@c -*- coding: iso-latin-1 -*-
@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@c
-@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
+@node Acknowledgments
@unnumbered Acknowledgments
Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
-news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
+news articles; @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
@file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
@acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
@item
-Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
+Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
files.
Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
implemented support for X11.
+@item
+Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
+a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
+
@item
Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
@code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
@file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
-individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.
+individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. He
+also worked on an early version of the lexical binding code.
@item
David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
Emacs.
@item
-Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
+Steven L. Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
@file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
@file{gnus-setup.el}.
@item
-Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
+Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
NeXTstep port of Emacs.
@item
-Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
+Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
@item
Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
-@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
+@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.).
@item
Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
buffer.
@item
-Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
+Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
that learns landmarks.
@item
Emacs's outline modes.
@item
-David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
+David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
tabular data.
@item
Lisp.
@item
-Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
+Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J. D. Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
@item
Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
@file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
-and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.
+and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. He also
+wrote the ``Introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp'' manual.
@item
Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He made many
improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
-@file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data.
+@file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
+and improved support for themes and packages.
@item
James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
it is analyzed for spam.
+@item
+Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
+generating JSON files.
+
@item
Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
@item
Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
-files as ``thumbnails.''
+files as ``thumbnails''.
@item
Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
-(@file{notifications.el}); and @file{color.el}, a library for general
-color manipulation. He also made various contributions to Gnus.
+(@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
+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
source tree to HTML.
-@item
-Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
-new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
-
-@item
-Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
-@file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
-
@item
Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
text replace the current selection.
@item
Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
-cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
-(q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
-todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Jan Böcker, Lennart
-Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Daniel German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip
-Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima, Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
-Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley,
-and Piotr Zielinski also wrote various Org mode components.
+cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
+(q.v.). He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
+todo lists, and project planning. Bastien Guerry subsequently took
+over maintainership. Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
+Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S. Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
+Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
+Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
+Piotr Zielinski, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
+For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
@item
Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
@item
-Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
+Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
@item
Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
@file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
flow control.
+@item
+Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
+Python programming language used in Emacs 24.3 onwards.
+
@item
Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
@file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
@item
Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
-as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
+as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.).
@item
Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
@item
-K.@: Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
+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
Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
format of Unicode.
-@item
-Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
-
@item
Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
@code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
@item
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
-Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
+Emacs, including: @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.
He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
-and @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs.
+@file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
+and implemented libxml2 support.
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
@item
Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
-automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
+automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
@item
Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
-those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
+those databases to the format used by the @LaTeX{} text formatting package.
@item
Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
@item
Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
@command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
-Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
+Viper, another emulator of the VI editor.
@item
Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
@item
Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
-strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
-and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
+strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
@item
Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
on-the-fly syntax checking.
@item
-David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
+David M. Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
@item
@item
Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
-R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
-@code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
+R. Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
+@code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
program.
@item
@item
Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
-debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support;
-@file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp
-objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
-He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
+debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; and
+@file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. He also
+co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.).
@item
Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
@file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
@file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
-whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
-used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
+whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
@item
Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
@item
Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
-for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
+for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.); and rewrote
@file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
@item
creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
@item
-Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows Emacs to
-run on graphical and text-only terminals simultaneously.
+Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
+Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
@item
Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
-by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
-for the Python programming language; @file{smiley.el}, a facility for
-displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing
-mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code
-execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of
-the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el},
-support for the Bazaar version control system.
+by setting up appropriate display tables; the version of
+@file{python.el} used prior to Emacs 24.3; @file{smiley.el}, a
+facility for displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library
+for performing mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el}
+for timing code execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control
+the display of the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote
+@file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar version control system.
@item
Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
+@item
+Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
+Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
+visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
+package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
+in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
+Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
+from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
+@code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
+question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
+maintenance of autoload files.
+
@item
Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
@item
-Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
+Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
+
+@item
+Christopher J. Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
simple substitution ciphers.
@item
-Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
+Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
used by the @code{calendar} package.
Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
@item
-Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
-blackbox game.
-
-@item
-Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
-Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
-visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
-package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
-in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
-for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
-with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
-command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
-@file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
-files.
+Tomohiro Matsuyama wrote the native Elisp profiler.
@item
-Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
+Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
+blackbox game.
@item
David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
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; @file{mpc.el}, a
-client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; and @file{pcase.el},
-implementing ML-style pattern matching.
+@file{bibtex-style.el} for Bib@TeX{} Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
+client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; @file{smie.el}, a generic
+indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
+matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
+cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
+functions at runtime), and added generalized variables to core Emacs
+Lisp.
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
elsewhere.
-@item
-Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
-@file{robin.el}, another input method.
-
@item
Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
@item
Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
-@file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
-@file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
-@file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
+@file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
+@file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
+@file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
+
+@item
+Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.), and wrote
+@file{robin.el}, another input method.
@item
Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
+@item
+Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
+
@item
Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
the status of version-controlled directories.
-@item
-Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
-
@item
Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
history between Emacs sessions.
Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
support.
-@item
-Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
-generating JSON files.
-
@item
Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
embedded text-based tables.
@item
-Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
+Pieter E. J. Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
the MIX assembly language.
@item
the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
@item
-William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
+William M. Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
@file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
(q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
@item
-Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
+Richard L. Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
1460) interface for Emacs.
@item
structures.
@item
-Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
+Francesco A. Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
@item
-Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
+Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
for editing Fortran code.
@item
bibliography files by keyword.
@item
-Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
+Eric S. Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
@item
-Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
+Edward M. Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
-Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
+Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B. Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
-F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
+F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
Gore.
@item
@item
Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
-terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
+terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB@.
Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
@file{gdb-ui.el}.
@item
Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
-into ``handwriting.''
+into ``handwriting''.
@item
Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
@item
-Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
+Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
DSSSL code.
+@item
+Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24.
+
@item
Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
configurations so you can move back to them.
references in Info files.
@item
-James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
+James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
dynamic word completion.
@item
editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
@item
-Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
+Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
@item
Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
@file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
@file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
-wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
+wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.).
@item
Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
@item
-Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
+Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
@item
William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
@item
-Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
+Kim F. Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
process support, and networking support. He also wrote
@file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
@item
Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
-image files as ``thumbnails.''
+image files as ``thumbnails''.
@item
Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
@item
Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
-subprocess.
-
-@item
-Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
-bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs package system.
+subprocess. Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
+clickable links to 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.
time zones.
@item
-Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
+Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
@item
Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
-(q.v.@:).
+(q.v.).
+
+@item
+Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
@item
Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
@item
-Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for
-working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing
-C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs,
-Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for
-Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual
-pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in
-lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug
-reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for
-quoting sections of mail messages and news articles.
+Barry Warsaw wrote @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing C, C@t{++},
+and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen,
+and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for Emacs Lisp
+programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual pages;
+@file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
+programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for
+lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting
+sections of mail messages and news articles.
@item
Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
for use under MS-DOS.
@item
-Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
+Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.);
@file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
@file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
@file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
-entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
+entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.).
@item
-Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
-selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
-the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
+Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
+finding the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) at point.
@item
Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
@item
Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
-making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
-Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
+making use of earlier work by James R. Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.
+Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C. Honig also wrote various
MH-E components.
@item
-Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
+Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
merging two versions of a file.
@item
-Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
+Francis J. Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
manual pages without the @code{man} command.
@item
Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
-@file{rxvt.el}.
+@file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text.
@item
Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
other Gnus components.
@item
-Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
+Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
@item
Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
@item
-Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
+Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
VI text editor.
@item
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