@item
Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
-Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
-interface. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
+Avahi services; @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
+interface; and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
+storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
@file{tramp-cache.el}.
@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
-improvements to the Emacs display engine.
+improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
+@file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data.
@item
James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
@item
Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
-(@file{notifications.el}).
+(@file{notifications.el}); and @file{color.el}, a library for general
+color manipulation. He also made various contributions to Gnus.
@item
Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
@item
Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
+He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
@item
Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
@item
-K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
+Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
+
+@item
+K.@: Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
@file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
@file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
@file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
-@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of
-Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
-Kevin Greiner, Kai Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
+@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
+He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
+and @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs.
+Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
+Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
+Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
-Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
-Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
+Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi
+Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
+Gnus Manual}).
@item
Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
@code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
program.
-@item
-Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
-
@item
David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
+@item
+Igor Kuzmin wrote @file{cconv.el}, providing closure conversion for
+statically scoped Emacs lisp.
+
@item
Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
-@file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; and @file{mpc.el}, a
-client for the ``Music Player Daemon''.
+@file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
+client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; and @file{pcase.el},
+implementing ML-style pattern matching.
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
@item
-Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
-that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
+Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
@item
Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
@item
Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
-bug reports.
+bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs package system.
@item
Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
-and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
+and Security Layer (SASL); @file{plstore.el} for secure storage of
+propery lists; and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
@item
@item
Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
-linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode.
+linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
+``guessing'' in CC mode.
@item
Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
VI text editor.
+@item
+Ted Zlatanov (as well as his contributions to the Gnus newsreader)
+wrote an interface to the GnuTLS library, for secure network
+connections; and a futures facility for the URL library.
+
@item
Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
with visual feedback.
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