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2 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
3 @c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 @node Acknowledgments
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
8
9 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
11 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
12 written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have
13 reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
14 We thank them for their generosity as well.
15
16 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
17 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
18 please make a bug report. More comprehensive information is
19 available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
20 @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
21
22 @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
23 @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
24 @c that many users would notice and consider important.
25 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
26 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
27 @c emacs.texi is used.
28
29 @itemize @bullet
30 @item
31 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
32 @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
33 from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
34 through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
35 commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
36 news articles; @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
37 which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
38 conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
39 @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
40 @file{gnus-soup.el}.
41
42 @item
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
45
46 @item
47 Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
48 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
49 files.
50
51 @item
52 Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
53 D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
54 Avahi services; @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
55 storing confidential data; and @file{filenotify.el} and the associated
56 low-level interface routines, for watching file status changes.
57 He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which provides
58 transparent remote file editing using ssh, ftp, and other network
59 protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote @file{tramp-cache.el}.
60
61 @item
62 Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
63 point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
64 in the buffer.
65
66 @item
67 Aurélien Aptel added dynamic module support to Emacs. Philipp
68 Stephani and others also worked on the dynamic module code.
69
70 @item
71 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
72 implemented support for X11.
73
74 @item
75 Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
76 a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
77
78 @item
79 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
80 files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
81 default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
82 @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
83 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
84 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
85 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. He
86 also worked on an early version of the lexical binding code.
87
88 @item
89 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
90 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
91
92 @item
93 Juanma Barranquero wrote @file{emacs-lock.el} (based on the original
94 version by Tom Wurgler), which makes it harder to exit with valuable
95 buffers unsaved; and @file{frameset.el}, for saving and restoring the
96 frame/window setup. He also made many other contributions to other
97 areas, including MS Windows support.
98
99 @item
100 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
101 Emacs.
102
103 @item
104 Steven L. Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
105 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
106 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
107 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
108
109 @item
110 Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
111 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
112 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schäfer,
113 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
114 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
115 ERC distribution).
116
117 @item
118 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
119 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
120 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
121
122 @item
123 Stephen Berman wrote @file{todo-mode.el} (based on the original version
124 by Oliver Seidel), a package for maintaining @file{TODO} list files.
125
126 @item
127 Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
128
129 @item
130 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{opascal.el}, a mode for editing
131 Object Pascal source code.
132
133 @item
134 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
135 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
136
137 @item
138 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
139 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
140 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
141 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
142 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.).
143
144 @item
145 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
146 buffer.
147
148 @item
149 Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
150 that learns landmarks.
151
152 @item
153 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
154 output.
155
156 @item
157 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
158 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
159 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
160 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
161 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
162 the generic mode feature.
163
164 @item
165 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
166 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
167 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
168
169 @item
170 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
171 Emacs's outline modes.
172
173 @item
174 David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
175 tabular data.
176
177 @item
178 Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
179 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
180
181 @item
182 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
183 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
184
185 @item
186 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
187 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
188 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
189
190 @item
191 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
192 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
193 Lisp.
194
195 @item
196 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J. D. Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
197 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
198
199 @item
200 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
201 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
202 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. He also
203 wrote the Emacs Lisp introduction. @xref{Top,,,eintr, Introduction to
204 Programming in Emacs Lisp}.
205
206 @item
207 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
208 for Korean Hanja.
209
210 @item
211 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
212 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS@. Yamamoto Mitsuharu continued to
213 contribute to Mac OS support in the newer Nextstep port; and also
214 improved support for multi-monitor displays.
215
216 @item
217 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3. He made many
218 improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
219 @file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
220 and improved support for themes and packages.
221
222 @item
223 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
224 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
225 Emacs's dumping procedures.
226
227 @item
228 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
229
230 @item
231 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
232 use it, Snake and Tetris.
233
234 @item
235 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
236 it is analyzed for spam.
237
238 @item
239 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
240 generating JSON files.
241
242 @item
243 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
244 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
245
246 @item
247 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
248
249 @item
250 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
251 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
252
253 @item
254 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
255 files as thumbnails.
256
257 @item
258 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of desktop notifications
259 (@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
260 and @file{color.el}, a library for general color manipulation.
261 He also made various contributions to Gnus.
262
263 @item
264 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
265 source tree to HTML.
266
267 @item
268 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
269 text replace the current selection.
270
271 @item
272 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
273
274 @item
275 Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
276 He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
277
278 @item
279 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
280 cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
281 (q.v.). He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
282 todo lists, and project planning. Bastien Guerry subsequently took
283 over maintainership. Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
284 Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S. Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
285 Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
286 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
287 Piotr Zieliński, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
288 For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
289
290 @item
291 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
292 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
293
294 @item
295 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
296 pong game.
297
298 @item
299 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
300
301 @item
302 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
303
304 @item
305 Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
306
307 @item
308 Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
309 other portability fixes to the C code; as well as his contributions
310 to VC and the calendar.
311
312 @item
313 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
314 folders have mail waiting in them.
315
316 @item
317 Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
318
319 @item
320 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
321
322 @item
323 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
324 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
325
326 @item
327 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
328 code.
329
330 @item
331 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
332 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
333
334 @item
335 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
336 Language source code.
337
338 @item
339 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
340 Morse code.
341
342 @item
343 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
344 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
345 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
346
347 @item
348 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
349
350 @item
351 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
352 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
353 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
354 location in files between editing sessions.
355
356 @item
357 Gary Foster wrote @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
358 together.
359
360 @item
361 Romain Francoise contributed ACL (Access Control List) support,
362 for preserving extended file attributes on backup and copy.
363
364 @item
365 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
366 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
367 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
368 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
369
370 @item
371 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
372
373 @item
374 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
375
376 @item
377 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
378 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
379 flow control.
380
381 @item
382 Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
383 Python programming language used in Emacs 24.3 onwards.
384
385 @item
386 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
387 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
388
389 @item
390 Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
391 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
392
393 @item
394 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
395 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
396 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
397 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
398 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
399 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
400 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
401 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
402
403 @item
404 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
405 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
406 last-change time stamps in files.
407
408 @item
409 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
410 Gnus.
411
412 @item
413 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
414 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
415 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
416 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
417 keyboard macros.
418
419 @item
420 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
421 using a Lisp-like syntax.
422
423 @item
424 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
425 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
426 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
427 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
428 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
429 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
430 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
431
432 @item
433 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
434 taking the file name from the buffer.
435
436 @item
437 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
438
439 @item
440 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
441 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
442 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
443
444 @item
445 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
446 as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.).
447
448 @item
449 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
450 related to the currently visited file.
451
452 @item
453 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
454
455 @item
456 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
457 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
458 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
459 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
460 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
461 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
462 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
463 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
464 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
465
466 @item
467 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
468
469 @item
470 Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
471
472 @item
473 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
474 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
475 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
476 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
477 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
478 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
479 files and buffers without editing them.
480
481 @item
482 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
483 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
484
485 @item
486 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
487 format of Unicode.
488
489 @item
490 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
491 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
492 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
493
494 @item
495 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
496
497 @item
498 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
499 expansion package.
500
501 @item
502 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
503 DVI documents.
504
505 @item
506 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
507 template instantiations.
508
509 @item
510 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
511
512 @item
513 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
514 browser to display a URL.
515
516 @item
517 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
518 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
519 Emacs, including: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
520 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
521 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
522 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
523 He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
524 @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
525 and implemented libxml2 support. He also wrote @file{eww.el},
526 an Emacs Lisp web browser; and implemented native zlib decompression.
527 Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
528 Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
529 Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
530 Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
531 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Jan Tatarik, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis,
532 Katsumi Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
533 Gnus Manual}).
534
535 @item
536 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
537
538 @item
539 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
540
541 @item
542 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
543 command-line.
544
545 @item
546 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
547 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
548 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
549 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
550
551 @item
552 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's Game of Life.
553
554 @item
555 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
556 load-path problems when some Lisp file shadows another.
557
558 @item
559 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
560 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
561 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
562 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
563 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
564 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
565 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
566 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
567 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
568 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
569
570 @item
571 Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
572 automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
573
574 @item
575 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
576 control system.
577
578 @item
579 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
580 mail with SMTP.
581
582 @item
583 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
584 control system.
585
586 @item
587 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
588 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
589 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
590 those databases to the format used by the @LaTeX{} text formatting package.
591
592 @item
593 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
594 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
595
596 @item
597 Taro Kawagishi implemented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
598 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
599 authentication support.
600
601 @item
602 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
603 buffers.
604
605 @item
606 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
607 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
608 Viper, an emulator of the VI editor.
609
610 @item
611 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
612 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
613 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
614 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
615 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
616
617 @item
618 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
619 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
620 Emacs.
621
622 @item
623 Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
624 Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
625
626 @item
627 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
628 strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
629
630 @item
631 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
632 on-the-fly syntax checking.
633
634 @item
635 David M. Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
636 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
637
638 @item
639 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
640 inline images.
641
642 @item
643 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
644 menu support.
645
646 @item
647 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
648 R. Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
649 @code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
650 program.
651
652 @item
653 David Kågedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
654 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
655
656 @item
657 Igor Kuzmin wrote @file{cconv.el}, providing closure conversion for
658 statically scoped Emacs lisp.
659
660 @item
661 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
662 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
663 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; and
664 @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. He also
665 co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.).
666
667 @item
668 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
669 editing JavaScript.
670
671 @item
672 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
673 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
674 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
675 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
676 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
677 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
678 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
679 whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
680
681 @item
682 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
683 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
684
685 @item
686 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
687 Emacs Lisp programs.
688
689 @item
690 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
691 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.); and rewrote
692 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
693
694 @item
695 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
696 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
697 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
698 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
699 that show the same buffer.
700
701 @item
702 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
703 files.
704
705 @item
706 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
707 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
708 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
709 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
710
711 @item
712 Leo Liu wrote @file{pcmpl-x.el}, providing completion for
713 miscellaneous external tools; and revamped support for Octave in Emacs 24.4.
714
715 @item
716 Károly Lőrentey wrote the multi-terminal code, which allows
717 Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
718
719 @item
720 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
721 control annotation.
722
723 @item
724 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
725 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
726 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
727 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
728 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
729 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
730 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
731 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
732 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
733 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
734 for motion in @code{CapitalizedWordIdentifiers}; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
735 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
736 by setting up appropriate display tables; the version of
737 @file{python.el} used prior to Emacs 24.3; @file{smiley.el}, a
738 facility for displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library
739 for performing mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el}
740 for timing code execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control
741 the display of the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote
742 @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar version control system.
743
744 @item
745 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
746 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
747 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
748 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc.; and
749 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
750 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
751 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
752 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
753
754 @item
755 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
756 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
757 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
758 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
759 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
760 Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
761 from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
762 @code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
763 question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
764 maintenance of autoload files.
765
766 @item
767 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
768 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
769
770 @item
771 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
772
773 @item
774 Christopher J. Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
775 simple substitution ciphers.
776
777 @item
778 Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
779 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
780 used by the @code{calendar} package.
781
782 @item
783 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
784 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
785 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
786
787 @item
788 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
789
790 @item
791 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
792 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
793
794 @item
795 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
796 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
797 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
798 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
799
800 @item
801 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
802 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
803 bibliography files.
804
805 @item
806 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
807 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
808
809 @item
810 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
811
812 @item
813 Tomohiro Matsuyama wrote the native Elisp profiler.
814
815 @item
816 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
817 blackbox game.
818
819 @item
820 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
821 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
822 modes.
823
824 @item
825 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
826 command with its arguments.
827
828 @item
829 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
830 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an electric browser for
831 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
832 and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
833 used in mail messages and news articles.
834
835 @item
836 Gerd Möllmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
837 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
838 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
839 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
840 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
841 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
842 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
843 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
844
845 @item
846 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs (co-)maintainer from Emacs 23 until
847 late in the development of 25.1. He added
848 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
849 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
850 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
851 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
852 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
853 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
854 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
855 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
856 @file{bibtex-style.el} for Bib@TeX{} Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
857 client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD); @file{smie.el}, a generic
858 indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
859 matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
860 cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
861 functions at runtime), added generalized variables to core Emacs
862 Lisp, and implemented a new lightweight advice mechanism.
863
864 @item
865 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
866 elsewhere.
867
868 @item
869 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
870 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
871 URLs.
872
873 @item
874 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
875 @file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
876 @file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
877 @file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
878
879 @item
880 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.), and wrote
881 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
882
883 @item
884 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
885 a mode for editing makefiles.
886
887 @item
888 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
889 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
890
891 @item
892 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
893 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
894 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
895 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
896 the status of version-controlled directories.
897
898 @item
899 Hrvoje Nikšić wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
900 history between Emacs sessions.
901
902 @item
903 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
904 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
905
906 @item
907 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
908 support.
909
910 @item
911 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
912
913 @item
914 Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression
915 testing.
916
917 @item
918 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
919 splitting mechanism.
920
921 @item
922 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
923 embedded text-based tables.
924
925 @item
926 Pieter E. J. Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
927 the MIX assembly language.
928
929 @item
930 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
931 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
932 game to fill all squares on the field.
933
934 @item
935 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
936
937 @item
938 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
939 the Towers of Hanoi puzzle.
940
941 @item
942 William M. Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
943 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
944 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
945 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
946 package.
947
948 @item
949 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
950
951 @item
952 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
953 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
954
955 @item
956 Nicolas Petton wrote @file{map.el}, a library providing
957 map-manipulation functions that work on alists, hash-table and arrays;
958 @file{seq.el}, a library providing advanced sequence manipulation
959 functions and macros; and @file{thunk.el}, a library providing
960 functions and macros to delay the evaluation of forms. He also
961 created the new icon in Emacs 25.
962
963 @item
964 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
965 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
966 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
967 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
968 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
969 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
970 for simultaneous two-column editing.
971
972 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
973 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
974 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
975 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
976 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
977
978 @item
979 Richard L. Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
980 1460) interface for Emacs.
981
982 @item
983 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
984 widgets.
985
986 @item
987 François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
988 support for PO translation files.
989
990 @item
991 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
992 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
993
994 @item
995 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
996 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
997 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
998 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
999 structures.
1000
1001 @item
1002 Francesco A. Potortì wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
1003 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
1004 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
1005
1006 @item
1007 Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
1008 for editing Fortran code.
1009
1010 @item
1011 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
1012 bibliography files by keyword.
1013
1014 @item
1015 Eric S. Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
1016 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
1017 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
1018 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
1019 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
1020 @file{cookie1.el}, support for fortune-cookie programs like
1021 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
1022 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
1023 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
1024 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
1025 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
1026 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
1027 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
1028 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
1029
1030 @item
1031 Edward M. Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
1032 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
1033 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
1034 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
1035 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B. Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
1036 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
1037 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
1038 F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
1039 Gore.
1040
1041 @item
1042 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
1043 system's designated mail client.
1044
1045 @item
1046 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
1047 of the current function in the mode line.
1048
1049 @item
1050 Rob Riepel wrote @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control
1051 functions for the DEC VT line of terminals.
1052
1053 @item
1054 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
1055 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB@.
1056 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
1057 @file{gdb-ui.el}.
1058
1059 @item
1060 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1061 into ``handwriting''.
1062
1063 @item
1064 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1065
1066 @item
1067 Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1068 DSSSL code.
1069
1070 @item
1071 Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24;
1072 and implemented pixel-wise resizing of windows and frames.
1073
1074 @item
1075 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1076 configurations so you can move back to them.
1077
1078 @item
1079 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1080 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1081
1082 @item
1083 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1084 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}).
1085
1086 @item
1087 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1088 references in Info files.
1089
1090 @item
1091 James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1092 dynamic word completion.
1093
1094 @item
1095 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1096 message signatures.
1097
1098 @item
1099 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1100 sessions within Emacs.
1101
1102 @item
1103 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1104 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1105 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1106
1107 @item
1108 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1109 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1110
1111 @item
1112 Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1113
1114 @item
1115 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1116 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1117
1118 @item
1119 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1120 Solitaire game.
1121
1122 @item
1123 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1124 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1125 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1126 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1127 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1128 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1129 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.).
1130
1131 @item
1132 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1133
1134 @item
1135 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1136 as you type.
1137
1138 @item
1139 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1140 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1141
1142 @item
1143 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1144 commercial email.
1145
1146 @item
1147 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1148 recent editing changes.
1149
1150 @item
1151 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1152 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1153 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1154 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1155 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1156
1157 @item
1158 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1159
1160 @item
1161 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1162 mostly-constant data.
1163
1164 @item
1165 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1166 help for key bindings.
1167
1168 @item
1169 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1170
1171 @item
1172 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1173 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1174
1175 @item
1176 Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1177
1178 @item
1179 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1180 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1181 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1182
1183 @item
1184 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1185 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1186
1187 @item
1188 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1189 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1190
1191 @item
1192 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1193 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1194 periods. In addition to much of the core Emacs code, he has
1195 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1196 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1197 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1198 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1199 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1200
1201 @item
1202 Sam Steingold wrote @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a
1203 command every midnight.
1204
1205 @item
1206 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1207 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1208
1209 @item
1210 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a virtual
1211 cursor that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1212
1213 @item
1214 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
1215
1216 @item
1217 Kim F. Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1218 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1219 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1220 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1221 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1222 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1223 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1224
1225 @item
1226 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1227 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1228
1229 @item
1230 Steve Strassmann did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1231 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1232
1233 @item
1234 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1235 buffers.
1236
1237 @item
1238 Tibor Šimko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1239 editing text in Slovak language.
1240
1241 @item
1242 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1243 the keyboard.
1244
1245 @item
1246 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1247 image files as thumbnails.
1248
1249 @item
1250 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1251 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1252 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1253 support.
1254
1255 @item
1256 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1257
1258 @item
1259 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1260 numbers in the left margin.
1261
1262 @item
1263 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1264 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1265 subprocess. Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
1266 clickable links to bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs
1267 package system.
1268
1269 @item
1270 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1271
1272 @item
1273 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1274 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1275 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1276 and Security Layer (SASL); @file{plstore.el} for secure storage of
1277 property lists; and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1278 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1279
1280 @item
1281 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1282 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1283 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
1284 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
1285 @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an
1286 mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface
1287 for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
1288 time zones.
1289
1290 @item
1291 Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a Web hotlist package.
1292
1293 @item
1294 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1295 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1296 (q.v.).
1297
1298 @item
1299 Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
1300
1301 @item
1302 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1303
1304 @item
1305 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1306 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1307 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1308
1309 @item
1310 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1311 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1312 providing electric accent keys.
1313
1314 @item
1315 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1316
1317 @item
1318 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing C, C@t{++},
1319 and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen,
1320 and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for Emacs Lisp
1321 programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual pages;
1322 @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
1323 programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for
1324 lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting
1325 sections of mail messages and news articles.
1326
1327 @item
1328 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1329 grammar files.
1330
1331 @item
1332 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1333 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1334 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1335 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1336 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1337 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1338 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1339 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1340 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1341 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1342 for use under MS-DOS.
1343
1344 @item
1345 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.);
1346 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1347 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1348 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1349 from Jamie Zawinski.
1350
1351 @item
1352 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1353 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1354
1355 @item
1356 John Wiegley was the Emacs maintainer from Emacs 25 onwards. He wrote
1357 @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text according to
1358 regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast buffer
1359 switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of time
1360 spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support; @file{pcomplete.el}, a
1361 programmable completion facility; @file{remember.el}, a mode for
1362 jotting down things to remember; @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book
1363 backend for the Emacs Unified Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a
1364 command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed
1365 to Org mode (q.v.).
1366
1367 @item
1368 Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
1369 finding the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) at point.
1370
1371 @item
1372 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1373
1374 @item
1375 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1376 making use of earlier work by James R. Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.
1377 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C. Honig also wrote various
1378 MH-E components.
1379
1380 @item
1381 Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1382 merging two versions of a file.
1383
1384 @item
1385 Francis J. Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1386 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1387
1388 @item
1389 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1390 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
1391 guessing in CC mode.
1392
1393 @item
1394 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1395 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1396 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1397
1398 @item
1399 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1400
1401 @item
1402 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1403 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1404 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1405 terminal.
1406
1407 @item
1408 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1409 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1410 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1411 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1412
1413 @item
1414 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1415 zone out in front of Emacs.
1416
1417 @item
1418 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1419 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1420 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1421 @file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text,
1422 and also menus on text-mode terminals.
1423
1424 @item
1425 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1426 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1427 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1428 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1429 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1430 for tar files.
1431
1432 @item
1433 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1434
1435 @item
1436 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1437 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1438 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1439 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1440 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1441 other Gnus components.
1442
1443 @item
1444 Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1445
1446 @item
1447 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1448
1449 @item
1450 Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1451 VI text editor.
1452
1453 @item
1454 Ted Zlatanov (as well as his contributions to the Gnus newsreader)
1455 wrote an interface to the GnuTLS library, for secure network
1456 connections; and a futures facility for the URL library.
1457
1458 @item
1459 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1460 with visual feedback.
1461
1462 @end itemize