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6446548e | 1 | @c -*- coding: utf-8 -*- |
6bf7aab6 | 2 | @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
73b0cd50 | 3 | @c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2011 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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8 | |
9 | Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software | |
10 | Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for | |
26145417 | 11 | their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have |
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12 | written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have |
13 | reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs. | |
14 | We thank them for their generosity as well. | |
15 | ||
fa61190c | 16 | This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or |
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17 | feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted, |
18 | please report that as a manual bug. More comprehensive information is | |
19 | available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file | |
20 | @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution. | |
6bf7aab6 | 21 | |
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22 | @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package, |
23 | @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs | |
24 | @c that many users would notice and consider important. | |
236fd60d | 25 | @c Remove things that are no longer distributed. |
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26 | @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in |
27 | @c emacs.texi is used. | |
26145417 | 28 | |
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29 | @itemize @bullet |
30 | @item | |
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31 | Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as |
32 | @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available | |
33 | from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands | |
34 | through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization | |
35 | commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for | |
36 | news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el}, | |
37 | which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor | |
38 | conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el}, | |
39 | @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote | |
40 | @file{gnus-soup.el}. | |
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41 | |
42 | @item | |
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43 | Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing |
44 | @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys. | |
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45 | |
46 | @item | |
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47 | Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el}, |
48 | providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed | |
49 | files. | |
6bf7aab6 | 50 | |
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51 | @item |
52 | Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the | |
53 | D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing | |
54 | Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine | |
6446548e | 55 | interface. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which |
c3a37bd2 | 56 | provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and |
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57 | other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote |
58 | @file{tramp-cache.el}. | |
c3a37bd2 | 59 | |
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60 | @item |
61 | Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the | |
62 | point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down | |
63 | in the buffer. | |
64 | ||
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65 | @item |
66 | Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and | |
67 | implemented support for X11. | |
68 | ||
b930de78 | 69 | @item |
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70 | Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image |
71 | files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer | |
72 | default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of | |
73 | @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer | |
74 | depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons; | |
75 | @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in | |
76 | individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. | |
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77 | |
78 | @item | |
79 | David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by | |
80 | moving the mouse in particular patterns. | |
81 | ||
82 | @item | |
83 | Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for | |
84 | Emacs. | |
85 | ||
86 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 87 | Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include |
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88 | footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and |
89 | @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote | |
90 | @file{gnus-setup.el}. | |
107bb0f4 | 91 | |
6bf7aab6 | 92 | @item |
236fd60d | 93 | Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson, |
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94 | Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence |
95 | Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer, | |
96 | Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay | |
97 | Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the | |
98 | ERC distribution). | |
6bf7aab6 | 99 | |
27f70a64 | 100 | @item |
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101 | Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman, |
102 | Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the | |
103 | NeXTstep port of Emacs. | |
104 | ||
105 | @item | |
106 | Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars. | |
27f70a64 | 107 | |
b930de78 | 108 | @item |
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109 | Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing |
110 | Delphi (Object Pascal) source code. | |
b930de78 | 111 | |
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112 | @item |
113 | Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a | |
114 | mode for editing reStructuredText documents. | |
115 | ||
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116 | @item |
117 | Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and | |
118 | build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the | |
b930de78 | 119 | frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el}, |
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120 | terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote |
121 | @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:). | |
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122 | |
123 | @item | |
124 | Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs | |
125 | buffer. | |
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126 | |
127 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 128 | Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot |
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129 | that learns landmarks. |
130 | ||
131 | @item | |
132 | Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff} | |
133 | output. | |
134 | ||
135 | @item | |
236fd60d | 136 | Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking |
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137 | directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records |
138 | which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which | |
139 | interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs | |
140 | Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and | |
b930de78 | 141 | the ``generic mode'' feature. |
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142 | |
143 | @item | |
236fd60d | 144 | Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and |
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145 | @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as |
146 | co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}. | |
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147 | |
148 | @item | |
149 | Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to | |
150 | Emacs's outline modes. | |
151 | ||
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da4cf7c5 | 153 | David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other |
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154 | tabular data. |
155 | ||
156 | @item | |
6446548e | 157 | Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for |
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158 | changing the encoding of Polish characters. |
159 | ||
160 | @item | |
161 | Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging | |
162 | outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers. | |
163 | ||
164 | @item | |
165 | Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for | |
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166 | manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and |
167 | Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees. | |
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168 | |
169 | @item | |
170 | Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for | |
236fd60d | 171 | Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs |
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172 | Lisp. |
173 | ||
b930de78 | 174 | @item |
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175 | Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode, |
176 | for editing IDL and WAVE CL. | |
b930de78 | 177 | |
6bf7aab6 | 178 | @item |
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179 | Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and |
180 | @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files; | |
181 | and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. | |
b930de78 | 182 | |
9dfa7983 | 183 | @item |
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184 | Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities |
185 | for Korean Hanja. | |
9dfa7983 | 186 | |
b930de78 | 187 | @item |
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188 | Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used |
189 | prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS. | |
190 | ||
191 | @item | |
192 | Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many | |
3892ff9c | 193 | improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai |
6446548e | 194 | Großjohann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor |
3892ff9c | 195 | mode for wrapping long lines. |
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196 | |
197 | @item | |
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198 | James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and |
199 | nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to | |
200 | Emacs's dumping procedures. | |
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201 | |
202 | @item | |
203 | Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor. | |
204 | ||
205 | @item | |
206 | Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that | |
207 | use it, Snake and Tetris. | |
208 | ||
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209 | @item |
210 | Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before | |
211 | it is analysed for spam. | |
212 | ||
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213 | @item |
214 | Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a | |
215 | package for easy definition of major and minor modes. | |
216 | ||
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217 | @item |
218 | Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}). | |
219 | ||
220 | @item | |
221 | Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler | |
222 | for compiled Emacs Lisp code. | |
223 | ||
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225 | Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image |
226 | files as ``thumbnails.'' | |
107bb0f4 | 227 | |
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228 | @item |
229 | Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications'' | |
230 | (@file{notifications.el}). | |
231 | ||
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232 | @item |
233 | Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or | |
234 | source tree to HTML. | |
235 | ||
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236 | @item |
237 | Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a | |
238 | new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists. | |
239 | ||
240 | @item | |
241 | Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the | |
242 | @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer. | |
243 | ||
244 | @item | |
245 | Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed | |
246 | text replace the current selection. | |
247 | ||
248 | @item | |
2d3328f2 | 249 | Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el}, |
6bf7aab6 | 250 | |
431e8396 | 251 | @item |
6446548e | 252 | Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop. |
431e8396 | 253 | |
6bf7aab6 | 254 | @item |
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255 | Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and |
256 | cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode | |
257 | (q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes, | |
6446548e | 258 | todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Jan Böcker, Lennart |
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259 | Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Daniel German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip |
260 | Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima, Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte, | |
261 | Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, | |
262 | and Piotr Zielinski also wrote various Org mode components. | |
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263 | |
264 | @item | |
265 | Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining | |
266 | transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses. | |
267 | ||
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268 | @item |
269 | Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical | |
270 | pong game. | |
271 | ||
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272 | @item |
273 | Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4. | |
274 | ||
275 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 276 | John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode. |
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277 | |
278 | @item | |
236fd60d | 279 | Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode. |
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280 | |
281 | @item | |
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282 | Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail |
283 | folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature | |
284 | for incremental reading and completion of buffer names. | |
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285 | |
286 | @item | |
6446548e | 287 | Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files. |
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288 | |
289 | @item | |
290 | Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets. | |
291 | ||
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293 | David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an |
294 | interface to the Mairix indexing tool. | |
c3a37bd2 | 295 | |
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296 | @item |
297 | Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87 | |
298 | code. | |
299 | ||
300 | @item | |
301 | Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a | |
302 | function's source code and preceding comment on the screen. | |
303 | ||
304 | @item | |
305 | Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data | |
306 | Language source code. | |
307 | ||
308 | @item | |
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309 | Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to |
310 | Morse code. | |
311 | ||
312 | @item | |
313 | Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which | |
314 | is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and | |
315 | @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface. | |
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316 | |
317 | @item | |
318 | Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files. | |
319 | ||
320 | @item | |
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321 | Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named |
322 | placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing | |
323 | mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's | |
324 | location in files between editing sessions. | |
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325 | |
326 | @item | |
b930de78 | 327 | Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief |
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328 | editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers |
329 | together. | |
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330 | |
331 | @item | |
b930de78 | 332 | Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin, |
6bf7aab6 | 333 | @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from |
b930de78 | 334 | typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or |
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335 | the doc string for the Lisp function near point. |
336 | ||
337 | @item | |
338 | Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler. | |
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339 | |
340 | @item | |
341 | Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files. | |
342 | ||
343 | @item | |
344 | Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote | |
345 | @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF | |
346 | flow control. | |
347 | ||
348 | @item | |
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349 | Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote |
350 | @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system. | |
6bf7aab6 | 351 | |
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6446548e | 353 | Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for |
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354 | performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers. |
355 | ||
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357 | Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and |
358 | case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the | |
359 | plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher; | |
236fd60d | 360 | @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on |
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361 | VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859 |
362 | European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el}, | |
236fd60d | 363 | @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el}, |
67ffa16f | 364 | @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}). |
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365 | |
366 | @item | |
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367 | Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many |
368 | contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining | |
369 | last-change time stamps in files. | |
370 | ||
371 | @item | |
372 | Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for | |
373 | Gnus. | |
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374 | |
375 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 376 | David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages; |
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377 | @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since |
378 | maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial | |
379 | completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing | |
380 | keyboard macros. | |
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381 | |
382 | @item | |
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383 | Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps |
384 | using a Lisp-like syntax. | |
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385 | |
386 | @item | |
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387 | Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse |
388 | cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a | |
389 | package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place; | |
b930de78 | 390 | @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various |
67ffa16f | 391 | formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in |
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392 | files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and |
393 | @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties. | |
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394 | |
395 | @item | |
396 | Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file, | |
397 | taking the file name from the buffer. | |
398 | ||
399 | @item | |
b930de78 | 400 | Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files. |
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401 | |
402 | @item | |
403 | Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between | |
76dd3692 | 404 | the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII} |
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405 | characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition. |
406 | ||
407 | @item | |
408 | Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus; | |
409 | as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:). | |
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410 | |
411 | @item | |
412 | Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files | |
413 | related to the currently visited file. | |
414 | ||
415 | @item | |
416 | Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation. | |
417 | ||
418 | @item | |
419 | Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international | |
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420 | character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He |
421 | also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that | |
422 | composes characters automatically when they are displayed; | |
423 | @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII} | |
424 | text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing | |
425 | non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto | |
426 | Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing | |
427 | non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard. | |
6bf7aab6 | 428 | |
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429 | @item |
430 | Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages. | |
431 | ||
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433 | K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el}, |
434 | packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and | |
435 | @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and | |
436 | appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for | |
437 | reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing | |
438 | @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing | |
439 | files and buffers without editing them. | |
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440 | |
441 | @item | |
442 | John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el}, | |
443 | which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features. | |
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444 | |
445 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 446 | Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation |
b930de78 | 447 | format of Unicode. |
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448 | |
449 | @item | |
3892ff9c | 450 | Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode. |
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451 | |
452 | @item | |
453 | Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the | |
454 | @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the | |
455 | @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits. | |
456 | ||
457 | @item | |
fcf27a65 | 458 | Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
459 | |
460 | @item | |
461 | Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and | |
462 | expansion package. | |
463 | ||
6b2efdc2 | 464 | @item |
9dfa7983 GM |
465 | Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and |
466 | DVI documents. | |
6b2efdc2 | 467 | |
6bf7aab6 | 468 | @item |
b930de78 EZ |
469 | Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++} |
470 | template instantiations. | |
471 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
472 | @item |
473 | Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter. | |
67ffa16f | 474 | |
b930de78 EZ |
475 | @item |
476 | Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW | |
477 | browser to display a URL. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
478 | |
479 | @item | |
b930de78 | 480 | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and |
236fd60d GM |
481 | wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of |
482 | Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups; | |
483 | @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings; | |
484 | @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and | |
485 | @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of | |
3892ff9c | 486 | Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer, |
6446548e GM |
487 | Kevin Greiner, Kai Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha |
488 | Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz, | |
3892ff9c GM |
489 | Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka, |
490 | Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}). | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
491 | |
492 | @item | |
b930de78 | 493 | Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support. |
6bf7aab6 | 494 | |
471d1274 | 495 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 496 | Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support. |
471d1274 | 497 | |
9dfa7983 GM |
498 | @item |
499 | Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find} | |
500 | command-line. | |
501 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
502 | @item |
503 | Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs | |
9dfa7983 GM |
504 | diary entries to and from the iCalendar format; |
505 | @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and | |
506 | @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game. | |
431e8396 | 507 | |
6bf7aab6 | 508 | @item |
236fd60d | 509 | Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game. |
6bf7aab6 | 510 | |
b930de78 EZ |
511 | @item |
512 | Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential | |
513 | load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another. | |
514 | ||
515 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 516 | Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain |
236fd60d GM |
517 | Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface; |
518 | @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text | |
519 | in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe; | |
520 | @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers; | |
521 | @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP | |
522 | back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library; | |
523 | @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus | |
524 | S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el} | |
525 | for the Transport Layer Security protocol. | |
b930de78 | 526 | |
107bb0f4 | 527 | @item |
6446548e | 528 | Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to |
107bb0f4 KS |
529 | automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files. |
530 | ||
236fd60d GM |
531 | @item |
532 | Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version | |
533 | control system. | |
534 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
535 | @item |
536 | Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out | |
537 | mail with SMTP. | |
538 | ||
539 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
540 | Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version |
541 | control system. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
542 | |
543 | @item | |
544 | Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining | |
545 | bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff} | |
546 | version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert | |
547 | those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package. | |
548 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
549 | @item |
550 | Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian | |
3e8e9265 | 551 | languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization. |
431e8396 | 552 | |
236fd60d GM |
553 | @item |
554 | Taro Kawagishi implented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and | |
555 | wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager | |
556 | authentication support. | |
557 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
558 | @item |
559 | Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs | |
560 | buffers. | |
561 | ||
562 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
563 | Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the |
564 | @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and | |
b930de78 | 565 | Viper, the newest emulation for VI. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
566 | |
567 | @item | |
568 | Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and | |
569 | @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users | |
b930de78 EZ |
570 | editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of |
571 | @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding | |
572 | parts of the file's name to the buffer name. | |
6bf7aab6 | 573 | |
b930de78 | 574 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
575 | Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript |
576 | files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within | |
577 | Emacs. | |
b930de78 | 578 | |
b7d65a5f | 579 | @item |
6446548e | 580 | Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the |
b7d65a5f GM |
581 | Security-Enchanced Linux context of files on backup and copy. |
582 | ||
431e8396 | 583 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
584 | Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal |
585 | strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication); | |
586 | and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm. | |
587 | ||
588 | @item | |
589 | Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing | |
431e8396 EZ |
590 | on-the-fly syntax checking. |
591 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
592 | @item |
593 | David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for | |
594 | interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text. | |
595 | ||
431e8396 | 596 | @item |
107bb0f4 | 597 | Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying |
431e8396 EZ |
598 | inline images. |
599 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
600 | @item |
601 | Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up | |
602 | menu support. | |
603 | ||
604 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
605 | Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence |
606 | R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the | |
607 | @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard | |
608 | program. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
609 | |
610 | @item | |
6d98672d | 611 | Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
612 | |
613 | @item | |
614 | David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for | |
615 | easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions. | |
616 | ||
617 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
618 | Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for |
619 | Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug} | |
620 | debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; | |
621 | @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp | |
236fd60d GM |
622 | objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. |
623 | He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:). | |
6bf7aab6 | 624 | |
5cca97ad GM |
625 | @item |
626 | Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for | |
627 | editing JavaScript. | |
628 | ||
b930de78 | 629 | @item |
67ffa16f | 630 | Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as |
3892ff9c GM |
631 | @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa), |
632 | a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers; | |
633 | @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns; | |
634 | @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic | |
635 | chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and | |
636 | @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess | |
637 | whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el}, | |
638 | used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran. | |
b930de78 | 639 | |
6bf7aab6 | 640 | @item |
2d3328f2 | 641 | Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev |
6bf7aab6 DL |
642 | mechanism for inserting programming constructs. |
643 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
644 | @item |
645 | Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for | |
646 | Emacs Lisp programs. | |
647 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
648 | @item |
649 | Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus | |
236fd60d GM |
650 | for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote |
651 | @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
652 | |
653 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
654 | Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically |
655 | reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk; | |
656 | @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++} | |
657 | constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows | |
658 | that show the same buffer. | |
659 | ||
660 | @item | |
431e8396 EZ |
661 | Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of |
662 | files. | |
663 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
664 | @item |
665 | Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer | |
e99652b0 GM |
666 | searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and |
667 | directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that | |
668 | creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords. | |
9dfa7983 | 669 | |
67ffa16f | 670 | @item |
6446548e GM |
671 | Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows Emacs to |
672 | run on graphical and text-only terminals simultaneously. | |
67ffa16f | 673 | |
236fd60d GM |
674 | @item |
675 | Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version | |
676 | control annotation. | |
677 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
678 | @item |
679 | Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and | |
680 | Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems, | |
236fd60d GM |
681 | including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote |
682 | @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply | |
683 | prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad | |
684 | numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing | |
685 | Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files; | |
67ffa16f CY |
686 | @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file |
687 | headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in | |
236fd60d GM |
688 | the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode |
689 | for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a | |
67ffa16f | 690 | package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals |
236fd60d GM |
691 | by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode |
692 | for the Python programming language; @file{refill.el}, a mode for | |
67ffa16f | 693 | automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors; |
236fd60d | 694 | @file{smiley.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces; |
67ffa16f | 695 | @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing mode-dependent symbol |
236fd60d GM |
696 | completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code execution; and |
697 | @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar. | |
698 | With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar | |
699 | version control system. | |
67ffa16f CY |
700 | |
701 | @item | |
55381962 GM |
702 | Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking |
703 | doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing | |
704 | dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to | |
705 | place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc; and | |
706 | the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects) | |
707 | package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs | |
708 | Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by | |
709 | Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona. | |
b930de78 | 710 | |
1e487ff8 | 711 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
712 | Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and |
713 | maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards. | |
1e487ff8 | 714 | |
b930de78 EZ |
715 | @item |
716 | Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking | |
717 | simple substitution ciphers. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
718 | |
719 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 720 | Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their |
6bf7aab6 | 721 | appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files |
236fd60d | 722 | used by the @code{calendar} package. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
723 | |
724 | @item | |
725 | Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and | |
726 | formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental | |
727 | completion feedback in the minibuffer. | |
728 | ||
729 | @item | |
730 | Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code. | |
731 | ||
732 | @item | |
733 | Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for | |
734 | hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses. | |
735 | ||
736 | @item | |
86f7c203 | 737 | Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular |
236fd60d | 738 | expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock |
3892ff9c GM |
739 | font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and |
740 | @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers. | |
b930de78 | 741 | |
6bf7aab6 | 742 | @item |
3892ff9c GM |
743 | Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, |
744 | and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{} | |
6bf7aab6 | 745 | bibliography files. |
177c0ea7 | 746 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
747 | @item |
748 | Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic | |
749 | mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files. | |
750 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
751 | @item |
752 | Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode. | |
753 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
754 | @item |
755 | Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional | |
756 | blackbox game. | |
757 | ||
758 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
759 | Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel |
760 | Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then | |
761 | visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a | |
762 | package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing | |
763 | in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el}, | |
764 | for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program, | |
765 | with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep} | |
766 | command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker; | |
6bf7aab6 | 767 | @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload |
236fd60d GM |
768 | files. |
769 | ||
770 | @item | |
771 | Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
772 | |
773 | @item | |
774 | David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new | |
775 | major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major | |
776 | modes. | |
777 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
778 | @item |
779 | Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding | |
780 | command with its arguments. | |
781 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 782 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
783 | Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting |
784 | Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for | |
785 | buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens; | |
6bf7aab6 | 786 | @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format, |
67ffa16f CY |
787 | used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a |
788 | terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an | |
789 | essential utility. | |
6bf7aab6 | 790 | |
d282b1c2 | 791 | @item |
431e8396 | 792 | Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21 |
67ffa16f CY |
793 | development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display |
794 | engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers | |
795 | facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser; | |
796 | @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode; | |
236fd60d GM |
797 | @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips; |
798 | @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file; | |
799 | and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor. | |
b930de78 | 800 | |
b930de78 | 801 | @item |
67ffa16f | 802 | Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He added |
236fd60d GM |
803 | support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server |
804 | to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and | |
805 | minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS}, | |
806 | a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system; | |
807 | @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible | |
808 | text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3} | |
809 | conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context | |
cdfbcbba GM |
810 | diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets; |
811 | @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; and @file{mpc.el}, a | |
812 | client for the ``Music Player Daemon''. | |
d282b1c2 | 813 | |
6bf7aab6 | 814 | @item |
b930de78 EZ |
815 | Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and |
816 | elsewhere. | |
817 | ||
236fd60d GM |
818 | @item |
819 | Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote | |
820 | @file{robin.el}, another input method. | |
821 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
822 | @item |
823 | Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings | |
824 | with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:} | |
825 | URLs. | |
826 | ||
827 | @item | |
fcf27a65 | 828 | Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote |
236fd60d GM |
829 | @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables; |
830 | @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and | |
831 | @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings. | |
b930de78 EZ |
832 | |
833 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
834 | Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el}, |
835 | a mode for editing makefiles. | |
b930de78 EZ |
836 | |
837 | @item | |
838 | Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor | |
839 | mode for selectively displaying blocks of text. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
840 | |
841 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 842 | Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also |
9dfa7983 | 843 | wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text; |
67ffa16f | 844 | @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh} |
9dfa7983 GM |
845 | and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying |
846 | the status of version-controlled directories. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
847 | |
848 | @item | |
849 | Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation. | |
850 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
851 | @item |
852 | Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer | |
853 | history between Emacs sessions. | |
854 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
855 | @item |
856 | Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit | |
857 | dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer. | |
858 | ||
859 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
860 | Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP |
861 | support. | |
862 | ||
c3a37bd2 CY |
863 | @item |
864 | Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and | |
865 | generating JSON files. | |
866 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
867 | @item |
868 | Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23. | |
869 | ||
9acfe703 GM |
870 | @item |
871 | Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression | |
872 | testing. | |
873 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
874 | @item |
875 | Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail | |
876 | splitting mechanism. | |
877 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
878 | @item |
879 | Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing | |
880 | embedded text-based tables. | |
881 | ||
882 | @item | |
883 | Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for | |
884 | the MIX assembly language. | |
885 | ||
b930de78 | 886 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
887 | David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a |
888 | URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a | |
889 | game to fill all squares on the field. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
890 | |
891 | @item | |
236fd60d | 892 | Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
893 | |
894 | @item | |
895 | Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of | |
896 | the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle. | |
897 | ||
b930de78 | 898 | @item |
3892ff9c GM |
899 | William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne |
900 | Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility; | |
901 | @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with | |
902 | Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL | |
903 | package. | |
b930de78 EZ |
904 | |
905 | @item | |
906 | Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus. | |
907 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
908 | @item |
909 | Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find | |
910 | the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable. | |
911 | ||
912 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
913 | Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing |
914 | configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating | |
915 | copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for | |
916 | executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing | |
917 | shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for | |
918 | writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode | |
919 | for simultaneous two-column editing. | |
6bf7aab6 | 920 | |
236fd60d GM |
921 | Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells), |
922 | for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular | |
923 | expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el}, | |
3892ff9c GM |
924 | support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el} |
925 | (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}. | |
b930de78 EZ |
926 | |
927 | @item | |
928 | Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC | |
929 | 1460) interface for Emacs. | |
930 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
931 | @item |
932 | Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit | |
933 | widgets. | |
934 | ||
3892ff9c | 935 | @item |
6446548e | 936 | François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el}, |
3892ff9c GM |
937 | support for PO translation files. |
938 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
939 | @item |
940 | Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the | |
941 | Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation. | |
942 | ||
b930de78 | 943 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
944 | David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of |
945 | recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a | |
946 | minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and | |
947 | @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data | |
948 | structures. | |
b930de78 | 949 | |
6bf7aab6 | 950 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 951 | Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which |
6bf7aab6 | 952 | runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results. |
b930de78 | 953 | He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
954 | |
955 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
956 | Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode |
957 | for editing Fortran code. | |
b930de78 | 958 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
959 | @item |
960 | Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in | |
961 | bibliography files by keyword. | |
962 | ||
963 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
964 | Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS |
965 | source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el}, | |
966 | a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in | |
967 | Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code; | |
968 | @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards; | |
6bf7aab6 | 969 | @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like |
67ffa16f CY |
970 | @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for |
971 | finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el}, | |
972 | code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el}, | |
973 | functions for loading and unloading Emacs features; | |
974 | @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers | |
975 | used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the | |
976 | @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from | |
977 | which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
978 | |
979 | @item | |
236fd60d | 980 | Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support, |
14731c8f | 981 | with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum |
3892ff9c GM |
982 | Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}), |
983 | Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara | |
984 | Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}). | |
985 | Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed | |
986 | to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William | |
987 | F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob | |
988 | Gore. | |
b930de78 | 989 | |
107bb0f4 KS |
990 | @item |
991 | David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the | |
992 | system's designated mail client. | |
993 | ||
b930de78 | 994 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
995 | Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name |
996 | of the current function in the mode line. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
997 | |
998 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
999 | Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing |
1000 | an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor, | |
1001 | and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC | |
1002 | VT line of terminals. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1003 | |
431e8396 | 1004 | @item |
985bf85b GM |
1005 | Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text |
1006 | terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB. | |
1007 | Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to | |
1008 | @file{gdb-ui.el}. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1009 | |
1010 | @item | |
1011 | Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text | |
1012 | into ``handwriting.'' | |
1013 | ||
1014 | @item | |
236fd60d | 1015 | Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1016 | |
1017 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 1018 | Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and |
b930de78 | 1019 | DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1020 | |
1021 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
1022 | Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window |
1023 | configurations so you can move back to them. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1024 | |
b930de78 | 1025 | @item |
2d3328f2 | 1026 | Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has |
b930de78 EZ |
1027 | contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs. |
1028 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1029 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
1030 | Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including |
1031 | @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el}, | |
1032 | support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1033 | |
431e8396 EZ |
1034 | @item |
1035 | Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking | |
1036 | references in Info files. | |
1037 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1038 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1039 | James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1040 | dynamic word completion. |
1041 | ||
1042 | @item | |
1043 | Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor. | |
1044 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1045 | @item |
1046 | Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in | |
1047 | message signatures. | |
1048 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1049 | @item |
1050 | William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet} | |
1051 | sessions within Emacs. | |
1052 | ||
1053 | @item | |
2d3328f2 | 1054 | Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1055 | laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for |
1056 | looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer. | |
1057 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1058 | @item |
1059 | Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for | |
1060 | editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson. | |
1061 | ||
1062 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 1063 | Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1064 | |
1065 | @item | |
1066 | Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played | |
236fd60d GM |
1067 | against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle. |
1068 | ||
1069 | @item | |
1070 | Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1071 | |
b930de78 | 1072 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1073 | Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the |
1074 | Solitaire game. | |
b930de78 EZ |
1075 | |
1076 | @item | |
1077 | Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating | |
236fd60d GM |
1078 | ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package |
1079 | for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer; | |
1080 | @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a | |
1081 | package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and | |
1082 | @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also | |
1083 | wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:). | |
b930de78 | 1084 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1085 | @item |
1086 | Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects. | |
1087 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1088 | @item |
1089 | Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining | |
1090 | @file{TODO} list files. | |
1091 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1092 | @item |
2d3328f2 | 1093 | Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1094 | as you type. |
1095 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1096 | @item |
1097 | Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting | |
1098 | windows based on their geometrical position on the frame. | |
1099 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1100 | @item |
1101 | Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited | |
1102 | commercial email. | |
1103 | ||
1104 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
1105 | Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show |
1106 | recent editing changes. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1107 | |
1108 | @item | |
67ffa16f | 1109 | Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running |
3892ff9c GM |
1110 | interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for |
1111 | running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall); | |
1112 | @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes; | |
1113 | @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1114 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1115 | @item |
1116 | Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code. | |
1117 | ||
1118 | @item | |
1119 | Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating | |
1120 | mostly-constant data. | |
1121 | ||
1122 | @item | |
1123 | Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive | |
1124 | help for key bindings. | |
1125 | ||
1126 | @item | |
1127 | Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code. | |
1128 | ||
1129 | @item | |
1130 | David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs | |
1131 | Lisp interpreter as a subprocess. | |
1132 | ||
1133 | @item | |
da4cf7c5 | 1134 | Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1135 | |
1136 | @item | |
1137 | William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe | |
1138 | files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files | |
1139 | to an extant Emacs job to be edited. | |
1140 | ||
b930de78 EZ |
1141 | @item |
1142 | Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control | |
1143 | package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends. | |
1144 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1145 | @item |
1146 | Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for | |
1147 | selecting regions to follow many other systems. | |
1148 | ||
b930de78 | 1149 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1150 | Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU |
1151 | Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous | |
1152 | periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has | |
1153 | written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus; | |
236fd60d | 1154 | @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files; |
3892ff9c | 1155 | @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code; |
b930de78 | 1156 | @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in |
3892ff9c | 1157 | color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode. |
b930de78 EZ |
1158 | |
1159 | @item | |
1160 | Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package | |
1161 | maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and | |
1162 | @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight. | |
1163 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1164 | @item |
1165 | Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for | |
1166 | browsing indices made from buffer contents. | |
1167 | ||
1168 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
1169 | Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual |
1170 | cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1171 | |
1172 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1173 | Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains |
1174 | that package since Ispell 3.1 release. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1175 | |
431e8396 EZ |
1176 | @item |
1177 | Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine, | |
67ffa16f CY |
1178 | process support, and networking support. He also wrote |
1179 | @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data; | |
236fd60d | 1180 | CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key |
67ffa16f | 1181 | bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files |
236fd60d GM |
1182 | quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and |
1183 | @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility. | |
431e8396 | 1184 | |
b930de78 EZ |
1185 | @item |
1186 | Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C, | |
1e487ff8 | 1187 | C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code. |
b930de78 | 1188 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1189 | @item |
1190 | Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he | |
1191 | really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. | |
1192 | ||
1193 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1194 | Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs |
1195 | buffers. | |
1196 | ||
1197 | @item | |
6446548e | 1198 | Tibor Šimko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for |
b930de78 EZ |
1199 | editing text in Slovak language. |
1200 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
1201 | @item |
1202 | Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through | |
1203 | the keyboard. | |
1204 | ||
b930de78 | 1205 | @item |
431e8396 | 1206 | Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing |
99cf5b74 | 1207 | image files as ``thumbnails.'' |
b930de78 | 1208 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1209 | @item |
1210 | Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command | |
1211 | which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby | |
1212 | words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping | |
1213 | support. | |
1214 | ||
236fd60d GM |
1215 | @item |
1216 | Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support. | |
1217 | ||
c3a37bd2 CY |
1218 | @item |
1219 | Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line | |
1220 | numbers in the left margin. | |
1221 | ||
b930de78 | 1222 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1223 | Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing |
1224 | Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs | |
b930de78 EZ |
1225 | subprocess. |
1226 | ||
9dfa7983 GM |
1227 | @item |
1228 | Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to | |
1229 | bug reports. | |
1230 | ||
107bb0f4 KS |
1231 | @item |
1232 | Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL. | |
67ffa16f | 1233 | |
b930de78 EZ |
1234 | @item |
1235 | Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer | |
3892ff9c GM |
1236 | Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with |
1237 | Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication | |
1238 | and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG) | |
1239 | package, for GnuPG and PGP support. | |
b930de78 | 1240 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1241 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1242 | Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that |
1243 | was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote | |
9acfe703 GM |
1244 | @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders; |
1245 | @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program; | |
1246 | @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an | |
1247 | mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface | |
1248 | for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with | |
1249 | time zones. | |
b930de78 EZ |
1250 | |
1251 | @item | |
1252 | Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package. | |
1253 | ||
1254 | @item | |
2d3328f2 | 1255 | Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for |
236fd60d GM |
1256 | operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus |
1257 | (q.v.@:). | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1258 | |
1259 | @item | |
1260 | Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code. | |
1261 | ||
1262 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1263 | Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote |
1264 | @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports | |
1265 | of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1266 | |
1267 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
1268 | Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for |
1269 | filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode | |
1270 | providing electric accent keys. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1271 | |
431e8396 | 1272 | @item |
236fd60d | 1273 | Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu. |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1274 | |
1275 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
1276 | Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for |
1277 | working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing | |
1278 | C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, | |
236fd60d | 1279 | Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler |
67ffa16f CY |
1280 | for Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual |
1281 | pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in | |
1282 | lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug | |
1283 | reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for | |
1284 | quoting sections of mail messages and news articles. | |
b930de78 | 1285 | |
236fd60d GM |
1286 | @item |
1287 | Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR | |
1288 | grammar files. | |
1289 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1290 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1291 | Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face |
1292 | support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote | |
6bf7aab6 | 1293 | @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between |
67ffa16f CY |
1294 | sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a |
1295 | given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level | |
1296 | support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support; | |
b930de78 | 1297 | @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS |
67ffa16f CY |
1298 | port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed |
1299 | archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using | |
1300 | the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions | |
1301 | for use under MS-DOS. | |
b930de78 | 1302 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1303 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1304 | Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:); |
1305 | @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after | |
1306 | resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for | |
1307 | extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions | |
1308 | from Jamie Zawinski. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1309 | |
1310 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1311 | Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major |
1312 | mode for editing VHDL source code. | |
1313 | ||
1314 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
1315 | John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text |
1316 | according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast | |
1317 | buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of | |
1318 | time spent on projects; the Baha'i calendar support; | |
c3a37bd2 | 1319 | @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility; |
236fd60d GM |
1320 | @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember; |
1321 | @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified | |
1322 | Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented | |
1323 | entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:). | |
6bf7aab6 | 1324 | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1325 | @item |
1326 | Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse | |
236fd60d | 1327 | selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1328 | the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point. |
1329 | ||
67ffa16f CY |
1330 | @item |
1331 | Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor. | |
1332 | ||
b930de78 | 1333 | @item |
236fd60d GM |
1334 | Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system; |
1335 | making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@: | |
1336 | Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various | |
1337 | MH-E components. | |
b930de78 | 1338 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1339 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1340 | Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1341 | merging two versions of a file. |
1342 | ||
b930de78 | 1343 | @item |
236fd60d | 1344 | Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing |
b930de78 EZ |
1345 | manual pages without the @code{man} command. |
1346 | ||
6bf7aab6 DL |
1347 | @item |
1348 | Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder | |
1349 | to exit with valuable buffers unsaved. | |
1350 | ||
431e8396 EZ |
1351 | @item |
1352 | Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU | |
107bb0f4 | 1353 | linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode. |
431e8396 EZ |
1354 | |
1355 | @item | |
1356 | Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track | |
236fd60d GM |
1357 | of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine |
1358 | if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package. | |
431e8396 | 1359 | |
107bb0f4 KS |
1360 | @item |
1361 | Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client. | |
67ffa16f | 1362 | |
b930de78 | 1363 | @item |
2d3328f2 CY |
1364 | Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major |
1365 | mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote | |
1366 | @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode | |
1367 | terminal. | |
b930de78 EZ |
1368 | |
1369 | @item | |
236fd60d GM |
1370 | Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text; |
1371 | @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that | |
1372 | uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for | |
67ffa16f | 1373 | adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files. |
b930de78 EZ |
1374 | |
1375 | @item | |
2d3328f2 CY |
1376 | Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to |
1377 | zone out in front of Emacs. | |
b930de78 | 1378 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1379 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1380 | Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and |
1381 | Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which | |
236fd60d GM |
1382 | implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and |
1383 | @file{rxvt.el}. | |
6bf7aab6 DL |
1384 | |
1385 | @item | |
67ffa16f CY |
1386 | Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections. |
1387 | With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used | |
1388 | from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package | |
1389 | that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and | |
1390 | @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands | |
1391 | for tar files. | |
6bf7aab6 | 1392 | |
73cae835 | 1393 | @item |
9dfa7983 | 1394 | Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons. |
73cae835 | 1395 | |
b930de78 | 1396 | @item |
67ffa16f CY |
1397 | Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing |
1398 | binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME | |
1399 | messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package; | |
1400 | @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and | |
236fd60d GM |
1401 | @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several |
1402 | other Gnus components. | |
b930de78 | 1403 | |
6bf7aab6 | 1404 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1405 | Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}. |
6bf7aab6 | 1406 | |
236fd60d GM |
1407 | @item |
1408 | Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}. | |
1409 | ||
6bf7aab6 | 1410 | @item |
da4cf7c5 | 1411 | Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the |
6bf7aab6 | 1412 | VI text editor. |
a73534a9 GM |
1413 | |
1414 | @item | |
b930de78 EZ |
1415 | Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps |
1416 | with visual feedback. | |
fcf27a65 | 1417 | |
d621caf7 | 1418 | @end itemize |