a facility for sound effects
177c0ea7 64@c for email and news messages,
fcf27a65 65@file{footnote.el} which lets you include
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66footnotes in email messages, and @file{gnus-audio.el} which provides
67sound effects for Gnus.
68
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70Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, David Edmondson, Andreas
71Fuchs, Mario Lang, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, and Alex Schroeder
72contributed ERC, an advanced Internet Relay Chat client.
73
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75Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote @file{profile.el}, to time Emacs Lisp functions.
76
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78Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
79
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80@item
81Ray Blaak wrote @file{delphi.el}, a major mode for editing Delphi
82(Object Pascal) source code.
83
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85Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
86build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
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87frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
88terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals.
89
90@item
91Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
92buffer.
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da4cf7c5 95Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
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96that learns landmarks.
97
98@item
99Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
100output.
101
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103Peter Breton implemented:
104
105@itemize @minus
106@item
107@file{dirtrack} which does better tracking of directory changes in shell
108buffers,
109@item
110@file{filecache.el} which records which directories your files are in,
111@item
112@file{locate.el} which interfaces to the @code{locate} command,
113@item
892c6176 114@file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs Lisp emulation of the @code{find} program,
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116@file{net-utils.el}, and
117@item
118the ``generic mode'' feature.
119@end itemize
120
121@item
122Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs.
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124@item
125Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
126Emacs's outline modes.
127
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128@c @item
129@c Vincent Broman wrote @file{ada.el}, a mode for editing Ada code
130@c (since replaced by @file{ada-mode.el}).
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da4cf7c5 133David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
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134tabular data.
135
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137W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
138changing the encoding of Polish characters.
139
140@item
141Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
142outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
143
144@item
145Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
146manipulating object collections.
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148@item
149Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
150Emacs Lisp functions, and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
151Lisp.
152
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154Chris Chase and Carsten Dominik wrote @file{idlwave.el}, an editing mode
155for IDL and WAVE CL.
156
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158Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el} and @file{makeinfo.el}, modes
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159and utilities for working with Texinfo files; and @file{page-ext.el},
160commands for extended page handling.
161
162@item
163Andrew Choi wrote the Macintosh support code, and contributed
164@file{mac-win.el}, support for the Mac window system.
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166@item
167James Clark wrote @file{sgml-mode.el}, a mode for editing SGML
168documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures.
169
170@item
171Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
172
173@item
174Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
175use it, Snake and Tetris.
176
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178Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
179package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
180
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182Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
183
184@item
185Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
186for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
187
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189Mathias Dahl wrote @file{tumme.el}, a package for viewing image files
190as ``thumbnails.''
191
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193Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
194new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
195
196@item
197Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
198@file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
199
200@item
201Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
202text replace the current selection.
203
204@item
177c0ea7 205Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el},
6bf7aab6 206
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208Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
209
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211Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up
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212labels and cross-references in La@TeX{} documents, and @file{org.el},
213a mode for maintaining notes, todo lists, and project planning.
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215@item
216Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
217transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
218
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220Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
221pong game.
222
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224Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
225
226@item
f330a8da 227John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode.
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229@item
230Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}).
231
232@item
233Stephen Eglen implemented @file{mspools.el}, for use with Procmail,
234which tells you which mail folders have mail waiting in them, and
235@file{iswitchb.el}, a feature for incremental reading and completion of
236buffer names.
237
238@item
6bf7aab6 239Torbj@"orn
b930de78 240Einarsson contributed the Fortran 90 mode (@file{f90.el}).
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242@item
243Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
244
245@item
246Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
247code.
248
249@item
250Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
251function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
252
253@item
254Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
255Language source code.
256
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258Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
259Morse code.
260
261@item
262Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
263is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
264@file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
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266@item
267Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
268
269@item
270Karl Fogel wrote:
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272@itemize @minus
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274@file{bookmark.el}, for creating named placeholders, saving them and
275jumping to them later,
276@item
277@file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing mail messages, and
278@item
279@file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's location in files between
280editing sessions.
281@end itemize
282
283@item
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284Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
285editors, and @file{scroll-lock.el} (now @file{scroll-all.el}) a mode
286for scrolling several buffers together.
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288@item
b930de78 289Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
6bf7aab6 290@file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
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291typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
292the doc string for the Lisp function near point. With Roland McGrath,
293he wrote @file{rsz-mini.el}, a minor mode to automatically resize the
294minibuffer to fit the text it contains.
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296@item
297Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
298
299@item
300Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
301@file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
302flow control.
303
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305Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
306@file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
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309Juan Le@'{o}n Lahoz Garc@'{i}a wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
310performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
311
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313Howard Gayle wrote:
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315@itemize @minus
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316@item
317the C and lisp code for display tables and case tables,
318@item
b930de78 319@file{rot13.el}, a command to display the plain-text form of a buffer
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320encoded with the Caesar cipher,
321@item
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322@file{case-table.el}, code to extend the character set and support case
323tables,
324@item
325much of the support for the ISO-8859 European character sets (which
6bf7aab6 326includes @file{iso-ascii.el}, @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
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327@file{latin-1.el}, @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el},
328@file{swedish.el}), and
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330@file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LED's on
331VT100-compatible terminals.
332@end itemize
333
334@item
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335Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
336contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
337last-change time stamps in files.
338
339@item
340Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
341Gnus.
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343@item
344David Gillespie wrote:
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346@itemize @minus
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348The Common Lisp compatibility packages,
349@item
350@code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool,
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352@file{complete.el}, a partial completion mechanism, and
353@item
354@file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing keyboard macros.
355@end itemize
356
357@item
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358Bob Glickstein contributed the @file{sregex.el} feature, a facility for
359writing regexps using a Lisp-like syntax.
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361@item
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362Boris Goldowsky wrote:
363
364@itemize @minus
365@item
366@file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse cursor out of the way of
367the text cursor,
368@item
369@file{shadowfile.el}, a package for keeping identical copies of files in
370more than one place,
371@item
372@file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
373formats,
374@item
375@file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in files, and
376@item
377@file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces.
378@end itemize
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380@item
381Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
382taking the file name from the buffer.
383
384@item
b930de78 385Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
6bf7aab6 386
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388Kai Gro@ss{}johann and Michael Albinus wrote the Tramp package, which
389provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and other
390network protocols.
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393Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
76dd3692 394the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
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395characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition, and @file{latin-2.el}, code
396which sets up case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-2
397character set.
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399@item
400Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
401related to the currently visited file.
402
403@item
404Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
405
406@item
407Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
b930de78 408character sets, and wrote @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching
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409non-@acronym{ASCII} text. Together with Naoto Takahashi, he wrote
410@file{quail.el}, a simple input facility for typing non-@acronym{ASCII} text from
411an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard. Ken'ichi also wrote @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font
412support for printing non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer.
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414@item
415Chris Hanson wrote @file{netuname.el}, a package to use HP-UX's Remote
416File Access facility from Emacs.
417
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419Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
420
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422K. Shane Hartman wrote:
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424@itemize @minus
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425@item
426@file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el}, packages for browsing
427command history lists,
428@item
429@file{electric.el} and @file{helper.el}, providing an alternative
430command loop and appropriate help facilities,
431@item
432@file{emacsbug.el}, a package for reporting Emacs bugs,
433@item
76dd3692 434@file{picture.el}, a mode for editing @acronym{ASCII} pictures, and
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436@file{view.el}, a package for perusing files and buffers without editing
437them.
438@end itemize
439
440@item
441John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
442which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
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444@item
da4cf7c5 445Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
b930de78 446format of Unicode.
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448@item
449Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}).
450
451@item
452Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
453@code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
454@code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
455
456@item
fcf27a65 457Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
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459@item
460Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
461expansion package.
462
463@item
f330a8da 464Kurt Hornik co-wrote Octave mode.
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466@item
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467Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
468template instantiations.
469
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471Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
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473Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
474browser to display a URL.
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476@item
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477Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
478wrote many of its parts.
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480@item
b930de78 481Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
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471d1274 483@item
da4cf7c5 484Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
471d1274 485
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487Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
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488diary entries to and from the iCalendar format, and
489@file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker.
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492Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game,
493and @file{mldrag.el}, a package which allows the user to resize windows
494by dragging mode lines and vertical window separators with the mouse.
495
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497Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
498load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
499
500@item
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501Simon Josefsson wrote:
502
503@itemize @minus
504@item
505@file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain Name System master files,
506@item
507@file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
508in messages,
509@item
510@file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe,
511@item
512@file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers,
513@item
514@file{nnimap}, the IMAP back-end for Gnus, and
515@item
516@file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility.
517@end itemize
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d155accf 520Arne J@o{}rgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
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521automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
522
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524Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
525mail with SMTP.
526
527@item
528David Kaufman wrote @file{yow.c}, an essential utility program for the
529hopelessly pinheaded.
530
531@item
532Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
533bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
534version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
535those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
536
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538Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
539languages.
540
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542Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
543buffers.
544
545@item
546Michael Kifer wrote @file{ediff.el}, an interactive interface to the
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547@command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs, and
548Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
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550@item
551Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
552@file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
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553editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
554@file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
555parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
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556@c We're not using his backquote.el any more.
557
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559Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a major mode for editing
560PostScript files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from
561within Emacs.
562
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564Pavel Kobiakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
565on-the-fly syntax checking.
566
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da4cf7c5 568Larry K.@: Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail
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570
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572David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
573interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
574
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107bb0f4 576Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
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577inline images.
578
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580Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
581menu support.
582
583@item
584Sebastian Kremer wrote Emacs 19's @code{dired-mode}, with contributions
da4cf7c5 585by Lawrence R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation
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586of the @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a
587standard program.
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589@item
590Geoff Kuenning wrote Emacs 19's @file{ispell.el}, based on work by Ken
591Stevens and others.
592
593@item
594David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
595easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
596
597@item
598Daniel LaLiberte wrote:
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600@itemize @minus
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602@file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp,
603@item
604@file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug} debug code
605written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support,
606@item
607@file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp objects,
608@item
609@file{eval-reg.el}, a re-implementation of @code{eval-region} in Emacs
610Lisp, and
611@item
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614
615@item
da4cf7c5 616James R.@: Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system.
6bf7aab6 617
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621@itemize @minus
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623@code{ps-print}, a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to
624PostScript printers,
625@item
626@file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns,
627@item
628@file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
629chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer.
630@end itemize
631
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633Frederic Lepied contributed @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
634mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
635
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637Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
638Emacs Lisp programs.
639
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641Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
642for buffer selection, and rewrote @file{dabbrev.el}.
643
644@item
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646reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
647@file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
648constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
649that show the same buffer.
650
651@item
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653files.
654
655@item
656Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
657Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
658including those in @file{code-pages.el} and the various UTF-7 and
659UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote:
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661@itemize @minus
662@item
663@code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
664prefix arguments, and @code{autoarg-kp-mode} which redefines the keypad
665numeric keys to digit arguments,
666@item
667@file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing Autoconf @file{configure.in}
668files,
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671@item
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673copyright notices, from file headers,
674@item
675@file{hl-line.el}, a package that provides a minor mode for highlighting
676the line in the current window on which point is,
677@item
678@file{latin-8.el} and @file{latin-9.el}, code which sets up
679case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-8 and Latin-9
680character sets,
681@item
f8635375 682@file{latin1-disp.el}, a package that lets you display ISO 8859
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684tables,
685@item
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687@item
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689typical word processors,
690@item
691@file{smiley-ems.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces, and
692@item
693@file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar.
694@end itemize
695
696@item
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698
699@itemize @minus
700@item
701@file{checkdoc.el}, for checking doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs,
702@item
703@file{dframe.el}, providing dedicatd frame support modes, and
704@item
705@file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to place images over text.
706@end itemize
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709Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode.
710
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712Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
713simple substitution ciphers.
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da4cf7c5 716Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
6bf7aab6 717appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
da4cf7c5 718generated by Edward M.@: Reingold's @code{calendar} package.
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720@item
721Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
722formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
723completion feedback in the minibuffer.
724
725@item
726Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
727
728@item
729Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
730hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
731
732@item
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734expression from a list of strings. He also extended @file{comint.el},
735originally written by Olin Shivers.
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740bibliography files.
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743Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
744mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
745
746@item
747Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
748blackbox game.
749
750@item
751Roland McGrath wrote:
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753@itemize @minus
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755@file{compile.el}, a package for running compilations in a buffer, and
756then visiting the locations reported in error messages,
757@item
758@file{etags.el}, a package for jumping to function definitions and
759searching or replacing in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file,
760@item
761@file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output from the
762@code{find} program, with Sebastian Kremer,
763@item
764@file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker,
765@item
766@file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
767files, and
768@item
769@file{upd-copyr.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of copyright
770notices in source code.
771@end itemize
772
773@item
774David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
775major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
776modes.
777
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779Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
780command with its arguments.
781
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783Wayne Mesard wrote @file{hscroll.el} which does horizontal scrolling
784automatically.
785
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787Brad Miller wrote @file{gnus-gl.el}, a Gnus interface for GroupLens.
788
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790Richard Mlynarik wrote:
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792@itemize @minus
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794@file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting Common Lisp code,
795@item
796@file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for buffer listings,
797@item
798@file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens,
799@item
800@file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
801used in mail messages and news articles,
802@item
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805@file{yow.el}, an essential utility (try @kbd{M-x yow}).
806@end itemize
807
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810development until the release of 21.1. He wrote:
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812@itemize @minus
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814the new display engine for Emacs 21,
815@item
816the asynchronous timers facility (@file{atimer.c}),
817@item
818the @code{ebrowse} C@t{++} browser,
819@item
820@file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode,
821@item
822@file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips, and
823@item
824@file{authors.el} package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} files.
825@end itemize
826
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829and re-wrote much of the Emacs server to use the built-in networking
830primitives. He also wrote:
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832@itemize @minus
833@item
834@code{PCL-CVS}, a directory-level front end to the CVS version control
835system,
836@item
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838text,
839@item
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841conflicts, and
842@item
843@file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context diffs.
844@end itemize
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848elsewhere.
849
850@item
851Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
852with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
853URLs.
854
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857@file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables,
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859case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-4 and Latin-5
1e487ff8 860character sets, @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email
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862
863@item
864Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{makefile.el} (now
865@file{make-mode.el}), a mode for editing makefiles.
866
867@item
868Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
869mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
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873text, and @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's
874@code{xwsh} and @code{winterm} terminal emulators.
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876@item
877Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
878
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880Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
881history between Emacs sessions.
882
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884Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
885dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
886
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889support.
890
891@item
892Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
893splitting mechanism.
894
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896Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
897embedded text-based tables.
898
899@item
900Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
901the MIX assembly language.
902
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904David Pearson contributed @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of
905inserting a URL into the current buffer based on text at point;
906@file{5x5.el}, a game to fill all squares on the field.
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908@item
909Jeff Peck wrote:
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911@itemize @minus
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913@file{emacstool.c}, support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun Windows,
914@item
10886485 915@file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys,
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177c0ea7 917@file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and
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920Sun Windows.
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922
923@item
924Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
925the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
926
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928William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el}, a MIME media types
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930mouse wheels, and the URL package.
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932@item
933Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
934
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936Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
937the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
938
939@item
940Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:
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942@itemize @minus
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945@item
b930de78 946@file{copyright.el}, a package for updating copyright notices in files,
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950@file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing shell scripts,
951@item
952@file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for writing
953statement skeletons, and
954@item
955@file{two-column.el}, a minor mode for simultaneous two-column editing.
956@end itemize
957
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959and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el}, support for
960Wyse 50 terminals.
961
962@item
963Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
9641460) interface for Emacs.
965
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967Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
968widgets.
969
970@item
971Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
972Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
973
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976
977@itemize @minus
978@item
979@file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of recently visited
980files in the Emacs menu bar,
981@item
431e8396 982@file{ruler-mode.el}, a minor mode for displaying a ruler in the
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984@item
985@file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data structures.
986@end itemize
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da4cf7c5 989Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
6bf7aab6 990runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
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da4cf7c5 994Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode for
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996@c We're not distributing his tex-mode.el anymore; we're using Ed Reingold's.
997
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999Mukesh Prasad contributed @file{vmsproc.el}, a facility for running
1000asynchronous subprocesses on VMS.
1001
1002@item
1003Marko Rahamaa wrote @file{latin-3.el}, code which sets up
5fe3b9bc 1004case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-3 character set.
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1007Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
1008bibliography files by keyword.
1009
1010@item
da4cf7c5 1011Eric S.@: Raymond wrote:
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1015@file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS source code version
1016control systems, with Paul Eggert,
1017@item
1018@file{gud.el}, a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB
1019and SDB in Emacs,
1020@item
1021@file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code,
1022@item
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1024@item
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1026@file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el},
1027@item
1028@file{finder.el}, a package for finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword
1029and topic,
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1032@item
1033@file{loadhist.el}, functions for loading and unloading Emacs features,
1034@item
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1036in Emacs Lisp library files, and
1037@item
1038code to set and make use of the @code{load-history} lisp variable, which
1039records the source file from which each lisp function loaded into Emacs
1040came.
1041@end itemize
1042
1043@item
da4cf7c5 1044Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support (try
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1046Dershowitz, Paul Eggert, Steve Fisk, Michael Kifer, and Lara Rios. Andy
1047Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold has also contributed to
1048@file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as have William
da4cf7c5 1049F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore.
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1052David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
1053system's designated mail client.
1054
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1060Rob Riepel contributed @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files,
1061providing an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT
1062editor, and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for
1063the DEC VT line of terminals.
1064
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1066Nick Roberts wrote @file{gdb-ui.el}, the graphical user interface to
1067GDB.
1068
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1071Emacs 19, along with Joseph M.@: Kelsey, and @file{vms-pmail.el}, support
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1073
1074@item
1075John Robinson wrote @file{bg-mouse.el}, support for the mouse on the BBN
1076Bitgraph terminal.
1077
1078@item
1079Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1080into ``handwriting.''
1081
1082@item
1083William Rosenblatt wrote @file{float.el}, implementing a floating-point
1084numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers.
1085
1086@item
da4cf7c5 1087Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
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1091Ivar Rummelhoff provided @file{winner.el}, which records
1092recent window configurations so you can move back to them.
1093
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1095Jason Rumney has ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and
1096contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1097
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1099Wolfgang Rupprecht contributed Emacs 19's floating-point support
1100(including @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and
1101@file{sup-mouse.el}, support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
1102
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1104Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1105references in Info files.
1106
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1110
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1112Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
1113
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1115Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1116message signatures.
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1119William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1120sessions within Emacs.
1121
1122@item
1123Ralph Schleicher contributed @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1124laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1125looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
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1128Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1129editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1130
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da4cf7c5 1132Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
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1135Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1136against Emacs, and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1137
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1139Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an Emacs Lisp implementation of
1140the Solitaire game.
1141
1142@item
1143Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1144ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces, and @file{sql.el}, a package
1145for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer.
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1148Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1149
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1151Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
1152@file{TODO} list files.
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1155Manuel Serrano contributed the Flyspell package that does spell checking
1156as you type.
1157
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1159Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1160windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1161
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1163Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1164commercial email.
1165
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1167Richard Sharman contributed @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors
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1171Olin Shivers wrote:
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1175@file{comint.el}, a library for modes running interactive command-line-
1176oriented subprocesses,
1177@item
1178@file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes,
1179@item
1180@file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process, and
1181@item
1182@file{shell.el}, for running inferior shells.
1183@end itemize
1184
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1186Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1187
1188@item
1189Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1190mostly-constant data.
1191
1192@item
1193Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1194help for key bindings.
1195
1196@item
1197Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1198
1199@item
1200David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1201Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1202
1203@item
da4cf7c5 1204Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
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1206@item
1207William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1208files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1209to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1210
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1212Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1213package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1214
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1216Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1217selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1218
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1220Richard Stallman invented Emacs, and then wrote:
1221
1222@itemize @minus
1223@item
28665d46 1224@file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus,
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1226@file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code,
1227@item
1228@file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1229color, and
1230@item
1231most of the rest of Emacs code.
1232@end itemize
1233
1234@item
1235Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1236maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1237@file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1238
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1240Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1241browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1242
1243@item
1244Peter Stephenson contributed @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a
1245``virtual cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for
1246copying text.
1247
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1249Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
1250that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
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1252@item
1253Jonathan Stigelman wrote @file{hilit19.el}, a package providing
1254automatic highlighting in source code buffers, mail readers, and other
1255contexts.
1256
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1258Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1259process support, and networking support. He also wrote:
1260
1261@itemize @minus
1262@item
1263@file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data.
1264@item
1265@file{cua.el}, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1266bindings.
1267@item
1268@file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files quickly.
1269@item
1270@file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1271@end itemize
1272
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1274Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1e487ff8 1275C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
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1278Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1279really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1280
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1282Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1283buffers.
1284
1285@item
8fc77801 1286Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
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1288
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1290Naoto Takahashi wrote @file{utf-8.el}, support for encoding and
1291decoding UTF-8 data.
1292
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1294Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1295the keyboard.
1296
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431e8396 1298Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
99cf5b74 1299image files as ``thumbnails.''
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1301@item
1302Jens T.@: Berger Thielemann wrote @file{word-help.el}, which is
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1304
1305@item
1306Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1307which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1308words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1309support.
1310
1311@item
1312Jim Thompson wrote @file{ps-print.el}, which converts
1313Emacs text to Postscript.
1314
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1316Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a major mode for
28665d46 1317editing Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
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1318subprocess.
1319
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1321Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
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1323Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
107bb0f4 1324Security protocol, and the PGG package adding GnuPG and PGP support.
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1327Masanobu Umeda wrote:
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1329@itemize @minus
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b930de78 1331GNUS, a feature-full reader for Usenet news,
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1333@file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code,
1334@item
1335@file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders,
1336@item
1337@file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program,
1338@item
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1339@file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus,
1340@item
1341@file{gnus-mh.el}, an mh-e interface for Gnus,
1342@item
1343@file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface for Gnus,
1344@item
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1346some Emacs configurations which lack it, and
1347@item
1348@file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones.
1349@end itemize
1350
1351@item
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1352Rajesh Vaidheeswarran wrote @file{whitespace.el}, a package that
1353detects and cleans up excess whitespace in a file.
1354
1355@item
1356Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1357
1358@item
1359Didier Verna contributed @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1360operations on rectangle regions of text.
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1362@item
1363Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1364
1365@item
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1366Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1367@file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1368of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
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1372mode for filling in forms.
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1375Colin Walters wrote @file{ibuffer.el}, a Dired-like major mode for
1376operating on buffers.
1377
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1379Barry Warsaw wrote:
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1381@itemize @minus
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1383@file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for working with association
1384lists,
1385@item
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1386@file{cc-mode.el}, a major mode for editing C, C@t{++}, and Java code,
1387based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen, and Richard
1388Stallman,
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1390@file{elp.el}, a new profiler for Emacs Lisp programs.
1391@item
1392@file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual pages,
1393@item
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1394@file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
1395programs,
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1397@file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for lisp
b930de78 1398packages, and
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1400@file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting sections of mail messages
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1403
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1405Morten Welinder introduced face support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs,
1406and also wrote:
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1410@file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1411sessions,
1412@item
d282b1c2 1413@file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a given time or
b930de78 1414frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level support code,
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1416@file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support,
1417@item
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1418@file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1419port of Emacs,
1420@item
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1421@file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed archives,
1422@item
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1424and motion commands, and
1425@item
1426@file{dos-fns.el}, functions for use under MS-DOS.
1427@end itemize
1428
1429He also helped port Emacs to MS-DOS.
1430
1431@item
1432Joseph Brian Wells wrote:
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1434@itemize @minus
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1436@file{apropos.el}, a command to find commands, functions, and variables
1437whose names contain matches for a regular expression,
1438@item
1439@file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1440resuming a suspended Emacs job, and
1441@item
1442@file{mail-extr.el}, a package for extracting names and addresses from
1443mail headers, with contributions from Jamie Zawinski.
1444@end itemize
1445
1446@item
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1447Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1448mode for editing VHDL source code.
1449
1450@item
1451John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1452according to regular-expression based rules; @file{timeclock.el}, a
1453package for keeping track of time spent on projects;
1454@file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility; and
1455@code{eshell}, a command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp.
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1457@item
1458Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from
1459RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format.
1460
1461@item
1462Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
1463selection, and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
1464the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
1465
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1467Bill Wohler wrote the Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
1468
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da4cf7c5 1470Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
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1472
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892c6176 1474Francis J.@: Wright wrote @code{WoMan}, a package for browsing
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1475manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1476
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1478Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder
1479to exit with valuable buffers unsaved.
1480
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1482Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
107bb0f4 1483linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode.
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1485@item
1486Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1487of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code, and the SES spreadsheet
1488package.
1489
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1491Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
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1493Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson contributed @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1494mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote @file{tmm.el},
1495a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode terminal.
1496
1497@item
cd61f595 1498Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text,
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1499@file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code which
1500uses illegible identifier names such as @code{cantReadThisVariable}, and
1501@file{tildify.el}, commands for adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and
1502SGML/HTML files.
1503
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1505Victor Zandy contributed @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like
1506to zone out in front of Emacs.
1507
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1510wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which implements transparent mapping of X
1511colors to tty colors, and (together with Kenichi Handa)
1512@file{codepage.el}, a package for editing text encoded in DOS/Windows
1513code pages.
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1515@item
1516Jamie Zawinski wrote:
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1518@itemize @minus
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1520Emacs 19's optimizing byte compiler, with Hallvard Furuseth,
1521@item
1522much of the support for faces and X selections,
1523@item
1524@file{mailabbrev.el}, a package providing automatic expansion of mail
1525aliases, and
1526@item
1527@file{tar-mode.el}, providing simple viewing and editing commands for
1528tar files.
1529@end itemize
1530
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1532Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 22.
1533
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1535Shenghuo Zhu wrote:
1536
1537@itemize @minus
1538@item
1539@file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing binhex files,
1540@item
1541@file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME messages,
1542@item
1543@file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package,
1544@item
1545@file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data,
1546@item
1547@file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail.
1548@end itemize
1549
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da4cf7c5 1551Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
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1553@item
da4cf7c5 1554Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
6bf7aab6 1555VI text editor.
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1559with visual feedback.
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1562
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1565@file{ChangeLog} files which are summarized in the file @file{AUTHORS}
1566in the distribution.) We thank them for their generosity as well.
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1568This list intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
1569feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
1570please report that as a manual bug.
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1574@end ignore