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