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2 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
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6 @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
8
9 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
11 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
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
16 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
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.
21
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.
25 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
26 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
27 @c emacs.texi is used.
28
29 @itemize @bullet
30 @item
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}.
41
42 @item
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
45
46 @item
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.
50
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; @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
55 interface; and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
56 storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
57 provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
58 other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
59 @file{tramp-cache.el}.
60
61 @item
62 Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
63 point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
64 in the buffer.
65
66 @item
67 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
68 implemented support for X11.
69
70 @item
71 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
72 files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
73 default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
74 @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
75 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
76 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
77 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.
78
79 @item
80 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
81 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
82
83 @item
84 Juanma Barranquero wrote @file{emacs-lock.el} (based on the original
85 version by Tom Wurgler), which makes it harder to exit with valuable
86 buffers unsaved. He also made many other contributions to other
87 areas, including MS Windows support.
88
89 @item
90 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
91 Emacs.
92
93 @item
94 Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
95 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
96 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
97 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
98
99 @item
100 Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
101 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
102 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
103 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
104 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
105 ERC distribution).
106
107 @item
108 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
109 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
110 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
111
112 @item
113 Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
114
115 @item
116 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
117 Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
118
119 @item
120 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
121 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
122
123 @item
124 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
125 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
126 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
127 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
128 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
129
130 @item
131 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
132 buffer.
133
134 @item
135 Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
136 that learns landmarks.
137
138 @item
139 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
140 output.
141
142 @item
143 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
144 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
145 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
146 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
147 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
148 the ``generic mode'' feature.
149
150 @item
151 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
152 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
153 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
154
155 @item
156 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
157 Emacs's outline modes.
158
159 @item
160 David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
161 tabular data.
162
163 @item
164 W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
165 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
166
167 @item
168 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
169 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
170
171 @item
172 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
173 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
174 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
175
176 @item
177 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
178 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
179 Lisp.
180
181 @item
182 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
183 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
184
185 @item
186 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
187 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
188 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.
189
190 @item
191 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
192 for Korean Hanja.
193
194 @item
195 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
196 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
197
198 @item
199 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He made many
200 improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
201 @file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data.
202
203 @item
204 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
205 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
206 Emacs's dumping procedures.
207
208 @item
209 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
210
211 @item
212 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
213 use it, Snake and Tetris.
214
215 @item
216 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
217 it is analyzed for spam.
218
219 @item
220 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
221 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
222
223 @item
224 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
225
226 @item
227 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
228 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
229
230 @item
231 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
232 files as ``thumbnails.''
233
234 @item
235 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
236 (@file{notifications.el}); and @file{color.el}, a library for general
237 color manipulation. He also made various contributions to Gnus.
238
239 @item
240 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
241 source tree to HTML.
242
243 @item
244 Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
245 new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
246
247 @item
248 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
249 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
250
251 @item
252 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
253 text replace the current selection.
254
255 @item
256 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
257
258 @item
259 Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
260 He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
261
262 @item
263 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
264 cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
265 (q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
266 todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Jan Böcker, Lennart
267 Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Daniel German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip
268 Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima, Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
269 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley,
270 and Piotr Zielinski also wrote various Org mode components.
271
272 @item
273 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
274 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
275
276 @item
277 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
278 pong game.
279
280 @item
281 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
282
283 @item
284 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
285
286 @item
287 Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
288
289 @item
290 Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
291 other portability fixes to the C code; as well as his contributions
292 to VC and the calendar.
293
294 @item
295 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
296 folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
297 for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
298
299 @item
300 Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
301
302 @item
303 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
304
305 @item
306 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
307 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
308
309 @item
310 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
311 code.
312
313 @item
314 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
315 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
316
317 @item
318 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
319 Language source code.
320
321 @item
322 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
323 Morse code.
324
325 @item
326 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
327 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
328 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
329
330 @item
331 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
332
333 @item
334 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
335 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
336 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
337 location in files between editing sessions.
338
339 @item
340 Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
341 editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
342 together.
343
344 @item
345 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
346 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
347 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
348 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
349
350 @item
351 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
352
353 @item
354 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
355
356 @item
357 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
358 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
359 flow control.
360
361 @item
362 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
363 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
364
365 @item
366 Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
367 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
368
369 @item
370 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
371 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
372 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
373 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
374 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
375 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
376 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
377 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
378
379 @item
380 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
381 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
382 last-change time stamps in files.
383
384 @item
385 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
386 Gnus.
387
388 @item
389 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
390 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
391 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
392 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
393 keyboard macros.
394
395 @item
396 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
397 using a Lisp-like syntax.
398
399 @item
400 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
401 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
402 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
403 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
404 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
405 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
406 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
407
408 @item
409 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
410 taking the file name from the buffer.
411
412 @item
413 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
414
415 @item
416 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
417 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
418 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
419
420 @item
421 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
422 as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
423
424 @item
425 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
426 related to the currently visited file.
427
428 @item
429 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
430
431 @item
432 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
433 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
434 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
435 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
436 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
437 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
438 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
439 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
440 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
441
442 @item
443 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
444
445 @item
446 Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
447
448 @item
449 K.@: Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
450 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
451 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
452 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
453 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
454 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
455 files and buffers without editing them.
456
457 @item
458 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
459 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
460
461 @item
462 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
463 format of Unicode.
464
465 @item
466 Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
467
468 @item
469 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
470 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
471 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
472
473 @item
474 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
475
476 @item
477 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
478 expansion package.
479
480 @item
481 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
482 DVI documents.
483
484 @item
485 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
486 template instantiations.
487
488 @item
489 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
490
491 @item
492 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
493 browser to display a URL.
494
495 @item
496 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
497 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
498 Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
499 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
500 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
501 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
502 He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
503 and @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs.
504 Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
505 Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
506 Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
507 Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
508 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi
509 Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
510 Gnus Manual}).
511
512 @item
513 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
514
515 @item
516 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
517
518 @item
519 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
520 command-line.
521
522 @item
523 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
524 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
525 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
526 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
527
528 @item
529 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
530
531 @item
532 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
533 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
534
535 @item
536 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
537 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
538 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
539 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
540 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
541 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
542 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
543 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
544 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
545 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
546
547 @item
548 Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
549 automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
550
551 @item
552 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
553 control system.
554
555 @item
556 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
557 mail with SMTP.
558
559 @item
560 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
561 control system.
562
563 @item
564 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
565 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
566 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
567 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
568
569 @item
570 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
571 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
572
573 @item
574 Taro Kawagishi implemented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
575 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
576 authentication support.
577
578 @item
579 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
580 buffers.
581
582 @item
583 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
584 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
585 Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
586
587 @item
588 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
589 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
590 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
591 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
592 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
593
594 @item
595 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
596 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
597 Emacs.
598
599 @item
600 Karel Klí@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
601 Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
602
603 @item
604 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
605 strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
606 and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
607
608 @item
609 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
610 on-the-fly syntax checking.
611
612 @item
613 David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
614 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
615
616 @item
617 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
618 inline images.
619
620 @item
621 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
622 menu support.
623
624 @item
625 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
626 R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
627 @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
628 program.
629
630 @item
631 David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
632 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
633
634 @item
635 Igor Kuzmin wrote @file{cconv.el}, providing closure conversion for
636 statically scoped Emacs lisp.
637
638 @item
639 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
640 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
641 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support;
642 @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp
643 objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
644 He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
645
646 @item
647 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
648 editing JavaScript.
649
650 @item
651 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
652 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
653 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
654 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
655 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
656 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
657 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
658 whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
659 used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
660
661 @item
662 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
663 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
664
665 @item
666 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
667 Emacs Lisp programs.
668
669 @item
670 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
671 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
672 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
673
674 @item
675 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
676 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
677 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
678 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
679 that show the same buffer.
680
681 @item
682 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
683 files.
684
685 @item
686 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
687 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
688 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
689 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
690
691 @item
692 Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows Emacs to
693 run on graphical and text-only terminals simultaneously.
694
695 @item
696 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
697 control annotation.
698
699 @item
700 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
701 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
702 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
703 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
704 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
705 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
706 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
707 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
708 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
709 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
710 for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
711 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
712 by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
713 for the Python programming language; @file{smiley.el}, a facility for
714 displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing
715 mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code
716 execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of
717 the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el},
718 support for the Bazaar version control system.
719
720 @item
721 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
722 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
723 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
724 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc; and
725 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
726 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
727 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
728 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
729
730 @item
731 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
732 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
733
734 @item
735 Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
736 simple substitution ciphers.
737
738 @item
739 Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
740 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
741 used by the @code{calendar} package.
742
743 @item
744 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
745 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
746 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
747
748 @item
749 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
750
751 @item
752 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
753 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
754
755 @item
756 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
757 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
758 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
759 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
760
761 @item
762 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
763 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
764 bibliography files.
765
766 @item
767 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
768 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
769
770 @item
771 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
772
773 @item
774 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
775 blackbox game.
776
777 @item
778 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
779 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
780 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
781 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
782 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
783 for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
784 with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
785 command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
786 @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
787 files.
788
789 @item
790 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
791
792 @item
793 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
794 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
795 modes.
796
797 @item
798 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
799 command with its arguments.
800
801 @item
802 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
803 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
804 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
805 @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
806 used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a
807 terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an
808 essential utility.
809
810 @item
811 Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
812 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
813 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
814 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
815 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
816 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
817 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
818 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
819
820 @item
821 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He added
822 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
823 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
824 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
825 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
826 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
827 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
828 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
829 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
830 @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
831 client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; and @file{pcase.el},
832 implementing ML-style pattern matching.
833
834 @item
835 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
836 elsewhere.
837
838 @item
839 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
840 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
841
842 @item
843 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
844 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
845 URLs.
846
847 @item
848 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
849 @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
850 @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
851 @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
852
853 @item
854 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
855 a mode for editing makefiles.
856
857 @item
858 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
859 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
860
861 @item
862 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
863 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
864 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
865 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
866 the status of version-controlled directories.
867
868 @item
869 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
870
871 @item
872 Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
873 history between Emacs sessions.
874
875 @item
876 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
877 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
878
879 @item
880 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
881 support.
882
883 @item
884 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
885 generating JSON files.
886
887 @item
888 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
889
890 @item
891 Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression
892 testing.
893
894 @item
895 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
896 splitting mechanism.
897
898 @item
899 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
900 embedded text-based tables.
901
902 @item
903 Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
904 the MIX assembly language.
905
906 @item
907 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
908 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
909 game to fill all squares on the field.
910
911 @item
912 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
913
914 @item
915 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
916 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
917
918 @item
919 William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
920 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
921 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
922 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
923 package.
924
925 @item
926 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
927
928 @item
929 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
930 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
931
932 @item
933 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
934 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
935 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
936 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
937 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
938 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
939 for simultaneous two-column editing.
940
941 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
942 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
943 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
944 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
945 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
946
947 @item
948 Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
949 1460) interface for Emacs.
950
951 @item
952 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
953 widgets.
954
955 @item
956 François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
957 support for PO translation files.
958
959 @item
960 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
961 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
962
963 @item
964 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
965 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
966 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
967 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
968 structures.
969
970 @item
971 Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
972 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
973 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
974
975 @item
976 Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
977 for editing Fortran code.
978
979 @item
980 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
981 bibliography files by keyword.
982
983 @item
984 Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
985 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
986 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
987 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
988 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
989 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
990 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
991 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
992 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
993 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
994 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
995 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
996 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
997 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
998
999 @item
1000 Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
1001 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
1002 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
1003 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
1004 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
1005 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
1006 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
1007 F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
1008 Gore.
1009
1010 @item
1011 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
1012 system's designated mail client.
1013
1014 @item
1015 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
1016 of the current function in the mode line.
1017
1018 @item
1019 Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing
1020 an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor,
1021 and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC
1022 VT line of terminals.
1023
1024 @item
1025 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
1026 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
1027 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
1028 @file{gdb-ui.el}.
1029
1030 @item
1031 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1032 into ``handwriting.''
1033
1034 @item
1035 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1036
1037 @item
1038 Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1039 DSSSL code.
1040
1041 @item
1042 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1043 configurations so you can move back to them.
1044
1045 @item
1046 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1047 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1048
1049 @item
1050 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1051 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
1052 support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
1053
1054 @item
1055 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1056 references in Info files.
1057
1058 @item
1059 James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1060 dynamic word completion.
1061
1062 @item
1063 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
1064
1065 @item
1066 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1067 message signatures.
1068
1069 @item
1070 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1071 sessions within Emacs.
1072
1073 @item
1074 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1075 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1076 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1077
1078 @item
1079 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1080 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1081
1082 @item
1083 Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1084
1085 @item
1086 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1087 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1088
1089 @item
1090 Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
1091
1092 @item
1093 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1094 Solitaire game.
1095
1096 @item
1097 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1098 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1099 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1100 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1101 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1102 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1103 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
1104
1105 @item
1106 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1107
1108 @item
1109 Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
1110 @file{TODO} list files.
1111
1112 @item
1113 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1114 as you type.
1115
1116 @item
1117 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1118 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1119
1120 @item
1121 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1122 commercial email.
1123
1124 @item
1125 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1126 recent editing changes.
1127
1128 @item
1129 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1130 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1131 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1132 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1133 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1134
1135 @item
1136 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1137
1138 @item
1139 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1140 mostly-constant data.
1141
1142 @item
1143 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1144 help for key bindings.
1145
1146 @item
1147 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1148
1149 @item
1150 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1151 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1152
1153 @item
1154 Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1155
1156 @item
1157 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1158 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1159 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1160
1161 @item
1162 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1163 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1164
1165 @item
1166 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1167 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1168
1169 @item
1170 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1171 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1172 periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
1173 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1174 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1175 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1176 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1177 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1178
1179 @item
1180 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1181 maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1182 @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1183
1184 @item
1185 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1186 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1187
1188 @item
1189 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
1190 cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1191
1192 @item
1193 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
1194
1195 @item
1196 Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1197 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1198 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1199 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1200 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1201 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1202 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1203
1204 @item
1205 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1206 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1207
1208 @item
1209 Steve Strassmann did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1210 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1211
1212 @item
1213 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1214 buffers.
1215
1216 @item
1217 Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1218 editing text in Slovak language.
1219
1220 @item
1221 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1222 the keyboard.
1223
1224 @item
1225 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1226 image files as ``thumbnails.''
1227
1228 @item
1229 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1230 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1231 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1232 support.
1233
1234 @item
1235 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1236
1237 @item
1238 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1239 numbers in the left margin.
1240
1241 @item
1242 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1243 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1244 subprocess.
1245
1246 @item
1247 Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
1248 bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs package system.
1249
1250 @item
1251 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1252
1253 @item
1254 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1255 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1256 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1257 and Security Layer (SASL); @file{plstore.el} for secure storage of
1258 property lists; and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1259 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1260
1261 @item
1262 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1263 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1264 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
1265 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
1266 @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an
1267 mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface
1268 for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
1269 time zones.
1270
1271 @item
1272 Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1273
1274 @item
1275 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1276 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1277 (q.v.@:).
1278
1279 @item
1280 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1281
1282 @item
1283 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1284 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1285 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1286
1287 @item
1288 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1289 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1290 providing electric accent keys.
1291
1292 @item
1293 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1294
1295 @item
1296 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for
1297 working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing
1298 C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs,
1299 Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for
1300 Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual
1301 pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in
1302 lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug
1303 reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for
1304 quoting sections of mail messages and news articles.
1305
1306 @item
1307 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1308 grammar files.
1309
1310 @item
1311 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1312 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1313 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1314 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1315 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1316 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1317 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1318 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1319 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1320 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1321 for use under MS-DOS.
1322
1323 @item
1324 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
1325 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1326 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1327 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1328 from Jamie Zawinski.
1329
1330 @item
1331 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1332 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1333
1334 @item
1335 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1336 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1337 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1338 time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
1339 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1340 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1341 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1342 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1343 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
1344
1345 @item
1346 Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
1347 selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
1348 the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
1349
1350 @item
1351 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1352
1353 @item
1354 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1355 making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
1356 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
1357 MH-E components.
1358
1359 @item
1360 Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1361 merging two versions of a file.
1362
1363 @item
1364 Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1365 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1366
1367 @item
1368 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1369 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
1370 ``guessing'' in CC mode.
1371
1372 @item
1373 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1374 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1375 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1376
1377 @item
1378 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1379
1380 @item
1381 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1382 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1383 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1384 terminal.
1385
1386 @item
1387 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1388 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1389 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1390 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1391
1392 @item
1393 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1394 zone out in front of Emacs.
1395
1396 @item
1397 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1398 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1399 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1400 @file{rxvt.el}.
1401
1402 @item
1403 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1404 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1405 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1406 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1407 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1408 for tar files.
1409
1410 @item
1411 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1412
1413 @item
1414 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1415 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1416 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1417 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1418 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1419 other Gnus components.
1420
1421 @item
1422 Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1423
1424 @item
1425 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1426
1427 @item
1428 Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1429 VI text editor.
1430
1431 @item
1432 Ted Zlatanov (as well as his contributions to the Gnus newsreader)
1433 wrote an interface to the GnuTLS library, for secure network
1434 connections; and a futures facility for the URL library.
1435
1436 @item
1437 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1438 with visual feedback.
1439
1440 @end itemize