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2 @c Copyright (C) 1994,1995,1996,1997,1999,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
25829 | 3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
4 @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top | |
5 @chapter Acknowledgments | |
6 | |
7 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software | |
8 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for | |
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9 their public spirit, we list here, in alphabetical order, those who have |
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10 written substantial portions. |
25829 | 11 |
12 @itemize @bullet | |
13 @item | |
14 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well as | |
15 @file{double.el} for typing accented characters not normally available | |
16 from the keyboard, @file{xt-mouse.el} which handles mouse commands | |
17 through Xterm, and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of C | |
18 programs according to preprocessor conditionals. | |
19 | |
20 @item | |
21 Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic | |
22 decompression and recompression for compressed files. | |
23 | |
24 @item | |
25 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and | |
26 implemented support for X11. | |
27 | |
28 @item | |
29 Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote @file{profile.el}, to time Emacs Lisp functions. | |
30 | |
31 @item | |
32 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and | |
33 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the | |
34 frame support and multi-face support. | |
35 | |
36 @item | |
37 Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot | |
38 that learns landmarks. | |
39 | |
40 @item | |
41 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff} | |
42 output. | |
43 | |
44 @item | |
45 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack} which does better tracking of | |
46 directory changes in shell buffers, @file{filecache.el} which records | |
47 which directories your files are in, @file{locate.el} which interfaces | |
48 to the @code{locate} command, @file{net-utils.el}, and the ``generic | |
49 mode'' feature. | |
50 | |
51 @item | |
52 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to | |
53 Emacs's outline modes. | |
54 | |
55 @item | |
56 Vincent Broman wrote @file{ada.el}, a mode for editing Ada code | |
57 (since replaced by @file{ada-mode.el}). | |
58 | |
59 @item | |
60 David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other | |
61 tabular data. | |
62 | |
63 @item | |
64 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}. | |
65 | |
66 @item | |
67 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for | |
68 Emacs Lisp functions, and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs | |
69 Lisp. | |
70 | |
71 @item | |
72 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el} and @file{makeinfo.el}, modes | |
73 and utilities for working with Texinfo files. | |
74 | |
75 @item | |
76 James Clark wrote @file{sgml-mode.el}, a mode for editing SGML | |
77 documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures. | |
78 | |
79 @item | |
80 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor. | |
81 | |
82 @item | |
83 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that | |
84 use it, Snake and Tetris. | |
85 | |
86 @item | |
87 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}). | |
88 | |
89 @item | |
90 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler | |
91 for compiled Emacs Lisp code. | |
92 | |
93 @item | |
94 Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a | |
95 new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists. | |
96 | |
97 @item | |
98 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the | |
99 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer. | |
100 | |
101 @item | |
102 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed | |
103 text replace the current selection. | |
104 | |
105 @item | |
106 Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el}, | |
107 | |
108 @item | |
109 Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up | |
110 labels and cross-references for La@TeX{}. | |
111 | |
112 @item | |
113 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining | |
114 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses. | |
115 | |
116 @item | |
117 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4. | |
118 | |
119 @item | |
120 John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files). | |
121 | |
122 @item | |
123 Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}). | |
124 | |
125 @item | |
126 Stephen Eglen implemented @file{mspools.el}, for use with Procmail, | |
127 which tells you which mail folders have mail waiting in them, and | |
128 @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature for incremental reading and completion of | |
129 buffer names. | |
130 | |
131 @item | |
132 @c iftex | |
133 Torbj@"orn | |
134 @c end iftex | |
135 @c ifinfo | |
136 @c Torbjorn | |
137 @c end ifinfo | |
138 Einarsson contributed F90 mode (@file{f90.el}). | |
139 | |
140 @item | |
141 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets. | |
142 | |
143 @item | |
144 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87 | |
145 code. | |
146 | |
147 @item | |
148 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a | |
149 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen. | |
150 | |
151 @item | |
152 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data | |
153 Language source code. | |
154 | |
155 @item | |
156 Frederick Farnback implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to | |
157 morse code. | |
158 | |
159 @item | |
160 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files. | |
161 | |
162 @item | |
163 Karl Fogel wrote: | |
164 @itemize @bullet | |
165 @item | |
166 @file{bookmark.el}, for creating named placeholders, saving them and | |
167 jumping to them later, | |
168 @item | |
169 @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing mail messages, and | |
170 @item | |
171 @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's location in files between | |
172 editing sessions. | |
173 @end itemize | |
174 | |
175 @item | |
176 Gary Foster wrote the emulation for CRiSP: @file{crisp.el} and | |
177 @file{scroll-lock.el}. | |
178 | |
179 @item | |
180 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin, and | |
181 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from | |
182 typing. With Roland McGrath, he wrote @file{rsz-mini.el}, a minor mode | |
183 to automatically resize the minibuffer to fit the text it contains. | |
184 | |
185 @item | |
186 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files. | |
187 | |
188 @item | |
189 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote | |
190 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF | |
191 flow control. | |
192 | |
193 @item | |
194 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT. | |
195 | |
196 @item | |
197 Howard Gayle wrote: | |
198 @itemize @bullet | |
199 @item | |
200 the C and lisp code for display tables and case tables, | |
201 @item | |
202 @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the plaintext form of a buffer | |
203 encoded with the Caesar cipher, | |
204 @item | |
205 much of the support for the ISO-8859 European character set (which | |
206 includes @file{iso-ascii.el}, @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el}, | |
207 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}), and | |
208 @item | |
209 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LED's on | |
210 VT100-compatible terminals. | |
211 @end itemize | |
212 | |
213 @item | |
214 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card. | |
215 | |
216 @item | |
217 David Gillespie wrote: | |
218 @itemize @bullet | |
219 @item | |
220 Emacs 19's Common Lisp compatibility packages, replacing the old package | |
221 by Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez, | |
222 @item | |
223 @file{complete.el}, a partial completion mechanism, and | |
224 @item | |
225 @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing keyboard macros. | |
226 @end itemize | |
227 | |
228 @item | |
229 Bob Glickstein contributed the @file{sregex.el} feature. | |
230 | |
231 @item | |
232 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse | |
233 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a | |
234 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place; | |
235 @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in files; | |
236 and @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces. | |
237 | |
238 @item | |
239 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file, | |
240 taking the file name from the buffer. | |
241 | |
242 @item | |
243 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el}. | |
244 | |
245 @item | |
246 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between | |
247 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@code{ASCII} | |
248 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition. | |
249 | |
250 @item | |
251 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files | |
252 related to the currently visited file. | |
253 | |
254 @item | |
255 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation. | |
256 | |
257 @item | |
258 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international | |
259 character sets. | |
260 | |
261 @item | |
262 Chris Hanson wrote @file{netuname.el}, a package to use HP-UX's Remote | |
263 File Access facility from Emacs. | |
264 | |
265 @item | |
266 K. Shane Hartman wrote: | |
267 @itemize @bullet | |
268 @item | |
269 @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el}, packages for browsing | |
270 command history lists, | |
271 @item | |
272 @file{electric.el} and @file{helper.el}, providing an alternative | |
273 command loop and appropriate help facilities, | |
274 @item | |
275 @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for reporting Emacs bugs, | |
276 @item | |
277 @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing ASCII pictures, and | |
278 @item | |
279 @file{view.el}, a package for perusing files and buffers without editing | |
280 them. | |
281 @end itemize | |
282 | |
283 @item | |
284 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el}, | |
285 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features. | |
286 | |
287 @item | |
288 Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}). | |
289 | |
290 @item | |
291 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the | |
292 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the | |
293 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits. | |
294 | |
295 @item | |
296 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to the MS-DOS operating system. | |
297 | |
298 @item | |
299 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and | |
300 expansion package. | |
301 | |
302 @item | |
303 Kurt Hornik co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files). | |
304 | |
305 @item | |
306 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C++ template | |
307 instantiations. | |
308 | |
309 @item | |
310 Lars Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the GNUS newsreader. | |
311 | |
312 @item | |
313 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the Windows NT support. | |
314 | |
315 @item | |
316 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game, | |
317 and @file{mldrag.el}, a package which allows the user to resize windows | |
318 by dragging mode lines and vertical window separators with the mouse. | |
319 | |
320 @item | |
321 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out | |
322 mail with SMTP. | |
323 | |
324 @item | |
325 David Kaufman wrote @file{yow.c}, an essential utility program for the | |
326 hopelessly pinheaded. | |
327 | |
328 @item | |
329 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining | |
330 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff} | |
331 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert | |
332 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package. | |
333 | |
334 @item | |
335 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs | |
336 buffers. | |
337 | |
338 @item | |
339 Michael Kifer wrote @file{ediff.el}, an interactive interface to the | |
340 @code{diff} and @code{patch} programs, and Viper, the newest emulation | |
341 for VI. | |
342 | |
343 @item | |
344 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and | |
345 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users | |
346 editing the same file. | |
347 @c We're not using his backquote.el any more. | |
348 | |
349 @item | |
350 Larry K. Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail | |
351 directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format. | |
352 | |
353 @item | |
354 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up | |
355 menu support. | |
356 | |
357 @item | |
358 Sebastian Kremer wrote Emacs 19's @code{dired-mode}, with contributions | |
359 by Lawrence R. Dodd. | |
360 | |
361 @item | |
362 Geoff Kuenning wrote Emacs 19's @file{ispell.el}, based on work by Ken | |
363 Stevens and others. | |
364 | |
365 @item | |
366 David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for | |
367 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions. | |
368 | |
369 @item | |
370 Daniel LaLiberte wrote: | |
371 @itemize @bullet | |
372 @item | |
373 @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp, | |
374 @item | |
375 @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug} debug code | |
376 written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support, | |
377 @item | |
378 @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp objects, | |
379 @item | |
380 @file{eval-reg.el}, a re-implementation of @code{eval-region} in Emacs | |
381 Lisp, and | |
382 @item | |
383 @file{isearch.el}, Emacs 19's incremental search minor mode. | |
384 @end itemize | |
385 | |
386 @item | |
387 James R. Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system. | |
388 | |
389 @item | |
390 Frederic Lepied contributed @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev | |
391 mechanism for inserting programming constructs. | |
392 | |
393 @item | |
394 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus | |
395 for buffer selection, and rewrote @file{dabbrev.el}. | |
396 | |
397 @item | |
398 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package and @file{checkdoc.el}. | |
399 | |
400 @item | |
401 Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their | |
402 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files | |
403 generated by Edward M. Reingold's @code{calendar} package. | |
404 | |
405 @item | |
406 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and | |
407 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental | |
408 completion feedback in the minibuffer. | |
409 | |
410 @item | |
411 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code. | |
412 | |
413 @item | |
414 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for | |
415 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses. | |
416 | |
417 @item | |
418 Simon Marshall wrote: | |
419 @itemize @bullet | |
420 @item | |
421 @file{fast-lock.el}, which caches the face data computed by Font Lock mode, | |
422 @item | |
423 @file{lazy-lock.el}, which delays fontification in Font Lock mode | |
424 until text is actually displayed, and | |
425 @item | |
426 @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular expression from a list | |
427 of strings. | |
428 @end itemize | |
429 | |
430 @item | |
431 Bengt Martensson, Mark Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, and Stefan | |
432 Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{} | |
433 bibliography files. | |
434 | |
435 @item | |
436 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic | |
437 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files. | |
438 | |
439 @item | |
440 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional | |
441 blackbox game. | |
442 | |
443 @item | |
444 Roland McGrath wrote: | |
445 @itemize @bullet | |
446 @item | |
447 @file{compile.el}, a package for running compilations in a buffer, and | |
448 then visiting the locations reported in error messages, | |
449 @item | |
450 @file{etags.el}, a package for jumping to function definitions and | |
451 searching or replacing in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file, | |
452 @item | |
453 @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output from the | |
454 @code{find} program, with Sebastian Kremer, | |
455 @item | |
456 @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker, | |
457 @item | |
458 @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload | |
459 files, and | |
460 @item | |
461 @file{upd-copyr.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of copyright | |
462 notices in source code. | |
463 @end itemize | |
464 | |
465 @item | |
466 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new | |
467 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major | |
468 modes. | |
469 | |
470 @item | |
471 Wayne Mesard wrote @file{hscroll.el} which does horizontal scrolling | |
472 automatically. | |
473 | |
474 @item | |
475 Richard Mlynarik wrote: | |
476 @itemize @bullet | |
477 @item | |
478 @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting Common Lisp code, | |
479 @item | |
480 @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for buffer listings, | |
481 @item | |
482 @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens, | |
483 @item | |
484 @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format, | |
485 used in mail messages and news articles, | |
486 @item | |
487 @file{terminal.el}, a terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses, and | |
488 @item | |
489 @file{yow.el}, an essential utility (try @kbd{M-x yow}). | |
490 @end itemize | |
491 | |
492 @item | |
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493 Gerd Moellmann wrote the new display engine for Emacs 21, the |
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494 @code{ebrowse} C@t{++} browser, and @file{jit-lock.el}, |
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495 @file{tooltip.el}, and @file{authors.el} packages. |
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497 @item |
25829 | 498 Keith Moore wrote @file{aixcc.lex}, a pre-processor designed to help |
499 Emacs parse the error messages produced by the AIX C compiler. | |
500 | |
501 @item | |
502 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions, and has tested the | |
503 latest source code daily. | |
504 | |
505 @item | |
506 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{makefile.el}, a mode for | |
507 editing makefiles. | |
508 | |
509 @item | |
510 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation. | |
511 | |
512 @item | |
513 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit | |
514 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer. | |
515 | |
516 @item | |
517 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP support. | |
518 | |
519 @item | |
520 Jeff Peck wrote: | |
521 @itemize @bullet | |
522 @item | |
523 @file{emacstool.c}, support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun Windows, | |
524 @item | |
525 @file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and | |
526 @item | |
527 @file{sun-fns.el}, providing mouse support for Sun Windows. | |
528 @end itemize | |
529 | |
530 @item | |
531 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of | |
532 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle. | |
533 | |
534 @item | |
535 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find | |
536 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable. | |
537 | |
538 @item | |
539 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote: | |
540 @itemize @bullet | |
541 @item | |
542 @file{executable.el} | |
543 @item | |
544 @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing shell scripts, | |
545 @item | |
546 @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for writing | |
547 statement skeletons, and | |
548 @item | |
549 @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode for simultaneous two-column editing. | |
550 @end itemize | |
551 | |
552 @item | |
553 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit | |
554 widgets. | |
555 | |
556 @item | |
557 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the | |
558 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation. | |
559 | |
560 @item | |
561 Francesco A. Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which | |
562 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results. | |
563 | |
564 @item | |
565 Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode for | |
566 editing FORTRAN code. | |
567 @c We're not distributing his tex-mode.el anymore; we're using Ed Reingold's. | |
568 | |
569 @item | |
570 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in | |
571 bibliography files by keyword. | |
572 | |
573 @item | |
574 Eric S. Raymond wrote: | |
575 @itemize @bullet | |
576 @item | |
577 @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS source code version | |
578 control systems, with Paul Eggert, | |
579 @item | |
580 @file{gud.el}, a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB | |
581 and SDB in Emacs, | |
582 @item | |
583 @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code, | |
584 @item | |
585 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like | |
586 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}, | |
587 @item | |
588 @file{finder.el}, a package for finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword | |
589 and topic, | |
590 @item | |
591 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers used | |
592 in Emacs Lisp library files, and | |
593 @item | |
594 code to set and make use of the @code{load-history} lisp variable, which | |
595 records the source file from which each lisp function loaded into Emacs | |
596 came. | |
597 @end itemize | |
598 | |
599 @item | |
600 Edward M. Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support (try | |
601 @kbd{M-x calendar}), with contributions from Stewart Clamen, Paul | |
602 Eggert, and Lara Rios. Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. | |
603 Reingold has also contributed to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing | |
604 @TeX{} files, as have William F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, | |
605 Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore. | |
606 | |
607 @item | |
608 Rob Riepel contributed @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, | |
609 providing an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT | |
610 editor, and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for | |
611 the DEC VT line of terminals. | |
612 | |
613 @item | |
614 Roland B. Roberts contributed much of the VMS support distributed with | |
615 Emacs 19, along with Joseph M. Kelsey, and @file{vms-pmail.el}, support | |
616 for using Emacs within VMS MAIL. | |
617 | |
618 @item | |
619 John Robinson wrote @file{bg-mouse.el}, support for the mouse on the BBN | |
620 Bitgraph terminal. | |
621 | |
622 @item | |
623 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text | |
624 into ``handwriting.'' | |
625 | |
626 @item | |
627 William Rosenblatt wrote @file{float.el}, implementing a floating-point | |
628 numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers. | |
629 | |
630 @item | |
631 Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme | |
632 code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer. | |
633 | |
634 @item | |
635 Ivar Rummelhoff provided @file{winner.el}, which records | |
636 recent window configurations so you can move back to them. | |
637 | |
638 @item | |
639 Wolfgang Rupprecht contributed Emacs 19's floating-point support | |
640 (including @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and | |
641 @file{sup-mouse.el}, support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines. | |
642 | |
643 @item | |
644 James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing | |
645 dynamic word completion. | |
646 | |
647 @item | |
648 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor. | |
649 | |
650 @item | |
651 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet} | |
652 sessions within Emacs. | |
653 | |
654 @item | |
655 Ralph Schleicher contributed @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying | |
656 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for | |
657 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer. | |
658 | |
659 @item | |
660 Gregor Schmid wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing Tcl/Tk scripts. | |
661 | |
662 @item | |
663 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for | |
664 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson. | |
665 | |
666 @item | |
667 Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game. | |
668 | |
669 @item | |
670 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played | |
671 against Emacs, and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle. | |
672 | |
673 @item | |
674 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects. | |
675 | |
676 @item | |
677 Manuel Serrano contributed the Flyspell package that does spell checking | |
678 as you type. | |
679 | |
680 @item | |
681 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited | |
682 commercial email. | |
683 | |
684 @item | |
685 Richard Sharman contributed @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors | |
686 to inclidate recent editing changes. | |
687 | |
688 @item | |
689 Olin Shivers wrote: | |
690 @itemize @bullet | |
691 @item | |
692 @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running interactive command-line- | |
693 oriented subprocesses, | |
694 @item | |
695 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes, | |
696 @item | |
697 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process, and | |
698 @item | |
699 @file{shell.el}, for running inferior shells. | |
700 @end itemize | |
701 | |
702 @item | |
703 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code. | |
704 | |
705 @item | |
706 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating | |
707 mostly-constant data. | |
708 | |
709 @item | |
710 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive | |
711 help for key bindings. | |
712 | |
713 @item | |
714 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code. | |
715 | |
716 @item | |
717 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs | |
718 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess. | |
719 | |
720 @item | |
721 Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}. | |
722 | |
723 @item | |
724 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe | |
725 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files | |
726 to an extant Emacs job to be edited. | |
727 | |
728 @item | |
729 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for | |
730 selecting regions to follow many other systems. | |
731 | |
732 @item | |
733 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for | |
734 browsing indices made from buffer contents. | |
735 | |
736 @item | |
737 Peter Stephenson contributed @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a | |
738 ``virtual cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for | |
739 copying text. | |
740 | |
741 @item | |
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744 @item | |
745 Jonathan Stigelman wrote @file{hilit19.el}, a package providing | |
746 automatic highlighting in source code buffers, mail readers, and other | |
747 contexts. | |
748 | |
749 @item | |
750 Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he | |
751 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. | |
752 | |
753 @item | |
754 Jens T. Berger Thielemann wrote @file{word-help.el}, which is | |
755 part of the basis for @file{info-look.el}. | |
756 | |
757 @item | |
758 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command | |
759 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby | |
760 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping | |
761 support. | |
762 | |
763 @item | |
764 Jim Thompson wrote @file{ps-print.el}, which converts | |
765 Emacs text to Postscript. | |
766 | |
767 @item | |
768 Masanobu Umeda wrote: | |
769 @itemize @bullet | |
770 @item | |
771 GNUS, a featureful reader for Usenet news, | |
772 @item | |
773 @file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code, | |
774 @item | |
775 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders, | |
776 @item | |
777 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program, | |
778 @item | |
779 @file{tcp.el}, emulation of the @code{open-network-stream} function for | |
780 some Emacs configurations which lack it, and | |
781 @item | |
782 @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones. | |
783 @end itemize | |
784 | |
785 @item | |
786 Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package. | |
787 | |
788 @item | |
789 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code. | |
790 | |
791 @item | |
792 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. | |
793 | |
794 @item | |
795 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, defining a | |
796 mode for filling in forms, and @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode providing | |
797 electric accent keys for text using the ISO-8859 character set. | |
798 | |
799 @item | |
800 Barry Warsaw wrote: | |
801 @itemize @bullet | |
802 @item | |
803 @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for working with association | |
804 lists, | |
805 @item | |
806 @file{cc-mode.el}, a major mode for editing C and C++ code, based on | |
807 earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman, | |
808 @item | |
809 @file{elp.el}, a new profiler for Emacs Lisp programs. | |
810 @item | |
811 @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual pages, | |
812 @item | |
813 @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like control structure for | |
814 use in lisp programs, and | |
815 @item | |
816 @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for lisp | |
817 packages. | |
818 @item | |
819 @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting sections of mail messages | |
820 and news articles, | |
821 @end itemize | |
822 | |
823 @item | |
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827 @item | |
828 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between | |
829 sessions, | |
830 @item | |
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831 @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a given time or |
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834 @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support, |
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839 and motion commands, and | |
840 @item | |
841 @file{dos-fns.el}, functions for use under MS-DOS. | |
842 @end itemize | |
843 | |
844 He also helped port Emacs to MS-DOS. | |
845 | |
846 @item | |
847 Joseph Brian Wells wrote: | |
848 @itemize @bullet | |
849 @item | |
850 @file{apropos.el}, a command to find commands, functions, and variables | |
851 whose names contain matches for a regular expression, | |
852 @item | |
853 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after | |
854 resuming a suspended Emacs job, and | |
855 @item | |
856 @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for extracting names and addresses from | |
857 mail headers, with contributions from Jamie Zawinski. | |
858 @end itemize | |
859 | |
860 @item | |
861 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}. | |
862 | |
863 @item | |
864 Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from | |
865 RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format. | |
866 | |
867 @item | |
868 Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse | |
869 selection, and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding | |
870 the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point. | |
871 | |
872 @item | |
873 Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively | |
874 merging two versions of a file. | |
875 | |
876 @item | |
877 Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder | |
878 to exit with valuable buffers unsaved. | |
879 | |
880 @item | |
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884 @file{codepage.el}, a package for editing text encoded in DOS/Windows |
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887 @item | |
888 Jamie Zawinski wrote: | |
889 @itemize @bullet | |
890 @item | |
891 Emacs 19's optimizing byte compiler, with Hallvard Furuseth, | |
892 @item | |
893 much of the support for faces and X selections, | |
894 @item | |
895 @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package providing automatic expansion of mail | |
896 aliases, and | |
897 @item | |
898 @file{tar-mode.el}, providing simple viewing and editing commands for | |
899 tar files. | |
900 @end itemize | |
901 | |
902 @item | |
903 Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}. | |
904 | |
905 @item | |
906 Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the | |
907 VI text editor. | |
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909 @item | |
910 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning | |
911 text according to regular-expression based rules. | |
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914 INOUE Seiichiro improved Emacs' XIM support. Thanks to HORIKAWA Hisashi | |
915 for suggestions. | |
916 @end itemize | |
917 | |
25829 | 918 Others too numerous to mention have reported and fixed bugs, and added |
919 features to many parts of Emacs. We thank them for their generosity as | |
920 well. | |
921 | |
922 This list intended to mention every contributor of a major package or | |
923 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted, | |
924 please report that as a manual bug. |