1 @c -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
2 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
3 @c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
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.
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 report that as a manual bug. More comprehensive information is
19 available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
20 @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
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.
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
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
47 Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
48 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
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
57 @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine interface;
59 and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
60 storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
61 provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
62 other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
63 @file{tramp-cache.el}.
66 Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
67 point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
71 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
72 implemented support for X11.
75 Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
76 a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
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.
89 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
90 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
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. He also made many other contributions to other
96 areas, including MS Windows support.
99 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
103 Steven L. Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
104 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
105 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
106 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
109 Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
110 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
111 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schäfer,
112 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
113 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
117 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
118 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
119 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
122 Stephen Berman wrote @file{todo-mode.el} (based on the original version
123 by Oliver Seidel), a package for maintaining @file{TODO} list files.
126 Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
129 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
130 Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
133 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
134 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
137 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
138 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
139 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
140 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
141 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.).
144 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
148 Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
149 that learns landmarks.
152 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
156 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
157 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
158 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
159 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
160 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
161 the ``generic mode'' feature.
164 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
165 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
166 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
169 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
170 Emacs's outline modes.
173 David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
177 Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
178 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
181 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
182 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
185 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
186 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
187 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
190 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
191 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
195 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J. D. Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
196 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
199 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
200 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
201 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. He also
202 wrote the ``Introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp'' manual.
205 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
209 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
210 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
213 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3. He made many
214 improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
215 @file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
216 and improved support for themes and packages.
219 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
220 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
221 Emacs's dumping procedures.
224 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
227 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
228 use it, Snake and Tetris.
231 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
232 it is analyzed for spam.
235 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
236 generating JSON files.
239 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
240 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
243 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
246 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
247 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
250 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
251 files as ``thumbnails''.
254 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
255 (@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
256 and @file{color.el}, a library for general color manipulation.
257 He also made various contributions to Gnus.
260 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
264 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
265 text replace the current selection.
268 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
271 Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
272 He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
275 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
276 cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
277 (q.v.). He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
278 todo lists, and project planning. Bastien Guerry subsequently took
279 over maintainership. Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
280 Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S. Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
281 Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
282 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
283 Piotr Zieliński, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
284 For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
287 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
288 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
291 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
295 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
298 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
301 Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
304 Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
305 other portability fixes to the C code; as well as his contributions
306 to VC and the calendar.
309 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
310 folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
311 for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
314 Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
317 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
320 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
321 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
324 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
328 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
329 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
332 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
333 Language source code.
336 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
340 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
341 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
342 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
345 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
348 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
349 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
350 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
351 location in files between editing sessions.
354 Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
355 editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
359 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
360 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
361 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
362 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
365 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
368 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
371 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
372 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
376 Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
377 Python programming language used in Emacs 24.3 onwards.
380 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
381 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
384 Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
385 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
388 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
389 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
390 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
391 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
392 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
393 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
394 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
395 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
398 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
399 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
400 last-change time stamps in files.
403 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
407 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
408 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
409 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
410 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
414 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
415 using a Lisp-like syntax.
418 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
419 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
420 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
421 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
422 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
423 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
424 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
427 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
428 taking the file name from the buffer.
431 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
434 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
435 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
436 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
439 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
440 as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.).
443 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
444 related to the currently visited file.
447 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
450 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
451 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
452 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
453 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
454 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
455 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
456 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
457 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
458 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
461 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
464 Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
467 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
468 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
469 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
470 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
471 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
472 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
473 files and buffers without editing them.
476 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
477 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
480 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
484 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
485 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
486 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
489 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
492 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
496 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
500 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
501 template instantiations.
504 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
507 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
508 browser to display a URL.
511 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
512 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
513 Emacs, including: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
514 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
515 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
516 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
517 He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
518 @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
519 and implemented libxml2 support.
520 Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
521 Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
522 Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
523 Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
524 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi
525 Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
529 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
532 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
535 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
539 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
540 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
541 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
542 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
545 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
548 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
549 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
552 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
553 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
554 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
555 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
556 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
557 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
558 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
559 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
560 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
561 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
564 Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
565 automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
568 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
572 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
576 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
580 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
581 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
582 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
583 those databases to the format used by the @LaTeX{} text formatting package.
586 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
587 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
590 Taro Kawagishi implemented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
591 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
592 authentication support.
595 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
599 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
600 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
601 Viper, another emulator of the VI editor.
604 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
605 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
606 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
607 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
608 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
611 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
612 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
616 Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
617 Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
620 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
621 strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
624 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
625 on-the-fly syntax checking.
628 David M. Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
629 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
632 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
636 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
640 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
641 R. Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
642 @code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
646 David Kågedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
647 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
650 Igor Kuzmin wrote @file{cconv.el}, providing closure conversion for
651 statically scoped Emacs lisp.
654 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
655 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
656 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; and
657 @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. He also
658 co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.).
661 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
665 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
666 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
667 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
668 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
669 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
670 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
671 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
672 whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
675 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
676 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
679 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
683 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
684 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.); and rewrote
685 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
688 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
689 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
690 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
691 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
692 that show the same buffer.
695 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
699 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
700 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
701 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
702 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
705 Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
706 Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
709 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
713 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
714 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
715 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
716 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
717 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
718 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
719 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
720 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
721 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
722 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
723 for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
724 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
725 by setting up appropriate display tables; the version of
726 @file{python.el} used prior to Emacs 24.3; @file{smiley.el}, a
727 facility for displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library
728 for performing mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el}
729 for timing code execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control
730 the display of the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote
731 @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar version control system.
734 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
735 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
736 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
737 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc.; and
738 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
739 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
740 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
741 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
744 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
745 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
746 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
747 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
748 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
749 Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
750 from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
751 @code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
752 question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
753 maintenance of autoload files.
756 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
757 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
760 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
763 Christopher J. Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
764 simple substitution ciphers.
767 Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
768 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
769 used by the @code{calendar} package.
772 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
773 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
774 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
777 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
780 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
781 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
784 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
785 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
786 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
787 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
790 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
791 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
795 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
796 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
799 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
802 Tomohiro Matsuyama wrote the native Elisp profiler.
805 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
809 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
810 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
814 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
815 command with its arguments.
818 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
819 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
820 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
821 and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
822 used in mail messages and news articles.
824 @c Obsolete since 24.4
825 ; and @file{terminal.el}, a terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses.
829 Gerd Möllmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
830 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
831 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
832 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
833 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
834 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
835 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
836 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
839 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs (co-)maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He added
840 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
841 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
842 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
843 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
844 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
845 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
846 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
847 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
848 @file{bibtex-style.el} for Bib@TeX{} Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
849 client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; @file{smie.el}, a generic
850 indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
851 matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
852 cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
853 functions at runtime), and added generalized variables to core Emacs
857 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
861 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
862 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
866 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
867 @file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
868 @file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
869 @file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
872 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.), and wrote
873 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
876 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
877 a mode for editing makefiles.
880 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
881 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
884 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
887 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
888 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
889 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
890 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
891 the status of version-controlled directories.
894 Hrvoje Nikšić wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
895 history between Emacs sessions.
898 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
899 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
902 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
906 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
909 Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression
913 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
917 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
918 embedded text-based tables.
921 Pieter E. J. Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
922 the MIX assembly language.
925 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
926 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
927 game to fill all squares on the field.
930 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
933 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
934 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
937 William M. Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
938 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
939 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
940 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
944 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
947 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
948 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
951 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
952 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
953 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
954 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
955 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
956 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
957 for simultaneous two-column editing.
959 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
960 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
961 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
962 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
963 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
966 Richard L. Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
967 1460) interface for Emacs.
970 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
974 François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
975 support for PO translation files.
978 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
979 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
982 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
983 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
984 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
985 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
989 Francesco A. Potortì wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
990 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
991 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
994 Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
995 for editing Fortran code.
998 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
999 bibliography files by keyword.
1002 Eric S. Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
1003 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
1004 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
1005 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
1006 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
1007 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
1008 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
1009 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
1010 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
1011 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
1012 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
1013 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
1014 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
1015 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
1018 Edward M. Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
1019 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
1020 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
1021 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
1022 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B. Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
1023 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
1024 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
1025 F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
1029 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
1030 system's designated mail client.
1033 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
1034 of the current function in the mode line.
1037 Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing
1038 an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor,
1039 and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC
1040 VT line of terminals.
1043 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
1044 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB@.
1045 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
1049 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1050 into ``handwriting''.
1053 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1056 Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1060 Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24.
1063 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1064 configurations so you can move back to them.
1067 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1068 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1071 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1072 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}).
1075 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1076 references in Info files.
1079 James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1080 dynamic word completion.
1083 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
1086 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1090 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1091 sessions within Emacs.
1094 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1095 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1096 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1099 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1100 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1103 Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1106 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1107 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1112 Rainer Schöpf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
1116 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1120 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1121 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1122 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1123 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1124 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1125 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1126 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.).
1129 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1132 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1136 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1137 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1140 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1144 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1145 recent editing changes.
1148 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1149 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1150 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1151 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1152 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1155 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1158 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1159 mostly-constant data.
1162 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1163 help for key bindings.
1166 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1169 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1170 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1173 Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1176 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1177 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1178 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1181 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1182 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1185 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1186 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1189 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1190 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1191 periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
1192 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1193 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1194 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1195 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1196 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1199 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1200 maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1201 @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1204 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1205 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1208 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
1209 cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1212 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
1215 Kim F. Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1216 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1217 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1218 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1219 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1220 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1221 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1224 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1225 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1228 Steve Strassmann did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1229 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1232 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1236 Tibor Šimko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1237 editing text in Slovak language.
1240 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1244 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1245 image files as ``thumbnails''.
1248 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1249 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1250 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1254 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1257 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1258 numbers in the left margin.
1261 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1262 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1263 subprocess. Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
1264 clickable links to bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs
1268 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1271 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1272 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1273 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1274 and Security Layer (SASL); @file{plstore.el} for secure storage of
1275 property lists; and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1276 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1279 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1280 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1281 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
1282 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
1283 @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an
1284 mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface
1285 for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
1289 Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1292 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1293 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1297 Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
1300 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1303 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1304 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1305 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1308 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1309 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1310 providing electric accent keys.
1313 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1316 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing C, C@t{++},
1317 and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen,
1318 and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for Emacs Lisp
1319 programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual pages;
1320 @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
1321 programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for
1322 lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting
1323 sections of mail messages and news articles.
1326 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1330 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1331 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1332 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1333 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1334 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1335 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1336 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1337 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1338 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1339 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1340 for use under MS-DOS.
1343 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.);
1344 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1345 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1346 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1347 from Jamie Zawinski.
1350 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1351 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1354 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1355 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1356 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1357 time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
1358 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1359 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1360 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1361 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1362 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.).
1365 Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
1366 finding the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) at point.
1369 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1372 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1373 making use of earlier work by James R. Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.
1374 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C. Honig also wrote various
1378 Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1379 merging two versions of a file.
1382 Francis J. Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1383 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1386 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1387 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
1388 ``guessing'' in CC mode.
1391 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1392 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1393 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1396 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1399 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1400 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1401 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1405 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1406 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1407 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1408 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1411 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1412 zone out in front of Emacs.
1415 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1416 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1417 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1418 @file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text.
1421 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1422 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1423 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1424 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1425 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1429 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1432 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1433 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1434 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1435 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1436 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1437 other Gnus components.
1440 Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1443 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1446 Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1450 Ted Zlatanov (as well as his contributions to the Gnus newsreader)
1451 wrote an interface to the GnuTLS library, for secure network
1452 connections; and a futures facility for the URL library.
1455 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1456 with visual feedback.