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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/man/ack.texi Wed Sep 29 15:17:24 1999 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,902 @@ +@c This is part of the Emacs manual. +@c Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. +@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top +@chapter Acknowledgments + +Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software +Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for +their public spirit, we list here those who have written substantial +portions. + +@itemize @bullet +@item +Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well as +@file{double.el} for typing accented characters not normally available +from the keyboard, @file{xt-mouse.el} which handles mouse commands +through Xterm, and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of C +programs according to preprocessor conditionals. + +@item +Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic +decompression and recompression for compressed files. + +@item +Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and +implemented support for X11. + +@item +Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote @file{profile.el}, to time Emacs Lisp functions. + +@item +Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and +build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the +frame support and multi-face support. + +@item +Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot +that learns landmarks. + +@item +Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff} +output. + +@item +Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack} which does better tracking of +directory changes in shell buffers, @file{filecache.el} which records +which directories your files are in, @file{locate.el} which interfaces +to the @code{locate} command, @file{net-utils.el}, and the ``generic +mode'' feature. + +@item +Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to +Emacs's outline modes. + +@item +Vincent Broman wrote @file{ada.el}, a mode for editing Ada code +(since replaced by @file{ada-mode.el}). + +@item +David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other +tabular data. + +@item +Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}. + +@item +Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for +Emacs Lisp functions, and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs +Lisp. + +@item +Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el} and @file{makeinfo.el}, modes +and utilities for working with Texinfo files. + +@item +James Clark wrote @file{sgml-mode.el}, a mode for editing SGML +documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures. + +@item +Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor. + +@item +Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that +use it, Snake and Tetris. + +@item +Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}). + +@item +Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler +for compiled Emacs Lisp code. + +@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 +Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el}, + +@item +Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up +labels and cross-references for La@TeX{}. + +@item +Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining +transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses. + +@item +Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4. + +@item +John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files). + +@item +Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}). + +@item +Stephen Eglen implemented @file{mspools.el}, for use with Procmail, +which tells you which mail folders have mail waiting in them, and +@file{iswitchb.el}, a feature for incremental reading and completion of +buffer names. + +@item +@c iftex +Torbj@"orn +@c end iftex +@c ifinfo +@c Torbjorn +@c end ifinfo +Einarsson contributed F90 mode (@file{f90.el}). + +@item +Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets. + +@item +Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87 +code. + +@item +Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a +function's source code and preceding comment on the screen. + +@item +Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data +Language source code. + +@item +Frederick Farnback implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to +morse code. + +@item +Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files. + +@item +Karl Fogel wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{bookmark.el}, for creating named placeholders, saving them and +jumping to them later, +@item +@file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing mail messages, and +@item +@file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's location in files between +editing sessions. +@end itemize + +@item +Gary Foster wrote the emulation for CRiSP: @file{crisp.el} and +@file{scroll-lock.el}. + +@item +Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin, and +@file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from +typing. With Roland McGrath, he wrote @file{rsz-mini.el}, a minor mode +to automatically resize the minibuffer to fit the text it contains. + +@item +Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files. + +@item +Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote +@file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF +flow control. + +@item +Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT. + +@item +Howard Gayle wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +the C and lisp code for display tables and case tables, +@item +@file{rot13.el}, a command to display the plaintext form of a buffer +encoded with the Caesar cipher, +@item +much of the support for the ISO-8859 European character set (which +includes @file{iso-ascii.el}, @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el}, +@file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}), and +@item +@file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LED's on +VT100-compatible terminals. +@end itemize + +@item +Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card. + +@item +David Gillespie wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +Emacs 19's Common Lisp compatibility packages, replacing the old package +by Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez, +@item +@file{complete.el}, a partial completion mechanism, and +@item +@file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing keyboard macros. +@end itemize + +@item +Bob Glickstein contributed the @file{sregex.el} feature. + +@item +Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse +cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a +package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place; +@file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in files; +and @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces. + +@item +Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file, +taking the file name from the buffer. + +@item +Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el}. + +@item +Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between +the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@code{ASCII} +characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition. + +@item +Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files +related to the currently visited file. + +@item +Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation. + +@item +Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international +character sets. + +@item +Chris Hanson wrote @file{netuname.el}, a package to use HP-UX's Remote +File Access facility from Emacs. + +@item +K. Shane Hartman wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el}, packages for browsing +command history lists, +@item +@file{electric.el} and @file{helper.el}, providing an alternative +command loop and appropriate help facilities, +@item +@file{emacsbug.el}, a package for reporting Emacs bugs, +@item +@file{picture.el}, a mode for editing ASCII pictures, and +@item +@file{view.el}, a package for perusing files and buffers without editing +them. +@end itemize + +@item +John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el}, +which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features. + +@item +Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}). + +@item +Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the +@code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the +@code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits. + +@item +Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to the MS-DOS operating system. + +@item +Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and +expansion package. + +@item +Kurt Hornik co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files). + +@item +Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C++ template +instantiations. + +@item +Lars Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the GNUS newsreader. + +@item +Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the Windows NT support. + +@item +Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game, +and @file{mldrag.el}, a package which allows the user to resize windows +by dragging mode lines and vertical window separators with the mouse. + +@item +Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out +mail with SMTP. + +@item +David Kaufman wrote @file{yow.c}, an essential utility program for the +hopelessly pinheaded. + +@item +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. + +@item +Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs +buffers. + +@item +Michael Kifer wrote @file{ediff.el}, an interactive interface to the +@code{diff} and @code{patch} programs, and Viper, the newest emulation +for VI. + +@item +Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and +@file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users +editing the same file. +@c We're not using his backquote.el any more. + +@item +Larry K. Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail +directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format. + +@item +Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up +menu support. + +@item +Sebastian Kremer wrote Emacs 19's @code{dired-mode}, with contributions +by Lawrence R. Dodd. + +@item +Geoff Kuenning wrote Emacs 19's @file{ispell.el}, based on work by Ken +Stevens and others. + +@item +David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for +easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions. + +@item +Daniel LaLiberte wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp, +@item +@file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug} debug code +written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support, +@item +@file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp objects, +@item +@file{eval-reg.el}, a re-implementation of @code{eval-region} in Emacs +Lisp, and +@item +@file{isearch.el}, Emacs 19's incremental search minor mode. +@end itemize + +@item +James R. Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system. + +@item +Frederic Lepied contributed @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev +mechanism for inserting programming constructs. + +@item +Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus +for buffer selection, and rewrote @file{dabbrev.el}. + +@item +Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package and @file{checkdoc.el}. + +@item +Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their +appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files +generated by Edward M. Reingold's @code{calendar} package. + +@item +Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and +formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental +completion feedback in the minibuffer. + +@item +Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code. + +@item +Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for +hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses. + +@item +Simon Marshall wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{fast-lock.el}, which caches the face data computed by Font Lock mode, +@item +@file{lazy-lock.el}, which delays fontification in Font Lock mode +until text is actually displayed, and +@item +@file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular expression from a list +of strings. +@end itemize + +@item +Bengt Martensson, Mark Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, and Stefan +Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{} +bibliography files. + +@item +Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic +mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files. + +@item +Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional +blackbox game. + +@item +Roland McGrath wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{compile.el}, a package for running compilations in a buffer, and +then visiting the locations reported in error messages, +@item +@file{etags.el}, a package for jumping to function definitions and +searching or replacing in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file, +@item +@file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output from the +@code{find} program, with Sebastian Kremer, +@item +@file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker, +@item +@file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload +files, and +@item +@file{upd-copyr.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of copyright +notices in source code. +@end itemize + +@item +David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new +major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major +modes. + +@item +Wayne Mesard wrote @file{hscroll.el} which does horizontal scrolling +automatically. + +@item +Richard Mlynarik wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting Common Lisp code, +@item +@file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for buffer listings, +@item +@file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens, +@item +@file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format, +used in mail messages and news articles, +@item +@file{terminal.el}, a terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses, and +@item +@file{yow.el}, an essential utility (try @kbd{M-x yow}). +@end itemize + +@item +Keith Moore wrote @file{aixcc.lex}, a pre-processor designed to help +Emacs parse the error messages produced by the AIX C compiler. + +@item +Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions, and has tested the +latest source code daily. + +@item +Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{makefile.el}, a mode for +editing makefiles. + +@item +Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation. + +@item +Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit +dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer. + +@item +Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP support. + +@item +Jeff Peck wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{emacstool.c}, support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun Windows, +@item +@file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and +@item +@file{sun-fns.el}, providing mouse support for Sun Windows. +@end itemize + +@item +Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of +the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle. + +@item +Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find +the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable. + +@item +Daniel Pfeiffer wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{executable.el} +@item +@file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing shell scripts, +@item +@file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for writing +statement skeletons, and +@item +@file{two-column.el}, a minor mode for simultaneous two-column editing. +@end itemize + +@item +Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit +widgets. + +@item +Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the +Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation. + +@item +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. + +@item +Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode for +editing FORTRAN code. +@c We're not distributing his tex-mode.el anymore; we're using Ed Reingold's. + +@item +Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in +bibliography files by keyword. + +@item +Eric S. Raymond wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS source code version +control systems, with Paul Eggert, +@item +@file{gud.el}, a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB +and SDB in Emacs, +@item +@file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code, +@item +@file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like +@file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}, +@item +@file{finder.el}, a package for finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword +and topic, +@item +@file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers used +in Emacs Lisp library files, and +@item +code to set and make use of the @code{load-history} lisp variable, which +records the source file from which each lisp function loaded into Emacs +came. +@end itemize + +@item +Edward M. Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support (try +@kbd{M-x calendar}), with contributions from Stewart Clamen, Paul +Eggert, and Lara Rios. Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. +Reingold has also contributed to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing +@TeX{} files, as have William F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, +Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore. + +@item +Rob Riepel contributed @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, +providing an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT +editor, and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for +the DEC VT line of terminals. + +@item +Roland B. Roberts contributed much of the VMS support distributed with +Emacs 19, along with Joseph M. Kelsey, and @file{vms-pmail.el}, support +for using Emacs within VMS MAIL. + +@item +John Robinson wrote @file{bg-mouse.el}, support for the mouse on the BBN +Bitgraph terminal. + +@item +Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text +into ``handwriting.'' + +@item +William Rosenblatt wrote @file{float.el}, implementing a floating-point +numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers. + +@item +Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme +code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer. + +@item +Ivar Rummelhoff provided @file{winner.el}, which records +recent window configurations so you can move back to them. + +@item +Wolfgang Rupprecht contributed Emacs 19's floating-point support +(including @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and +@file{sup-mouse.el}, support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines. + +@item +James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing +dynamic word completion. + +@item +Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor. + +@item +William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet} +sessions within Emacs. + +@item +Ralph Schleicher contributed @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying +laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for +looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer. + +@item +Gregor Schmid wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing Tcl/Tk scripts. + +@item +Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for +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. + +@item +Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played +against Emacs, and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle. + +@item +Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects. + +@item +Manuel Serrano contributed the Flyspell package that does spell checking +as you type. + +@item +Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited +commercial email. + +@item +Richard Sharman contributed @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors +to inclidate recent editing changes. + +@item +Olin Shivers wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{comint.el}, a library for modes running interactive command-line- +oriented subprocesses, +@item +@file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes, +@item +@file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process, and +@item +@file{shell.el}, for running inferior shells. +@end itemize + +@item +Sam Shteingold wrote @file{gulp.el}. + +@item +Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code. + +@item +Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating +mostly-constant data. + +@item +Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive +help for key bindings. + +@item +Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code. + +@item +David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs +Lisp interpreter as a subprocess. + +@item +Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}. + +@item +William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe +files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files +to an extant Emacs job to be edited. + +@item +Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for +selecting regions to follow many other systems. + +@item +Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for +browsing indices made from buffer contents. + +@item +Peter Stephenson contributed @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a +``virtual cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for +copying text. + +@item +Sam Steingold wrote @file{midnight.el}. + +@item +Jonathan Stigelman wrote @file{hilit19.el}, a package providing +automatic highlighting in source code buffers, mail readers, and other +contexts. + +@item +Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he +really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. + +@item +Jens T. Berger Thielemann wrote @file{word-help.el}, which is +part of the basis for @file{info-look.el}. + +@item +Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command +which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby +words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping +support. + +@item +Jim Thompson wrote @file{ps-print.el}, which converts +Emacs text to Postscript. + +@item +Masanobu Umeda wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +GNUS, a featureful reader for Usenet news, +@item +@file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code, +@item +@file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders, +@item +@file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program, +@item +@file{tcp.el}, emulation of the @code{open-network-stream} function for +some Emacs configurations which lack it, and +@item +@file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones. +@end itemize + +@item +Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package. + +@item +Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code. + +@item +Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. + +@item +Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, defining a +mode for filling in forms, and @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode providing +electric accent keys for text using the ISO-8859 character set. + +@item +Barry Warsaw wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for working with association +lists, +@item +@file{cc-mode.el}, a major mode for editing C and C++ code, based on +earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman, +@item +@file{elp.el}, a new profiler for Emacs Lisp programs. +@item +@file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual pages, +@item +@file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like control structure for +use in lisp programs, and +@item +@file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for lisp +packages. +@item +@file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting sections of mail messages +and news articles, +@end itemize + +@item +Morten Welinder wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between +sessions, +@item +@file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using the shift key +and motion commands, and +@item +@file{dos-fns.el}, functions for use under MS-DOS. +@end itemize + +He also helped port Emacs to MS-DOS. + +@item +Joseph Brian Wells wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +@file{apropos.el}, a command to find commands, functions, and variables +whose names contain matches for a regular expression, +@item +@file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after +resuming a suspended Emacs job, and +@item +@file{mail-extr.el}, a package for extracting names and addresses from +mail headers, with contributions from Jamie Zawinski. +@end itemize + +@item +Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}. + +@item +Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from +RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format. + +@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. + +@item +Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively +merging two versions of a file. + +@item +Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder +to exit with valuable buffers unsaved. + +@item +Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS. + +@item +Jamie Zawinski wrote: +@itemize @bullet +@item +Emacs 19's optimizing byte compiler, with Hallvard Furuseth, +@item +much of the support for faces and X selections, +@item +@file{mailabbrev.el}, a package providing automatic expansion of mail +aliases, and +@item +@file{tar-mode.el}, providing simple viewing and editing commands for +tar files. +@end itemize + +@item +Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}. + +@item +Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the +VI text editor. +@end itemize + +Others too numerous to mention have reported and fixed bugs, and added +features to many parts of Emacs. We thank them for their generosity as +well. + +This list intended to mention every contributor of a major package or +feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted, +please report that as a manual bug.