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--- a/man/ack.texi	Sat Mar 19 14:45:20 2005 +0000
+++ b/man/ack.texi	Sat Mar 19 15:07:04 2005 +0000
@@ -38,9 +38,10 @@
 implemented support for X11.

 @item
-Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
-files; and @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode whereby the default
-value is shown in the minibuffer prompt only when appropriate.
+Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting
+image files, @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode whereby the default
+value is shown in the minibuffer prompt only when appropriate, and
+@file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons.

 @item
 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
@@ -187,8 +188,12 @@
 Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el},

 @item
+Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
+
+@item
 Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up
-labels and cross-references in La@TeX{} documents.
+labels and cross-references in La@TeX{} documents, and @file{org.el},
+a mode for maintaining notes, todo lists, and project planning.

 @item
 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
@@ -284,6 +289,10 @@
 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.

 @item
+Juan Le@'{o}n Lahoz Garc@'{i}a wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
+performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
+
+@item
 Howard Gayle wrote:

 @itemize @minus
@@ -319,8 +328,9 @@

 @itemize @minus
 @item
-Emacs 19's Common Lisp compatibility packages, replacing the old package
-by Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez,
+The Common Lisp compatibility packages,
+@item
+@code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool,
 @item
 @file{complete.el}, a partial completion mechanism, and
 @item
@@ -358,6 +368,10 @@
 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.

 @item
+Kai Gro@ss{}johann wrote the Tramp package, which provides transparent
+remote file editing using rcp, ssh, and other network protocols.
+
+@item
 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition, and @file{latin-2.el}, code
@@ -449,6 +463,10 @@
 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.

 @item
+Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
+diary entries to and from the iCalendar format.
+
+@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.
@@ -458,11 +476,23 @@
 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.

 @item
-Simon Josefsson wrote @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting
-RFC2646 formatted text in messages, @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp
-library for talking to IMAP servers, @file{nnimap}, the IMAP back-end
-for Gnus, @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility,
-and @file{fringe.el} a package for customizing the fringe.
+Simon Josefsson wrote:
+
+@itemize @minus
+@item
+@file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain Name System master files,
+@item
+@file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
+in messages,
+@item
+@file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe,
+@item
+@file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers,
+@item
+@file{nnimap}, the IMAP back-end for Gnus, and
+@item
+@file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility.
+@end itemize

 @item
 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
@@ -479,6 +509,10 @@
 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.

 @item
+Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
+languages.
+
+@item
 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
 buffers.

@@ -501,6 +535,10 @@
 within Emacs.

 @item
+Pavel Kobiakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
+on-the-fly syntax checking.
+
+@item
 Larry K.@: Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail
 directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format.

@@ -509,6 +547,10 @@
 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.

 @item
+Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iinline.el}, a minor mode for displaying
+inline images.
+
+@item
 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
 menu support.

@@ -548,7 +590,7 @@
 James R.@: Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system.

 @item
-Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:
+Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as:

 @itemize @minus
 @item
@@ -581,7 +623,14 @@
 that show the same buffer.

 @item
-Dave Love wrote:
+Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
+files.
+
+@item
+Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
+Latin-N unification.  He added support for many coding systems,
+including those in @file{code-pages.el} and the various UTF-7 and
+UTF-16 coding systems.  He also wrote:

 @itemize @minus
 @item
@@ -592,6 +641,8 @@
 @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing Autoconf @file{configure.in}
 files,
 @item
+@file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files,
+@item
 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text, such as
 copyright notices, from file headers,
 @item
@@ -606,6 +657,8 @@
 characters on Latin-1 terminals by setting up appropriate display
 tables,
 @item
+@file{python.el}, a major mode for the Python programming language.
+@item
 @file{refill.el}, a mode for automatic paragraph refilling, akin to
 typical word processors,
 @item
@@ -731,7 +784,8 @@
 @end itemize

 @item
-Gerd Moellmann wrote:
+Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
+development until the release of 21.1.  He wrote:

 @itemize @minus
 @item
@@ -748,17 +802,19 @@
 @file{authors.el} package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} files.
 @end itemize

-Gerd took over the Emacs maintenance as the head maintainer since the
-beginning of Emacs 21 development.
-
 @item
-Stefan Monnier wrote:
+Stefan Monnier added support for Arch, Subversion, and Meta-CVS to VC,
+and re-wrote much of the Emacs server to use the built-in networking
+primitives.  He also wrote:

 @itemize @minus
 @item
 @code{PCL-CVS}, a directory-level front end to the CVS version control
 system,
 @item
+@file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
+text,
+@item
 @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
 conflicts, and
 @item
@@ -811,6 +867,14 @@
 splitting mechanism.

 @item
+Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
+embedded text-based tables.
+
+@item
+Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
+the MIX assembly language.
+
+@item
 David Pearson contributed @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of
 inserting a URL into the current buffer based on text at point;
 @file{5x5.el}, a game to fill all squares on the field.
@@ -836,8 +900,8 @@

 @item
 William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el}, a MIME media types
-configuration facility, and @file{mwheel.el}, support for MS
-Intellimouse type mice with wheels.
+configuration facility, @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting
+mouse wheels, and the URL package.

 @item
 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
@@ -851,6 +915,8 @@

 @itemize @minus
 @item
+@file{conf-mode.el}, a major mode for editing configuration files,
+@item
 @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating copyright notices in files,
 @item
 @file{executable.el}, a package for executing interpreter scripts,
@@ -881,7 +947,9 @@

 @item
 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
-recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar.
+recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar, and
+@file{ruler-mode.el}, a minor mode for displaying a ruler in the
+header line.

 @item
 Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
@@ -957,6 +1025,10 @@
 the DEC VT line of terminals.

 @item
+Nick Roberts wrote @file{gdb-ui.el}, the graphical user interface to
+GDB.
+
+@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.
@@ -991,6 +1063,10 @@
 @file{sup-mouse.el}, support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.

 @item
+Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
+references in Info files.
+
+@item
 James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
 dynamic word completion.

@@ -1141,6 +1217,22 @@
 contexts.

 @item
+Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
+process support, and networking support. He also wrote:
+
+@itemize @minus
+@item
+@file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data.
+@item
+@file{cua.el}, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
+bindings.
+@item
+@file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files quickly.
+@item
+@file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
+@end itemize
+
+@item
 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.

@@ -1161,8 +1253,8 @@
 decoding UTF-8 data.

 @item
-Taichi Kawabata wrote support for Devanagari script and the Indian
-languages.
+Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
+image files as ``thumbnails''.

 @item
 Jens T.@: Berger Thielemann wrote @file{word-help.el}, which is
@@ -1237,6 +1329,10 @@
 electric accent keys for text using the ISO-8859 character set.

 @item
+Colin Walters wrote @file{ibuffer.el}, a Dired-like major mode for
+operating on buffers.
+
+@item
 Barry Warsaw wrote:

 @itemize @minus
@@ -1340,6 +1436,15 @@
 to exit with valuable buffers unsaved.

 @item
+Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
+linker scripts.
+
+@item
+Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
+of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code, and the SES spreadsheet
+package.
+
+@item
 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson contributed @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
 mode for editing Perl code.  Ilya Zakharevich also wrote @file{tmm.el},
 a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode terminal.