man/ack.texi

   1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
   2 @c Copyright (C) 1994,1995,1996,1997,1999,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
   4 @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
   5 @chapter Acknowledgments
   6
   7 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
   8 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs.  To show our appreciation for
   9 their public spirit, we list here, in alphabetical order, those who have
  10 written substantial portions.
  11
  12 @itemize @bullet
  13 @item
  14 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well as
  15 @file{double.el} for typing accented characters not normally available
  16 from the keyboard, @file{xt-mouse.el} which handles mouse commands
  17 through Xterm, and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of C
  18 programs according to preprocessor conditionals.
  19
  20 @item
  21 Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic
  22 decompression and recompression for compressed files.
  23
  24 @item
  25 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
  26 implemented support for X11.
  27
  28 @item
  29 Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote @file{profile.el}, to time Emacs Lisp functions.
  30
  31 @item
  32 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
  33 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
  34 frame support and multi-face support.
  35
  36 @item
  37 Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
  38 that learns landmarks.
  39
  40 @item
  41 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
  42 output.
  43
  44 @item
  45 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack} which does better tracking of
  46 directory changes in shell buffers, @file{filecache.el} which records
  47 which directories your files are in, @file{locate.el} which interfaces
  48 to the @code{locate} command, @file{net-utils.el}, and the ``generic
  49 mode'' feature.
  50
  51 @item
  52 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
  53 Emacs's outline modes.
  54
  55 @item
  56 Vincent Broman wrote @file{ada.el}, a mode for editing Ada code
  57 (since replaced by @file{ada-mode.el}).
  58
  59 @item
  60 David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
  61 tabular data.
  62
  63 @item
  64 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}.
  65
  66 @item
  67 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
  68 Emacs Lisp functions, and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
  69 Lisp.
  70
  71 @item
  72 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el} and @file{makeinfo.el}, modes
  73 and utilities for working with Texinfo files.
  74
  75 @item
  76 James Clark wrote @file{sgml-mode.el}, a mode for editing SGML
  77 documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures.
  78
  79 @item
  80 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
  81
  82 @item
  83 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
  84 use it, Snake and Tetris.
  85
  86 @item
  87 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
  88
  89 @item
  90 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
  91 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
  92
  93 @item
  94 Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
  95 new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
  96
  97 @item
  98 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
  99 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
 100
 101 @item
 102 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
 103 text replace the current selection.
 104
 105 @item
 106 Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el},
 107
 108 @item
 109 Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up
 110 labels and cross-references for La@TeX{}.
 111
 112 @item
 113 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
 114 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
 115
 116 @item
 117 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
 118
 119 @item
 120 John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files).
 121
 122 @item
 123 Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}).
 124
 125 @item
 126 Stephen Eglen implemented @file{mspools.el}, for use with Procmail,
 127 which tells you which mail folders have mail waiting in them, and
 128 @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature for incremental reading and completion of
 129 buffer names.
 130
 131 @item
 132 @c iftex
 133 Torbj@"orn
 134 @c end iftex
 135 @c ifinfo
 136 @c Torbjorn
 137 @c end ifinfo
 138 Einarsson contributed F90 mode (@file{f90.el}).
 139
 140 @item
 141 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
 142
 143 @item
 144 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
 145 code.
 146
 147 @item
 148 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
 149 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
 150
 151 @item
 152 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
 153 Language source code.
 154
 155 @item
 156 Frederick Farnback implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
 157 morse code.
 158
 159 @item
 160 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
 161
 162 @item
 163 Karl Fogel wrote:
 164 @itemize @bullet
 165 @item
 166 @file{bookmark.el}, for creating named placeholders, saving them and
 167 jumping to them later,
 168 @item
 169 @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing mail messages, and
 170 @item
 171 @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's location in files between
 172 editing sessions.
 173 @end itemize
 174
 175 @item
 176 Gary Foster wrote the emulation for CRiSP: @file{crisp.el} and
 177 @file{scroll-lock.el}.
 178
 179 @item
 180 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin, and
 181 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
 182 typing.  With Roland McGrath, he wrote @file{rsz-mini.el}, a minor mode
 183 to automatically resize the minibuffer to fit the text it contains.
 184
 185 @item
 186 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
 187
 188 @item
 189 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
 190 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
 191 flow control.
 192
 193 @item
 194 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT.
 195
 196 @item
 197 Howard Gayle wrote:
 198 @itemize @bullet
 199 @item
 200 the C and lisp code for display tables and case tables,
 201 @item
 202 @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the plaintext form of a buffer
 203 encoded with the Caesar cipher,
 204 @item
 205 much of the support for the ISO-8859 European character set (which
 206 includes @file{iso-ascii.el}, @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
 207 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}), and
 208 @item
 209 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LED's on
 210 VT100-compatible terminals.
 211 @end itemize
 212
 213 @item
 214 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card.
 215
 216 @item
 217 David Gillespie wrote:
 218 @itemize @bullet
 219 @item
 220 Emacs 19's Common Lisp compatibility packages, replacing the old package
 221 by Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez,
 222 @item
 223 @file{complete.el}, a partial completion mechanism, and
 224 @item
 225 @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing keyboard macros.
 226 @end itemize
 227
 228 @item
 229 Bob Glickstein contributed the @file{sregex.el} feature.
 230
 231 @item
 232 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
 233 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
 234 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
 235 @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in files;
 236 and @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces.
 237
 238 @item
 239 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
 240 taking the file name from the buffer.
 241
 242 @item
 243 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el}.
 244
 245 @item
 246 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
 247 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@code{ASCII}
 248 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
 249
 250 @item
 251 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
 252 related to the currently visited file.
 253
 254 @item
 255 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
 256
 257 @item
 258 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
 259 character sets.
 260
 261 @item
 262 Chris Hanson wrote @file{netuname.el}, a package to use HP-UX's Remote
 263 File Access facility from Emacs.
 264
 265 @item
 266 K. Shane Hartman wrote:
 267 @itemize @bullet
 268 @item
 269 @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el}, packages for browsing
 270 command history lists,
 271 @item
 272 @file{electric.el} and @file{helper.el}, providing an alternative
 273 command loop and appropriate help facilities,
 274 @item
 275 @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for reporting Emacs bugs,
 276 @item
 277 @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing ASCII pictures, and
 278 @item
 279 @file{view.el}, a package for perusing files and buffers without editing
 280 them.
 281 @end itemize
 282
 283 @item
 284 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
 285 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
 286
 287 @item
 288 Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}).
 289
 290 @item
 291 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
 292 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
 293 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
 294
 295 @item
 296 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to the MS-DOS operating system.
 297
 298 @item
 299 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
 300 expansion package.
 301
 302 @item
 303 Kurt Hornik co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files).
 304
 305 @item
 306 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C++ template
 307 instantiations.
 308
 309 @item
 310 Lars Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the GNUS newsreader.
 311
 312 @item
 313 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the Windows NT support.
 314
 315 @item
 316 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game,
 317 and @file{mldrag.el}, a package which allows the user to resize windows
 318 by dragging mode lines and vertical window separators with the mouse.
 319
 320 @item
 321 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
 322 mail with SMTP.
 323
 324 @item
 325 David Kaufman wrote @file{yow.c}, an essential utility program for the
 326 hopelessly pinheaded.
 327
 328 @item
 329 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
 330 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
 331 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
 332 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
 333
 334 @item
 335 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
 336 buffers.
 337
 338 @item
 339 Michael Kifer wrote @file{ediff.el}, an interactive interface to the
 340 @code{diff} and @code{patch} programs, and Viper, the newest emulation
 341 for VI.
 342
 343 @item
 344 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
 345 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
 346 editing the same file.
 347 @c We're not using his backquote.el any more.
 348
 349 @item
 350 Larry K. Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail
 351 directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format.
 352
 353 @item
 354 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
 355 menu support.
 356
 357 @item
 358 Sebastian Kremer wrote Emacs 19's @code{dired-mode}, with contributions
 359 by Lawrence R. Dodd.
 360
 361 @item
 362 Geoff Kuenning wrote Emacs 19's @file{ispell.el}, based on work by Ken
 363 Stevens and others.
 364
 365 @item
 366 David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
 367 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
 368
 369 @item
 370 Daniel LaLiberte wrote:
 371 @itemize @bullet
 372 @item
 373 @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp,
 374 @item
 375 @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug} debug code
 376 written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support,
 377 @item
 378 @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp objects,
 379 @item
 380 @file{eval-reg.el}, a re-implementation of @code{eval-region} in Emacs
 381 Lisp, and
 382 @item
 383 @file{isearch.el}, Emacs 19's incremental search minor mode.
 384 @end itemize
 385
 386 @item
 387 James R. Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system.
 388
 389 @item
 390 Frederic Lepied contributed @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
 391 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
 392
 393 @item
 394 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
 395 for buffer selection, and rewrote @file{dabbrev.el}.
 396
 397 @item
 398 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package and @file{checkdoc.el}.
 399
 400 @item
 401 Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
 402 appointments.  It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
 403 generated by Edward M. Reingold's @code{calendar} package.
 404
 405 @item
 406 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
 407 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
 408 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
 409
 410 @item
 411 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
 412
 413 @item
 414 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
 415 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
 416
 417 @item
 418 Simon Marshall wrote:
 419 @itemize @bullet
 420 @item
 421 @file{fast-lock.el}, which caches the face data computed by Font Lock mode,
 422 @item
 423 @file{lazy-lock.el}, which delays fontification in Font Lock mode
 424 until text is actually displayed, and
 425 @item
 426 @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular expression from a list
 427 of strings.
 428 @end itemize
 429
 430 @item
 431 Bengt Martensson, Mark Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, and Stefan
 432 Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
 433 bibliography files.
 434
 435 @item
 436 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
 437 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
 438
 439 @item
 440 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
 441 blackbox game.
 442
 443 @item
 444 Roland McGrath wrote:
 445 @itemize @bullet
 446 @item
 447 @file{compile.el}, a package for running compilations in a buffer, and
 448 then visiting the locations reported in error messages,
 449 @item
 450 @file{etags.el}, a package for jumping to function definitions and
 451 searching or replacing in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file,
 452 @item
 453 @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output from the
 454 @code{find} program, with Sebastian Kremer,
 455 @item
 456 @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker,
 457 @item
 458 @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
 459 files, and
 460 @item
 461 @file{upd-copyr.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of copyright
 462 notices in source code.
 463 @end itemize
 464
 465 @item
 466 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
 467 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
 468 modes.
 469
 470 @item
 471 Wayne Mesard wrote @file{hscroll.el} which does horizontal scrolling
 472 automatically.
 473
 474 @item
 475 Richard Mlynarik wrote:
 476 @itemize @bullet
 477 @item
 478 @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting Common Lisp code,
 479 @item
 480 @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for buffer listings,
 481 @item
 482 @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens,
 483 @item
 484 @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
 485 used in mail messages and news articles,
 486 @item
 487 @file{terminal.el}, a terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses, and
 488 @item
 489 @file{yow.el}, an essential utility (try @kbd{M-x yow}).
 490 @end itemize
 491
 492 @item
 493 Gerd Moellmann wrote the new display engine for Emacs 21, the
 494 @code{ebrowse} C@t{++} browser, and @file{jit-lock.el},
 495 @file{tooltip.el}, and @file{authors.el} packages.
 496
 497 @item
 498 Keith Moore wrote @file{aixcc.lex}, a pre-processor designed to help
 499 Emacs parse the error messages produced by the AIX C compiler.
 500
 501 @item
 502 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions, and has tested the
 503 latest source code daily.
 504
 505 @item
 506 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{makefile.el}, a mode for
 507 editing makefiles.
 508
 509 @item
 510 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
 511
 512 @item
 513 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
 514 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
 515
 516 @item
 517 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP support.
 518
 519 @item
 520 Jeff Peck wrote:
 521 @itemize @bullet
 522 @item
 523 @file{emacstool.c}, support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun Windows,
 524 @item
 525 @file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and
 526 @item
 527 @file{sun-fns.el}, providing mouse support for Sun Windows.
 528 @end itemize
 529
 530 @item
 531 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
 532 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
 533
 534 @item
 535 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
 536 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
 537
 538 @item
 539 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:
 540 @itemize @bullet
 541 @item
 542 @file{executable.el}
 543 @item
 544 @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing shell scripts,
 545 @item
 546 @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for writing
 547 statement skeletons, and
 548 @item
 549 @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode for simultaneous two-column editing.
 550 @end itemize
 551
 552 @item
 553 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
 554 widgets.
 555
 556 @item
 557 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
 558 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
 559
 560 @item
 561 Francesco A. Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
 562 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
 563
 564 @item
 565 Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode for
 566 editing FORTRAN code.
 567 @c We're not distributing his tex-mode.el anymore; we're using Ed Reingold's.
 568
 569 @item
 570 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
 571 bibliography files by keyword.
 572
 573 @item
 574 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
 575 @itemize @bullet
 576 @item
 577 @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS source code version
 578 control systems, with Paul Eggert,
 579 @item
 580 @file{gud.el}, a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB
 581 and SDB in Emacs,
 582 @item
 583 @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code,
 584 @item
 585 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
 586 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el},
 587 @item
 588 @file{finder.el}, a package for finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword
 589 and topic,
 590 @item
 591 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers used
 592 in Emacs Lisp library files, and
 593 @item
 594 code to set and make use of the @code{load-history} lisp variable, which
 595 records the source file from which each lisp function loaded into Emacs
 596 came.
 597 @end itemize
 598
 599 @item
 600 Edward M. Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support (try
 601 @kbd{M-x calendar}), with contributions from Stewart Clamen, Paul
 602 Eggert, and Lara Rios.  Andy Oram contributed to its documentation.
 603 Reingold has also contributed to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing
 604 @TeX{} files, as have William F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea,
 605 Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore.
 606
 607 @item
 608 Rob Riepel contributed @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files,
 609 providing an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT
 610 editor, and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for
 611 the DEC VT line of terminals.
 612
 613 @item
 614 Roland B. Roberts contributed much of the VMS support distributed with
 615 Emacs 19, along with Joseph M. Kelsey, and @file{vms-pmail.el}, support
 616 for using Emacs within VMS MAIL.
 617
 618 @item
 619 John Robinson wrote @file{bg-mouse.el}, support for the mouse on the BBN
 620 Bitgraph terminal.
 621
 622 @item
 623 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
 624 into ``handwriting.''
 625
 626 @item
 627 William Rosenblatt wrote @file{float.el}, implementing a floating-point
 628 numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers.
 629
 630 @item
 631 Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme
 632 code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer.
 633
 634 @item
 635 Ivar Rummelhoff provided @file{winner.el}, which records
 636 recent window configurations so you can move back to them.
 637
 638 @item
 639 Wolfgang Rupprecht contributed Emacs 19's floating-point support
 640 (including @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and
 641 @file{sup-mouse.el}, support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
 642
 643 @item
 644 James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
 645 dynamic word completion.
 646
 647 @item
 648 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
 649
 650 @item
 651 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
 652 sessions within Emacs.
 653
 654 @item
 655 Ralph Schleicher contributed @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
 656 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
 657 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
 658
 659 @item
 660 Gregor Schmid wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing Tcl/Tk scripts.
 661
 662 @item
 663 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
 664 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
 665
 666 @item
 667 Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
 668
 669 @item
 670 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
 671 against Emacs, and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
 672
 673 @item
 674 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
 675
 676 @item
 677 Manuel Serrano contributed the Flyspell package that does spell checking
 678 as you type.
 679
 680 @item
 681 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
 682 commercial email.
 683
 684 @item
 685 Richard Sharman contributed @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors
 686 to inclidate recent editing changes.
 687
 688 @item
 689 Olin Shivers wrote:
 690 @itemize @bullet
 691 @item
 692 @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running interactive command-line-
 693 oriented subprocesses,
 694 @item
 695 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes,
 696 @item
 697 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process, and
 698 @item
 699 @file{shell.el}, for running inferior shells.
 700 @end itemize
 701
 702 @item
 703 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
 704
 705 @item
 706 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
 707 mostly-constant data.
 708
 709 @item
 710 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
 711 help for key bindings.
 712
 713 @item
 714 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
 715
 716 @item
 717 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
 718 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
 719
 720 @item
 721 Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
 722
 723 @item
 724 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
 725 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
 726 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
 727
 728 @item
 729 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
 730 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
 731
 732 @item
 733 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
 734 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
 735
 736 @item
 737 Peter Stephenson contributed @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a
 738 ``virtual cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for
 739 copying text.
 740
 741 @item
 742 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el} and @file{midnight.el}.
 743
 744 @item
 745 Jonathan Stigelman wrote @file{hilit19.el}, a package providing
 746 automatic highlighting in source code buffers, mail readers, and other
 747 contexts.
 748
 749 @item
 750 Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
 751 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
 752
 753 @item
 754 Jens T. Berger Thielemann wrote @file{word-help.el}, which is
 755 part of the basis for @file{info-look.el}.
 756
 757 @item
 758 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
 759 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
 760 words for which it is a prefix.  He also wrote the original dumping
 761 support.
 762
 763 @item
 764 Jim Thompson wrote @file{ps-print.el}, which converts
 765 Emacs text to Postscript.
 766
 767 @item
 768 Masanobu Umeda wrote:
 769 @itemize @bullet
 770 @item
 771 GNUS, a featureful reader for Usenet news,
 772 @item
 773 @file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code,
 774 @item
 775 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders,
 776 @item
 777 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program,
 778 @item
 779 @file{tcp.el}, emulation of the @code{open-network-stream} function for
 780 some Emacs configurations which lack it, and
 781 @item
 782 @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones.
 783 @end itemize
 784
 785 @item
 786 Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
 787
 788 @item
 789 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
 790
 791 @item
 792 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support.
 793
 794 @item
 795 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, defining a
 796 mode for filling in forms, and @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode providing
 797 electric accent keys for text using the ISO-8859 character set.
 798
 799 @item
 800 Barry Warsaw wrote:
 801 @itemize @bullet
 802 @item
 803 @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for working with association
 804 lists,
 805 @item
 806 @file{cc-mode.el}, a major mode for editing C and C++ code, based on
 807 earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman,
 808 @item
 809 @file{elp.el}, a new profiler for Emacs Lisp programs.
 810 @item
 811 @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual pages,
 812 @item
 813 @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like control structure for
 814 use in lisp programs, and
 815 @item
 816 @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for lisp
 817 packages.
 818 @item
 819 @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting sections of mail messages
 820 and news articles,
 821 @end itemize
 822
 823 @item
 824 Morten Welinder introduced face support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs,
 825 and also wrote:
 826 @itemize @bullet
 827 @item
 828 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
 829 sessions,
 830 @item
 831 @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a given time or
 832 frequency, or when Emacs is idle,
 833 @item
 834 @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support,
 835 @item
 836 @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed archives,
 837 @item
 838 @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using the shift key
 839 and motion commands, and
 840 @item
 841 @file{dos-fns.el}, functions for use under MS-DOS.
 842 @end itemize
 843
 844 He also helped port Emacs to MS-DOS.
 845
 846 @item
 847 Joseph Brian Wells wrote:
 848 @itemize @bullet
 849 @item
 850 @file{apropos.el}, a command to find commands, functions, and variables
 851 whose names contain matches for a regular expression,
 852 @item
 853 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
 854 resuming a suspended Emacs job, and
 855 @item
 856 @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for extracting names and addresses from
 857 mail headers, with contributions from Jamie Zawinski.
 858 @end itemize
 859
 860 @item
 861 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}.
 862
 863 @item
 864 Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from
 865 RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format.
 866
 867 @item
 868 Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
 869 selection, and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
 870 the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
 871
 872 @item
 873 Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
 874 merging two versions of a file.
 875
 876 @item
 877 Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder
 878 to exit with valuable buffers unsaved.
 879
 880 @item
 881 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS.  He also
 882 wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which implements transparent mapping of X
 883 colors to tty colors, and (together with Kenichi Handa)
 884 @file{codepage.el}, a package for editing text encoded in DOS/Windows
 885 code pages.
 886
 887 @item
 888 Jamie Zawinski wrote:
 889 @itemize @bullet
 890 @item
 891 Emacs 19's optimizing byte compiler, with Hallvard Furuseth,
 892 @item
 893 much of the support for faces and X selections,
 894 @item
 895 @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package providing automatic expansion of mail
 896 aliases, and
 897 @item
 898 @file{tar-mode.el}, providing simple viewing and editing commands for
 899 tar files.
 900 @end itemize
 901
 902 @item
 903 Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
 904
 905 @item
 906 Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
 907 VI text editor.
 908
 909 @item
 910 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning
 911 text according to regular-expression based rules.
 912
 913 @item
 914 INOUE Seiichiro improved Emacs' XIM support.  Thanks to HORIKAWA Hisashi
 915 for suggestions.
 916 @end itemize
 917
 918 Others too numerous to mention have reported and fixed bugs, and added
 919 features to many parts of Emacs.  We thank them for their generosity as
 920 well.
 921
 922 This list intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
 923 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
 924 please report that as a manual bug.