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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
2 @c Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
3 @c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
4 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
6 @c
7 @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
8 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
9
10 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
11 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
12 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
13 written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have
14 reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
15 We thank them for their generosity as well.
16
17 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
18 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
19 please report that as a manual bug. More comprehensive information is
20 available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
21 @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
22
23 @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
24 @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
25 @c that many users would notice and consider important.
26 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
27 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
28 @c emacs.texi is used.
29
30 @itemize @bullet
31 @item
32 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
33 @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
34 from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
35 through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
36 commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
37 news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
38 which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
39 conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
40 @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
41 @file{gnus-soup.el}.
42
43 @item
44 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
45 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
46
47 @item
48 Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
49 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
50 files.
51
52 @item
53 Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
54 D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
55 Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
56 interface. He and Kai Gro@ss{}johann wrote the Tramp package, which
57 provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
58 other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
59 @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 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
68 implemented support for X11.
69
70 @item
71 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
72 files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
73 default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
74 @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
75 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
76 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
77 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.
78
79 @item
80 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
81 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
82
83 @item
84 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
85 Emacs.
86
87 @item
88 Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
89 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
90 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
91 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
92
93 @item
94 Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
95 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
96 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
97 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
98 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
99 ERC distribution).
100
101 @item
102 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
103 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
104 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
105
106 @item
107 Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
108
109 @item
110 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
111 Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
112
113 @item
114 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
115 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
116
117 @item
118 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
119 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
120 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
121 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
122 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
123
124 @item
125 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
126 buffer.
127
128 @item
129 Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
130 that learns landmarks.
131
132 @item
133 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
134 output.
135
136 @item
137 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
138 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
139 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
140 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
141 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
142 the ``generic mode'' feature.
143
144 @item
145 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
146 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
147 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
148
149 @item
150 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
151 Emacs's outline modes.
152
153 @item
154 David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
155 tabular data.
156
157 @item
158 W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
159 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
160
161 @item
162 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
163 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
164
165 @item
166 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
167 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
168 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
169
170 @item
171 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
172 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
173 Lisp.
174
175 @item
176 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
177 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
178
179 @item
180 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
181 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
182 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.
183
184 @item
185 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
186 for Korean Hanja.
187
188 @item
189 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
190 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
191
192 @item
193 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
194 improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai
195 Gro@ss{}johann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor
196 mode for wrapping long lines.
197
198 @item
199 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
200 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
201 Emacs's dumping procedures.
202
203 @item
204 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
205
206 @item
207 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
208 use it, Snake and Tetris.
209
210 @item
211 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
212 it is analysed for spam.
213
214 @item
215 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
216 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
217
218 @item
219 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
220
221 @item
222 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
223 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
224
225 @item
226 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
227 files as ``thumbnails.''
228
229 @item
230 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
231 (@file{notifications.el}).
232
233 @item
234 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
235 source tree to HTML.
236
237 @item
238 Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
239 new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
240
241 @item
242 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
243 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
244
245 @item
246 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
247 text replace the current selection.
248
249 @item
250 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
251
252 @item
253 Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
254
255 @item
256 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
257 cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
258 (q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
259 todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Jan Böcker, Lennart
260 Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Daniel German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip
261 Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima, Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
262 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, David O'Toole, John Wiegley,
263 and Piotr Zielinski also wrote various Org mode components.
264
265 @item
266 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
267 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
268
269 @item
270 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
271 pong game.
272
273 @item
274 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
275
276 @item
277 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
278
279 @item
280 Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
281
282 @item
283 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
284 folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
285 for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
286
287 @item
288 Torbj@"orn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
289
290 @item
291 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
292
293 @item
294 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
295 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
296
297 @item
298 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
299 code.
300
301 @item
302 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
303 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
304
305 @item
306 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
307 Language source code.
308
309 @item
310 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
311 Morse code.
312
313 @item
314 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
315 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
316 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
317
318 @item
319 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
320
321 @item
322 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
323 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
324 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
325 location in files between editing sessions.
326
327 @item
328 Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
329 editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
330 together.
331
332 @item
333 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
334 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
335 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
336 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
337
338 @item
339 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
340
341 @item
342 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
343
344 @item
345 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
346 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
347 flow control.
348
349 @item
350 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
351 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
352
353 @item
354 Juan Le@'{o}n Lahoz Garc@'{i}a wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
355 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
356
357 @item
358 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
359 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
360 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
361 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
362 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
363 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
364 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
365 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
366
367 @item
368 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
369 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
370 last-change time stamps in files.
371
372 @item
373 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
374 Gnus.
375
376 @item
377 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
378 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
379 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
380 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
381 keyboard macros.
382
383 @item
384 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
385 using a Lisp-like syntax.
386
387 @item
388 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
389 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
390 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
391 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
392 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
393 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
394 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
395
396 @item
397 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
398 taking the file name from the buffer.
399
400 @item
401 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
402
403 @item
404 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
405 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
406 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
407
408 @item
409 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
410 as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
411
412 @item
413 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
414 related to the currently visited file.
415
416 @item
417 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
418
419 @item
420 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
421 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
422 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
423 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
424 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
425 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
426 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
427 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
428 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
429
430 @item
431 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
432
433 @item
434 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
435 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
436 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
437 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
438 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
439 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
440 files and buffers without editing them.
441
442 @item
443 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
444 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
445
446 @item
447 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
448 format of Unicode.
449
450 @item
451 Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
452
453 @item
454 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
455 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
456 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
457
458 @item
459 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
460
461 @item
462 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
463 expansion package.
464
465 @item
466 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
467 DVI documents.
468
469 @item
470 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
471 template instantiations.
472
473 @item
474 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
475
476 @item
477 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
478 browser to display a URL.
479
480 @item
481 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
482 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
483 Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
484 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
485 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
486 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of
487 Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
488 Kevin Greiner, Kai Gro@ss{}johann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
489 L@"{u}decke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
490 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
491 Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
492
493 @item
494 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
495
496 @item
497 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
498
499 @item
500 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
501 command-line.
502
503 @item
504 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
505 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
506 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
507 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
508
509 @item
510 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
511
512 @item
513 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
514 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
515
516 @item
517 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
518 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
519 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
520 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
521 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
522 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
523 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
524 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
525 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
526 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
527
528 @item
529 Arne J@o{}rgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
530 automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
531
532 @item
533 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
534 control system.
535
536 @item
537 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
538 mail with SMTP.
539
540 @item
541 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
542 control system.
543
544 @item
545 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
546 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
547 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
548 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
549
550 @item
551 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
552 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
553
554 @item
555 Taro Kawagishi implented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
556 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
557 authentication support.
558
559 @item
560 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
561 buffers.
562
563 @item
564 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
565 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
566 Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
567
568 @item
569 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
570 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
571 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
572 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
573 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
574
575 @item
576 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
577 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
578 Emacs.
579
580 @item
581 Karel Kl@'{@dotless{i}}@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
582 Security-Enchanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
583
584 @item
585 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
586 strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
587 and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
588
589 @item
590 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
591 on-the-fly syntax checking.
592
593 @item
594 David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
595 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
596
597 @item
598 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
599 inline images.
600
601 @item
602 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
603 menu support.
604
605 @item
606 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
607 R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
608 @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
609 program.
610
611 @item
612 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
613
614 @item
615 David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
616 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
617
618 @item
619 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
620 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
621 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support;
622 @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp
623 objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
624 He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
625
626 @item
627 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
628 editing JavaScript.
629
630 @item
631 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
632 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
633 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
634 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
635 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
636 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
637 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
638 whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
639 used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
640
641 @item
642 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
643 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
644
645 @item
646 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
647 Emacs Lisp programs.
648
649 @item
650 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
651 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
652 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
653
654 @item
655 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
656 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
657 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
658 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
659 that show the same buffer.
660
661 @item
662 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
663 files.
664
665 @item
666 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
667 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
668 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
669 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
670
671 @item
672 K@'{a}roly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which
673 allows Emacs to run on graphical and text-only terminals
674 simultaneously.
675
676 @item
677 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
678 control annotation.
679
680 @item
681 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
682 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
683 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
684 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
685 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
686 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
687 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
688 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
689 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
690 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
691 for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
692 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
693 by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
694 for the Python programming language; @file{refill.el}, a mode for
695 automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors;
696 @file{smiley.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces;
697 @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing mode-dependent symbol
698 completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code execution; and
699 @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar.
700 With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar
701 version control system.
702
703 @item
704 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
705 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
706 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
707 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc; and
708 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
709 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
710 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
711 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
712
713 @item
714 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
715 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
716
717 @item
718 Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
719 simple substitution ciphers.
720
721 @item
722 Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
723 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
724 used by the @code{calendar} package.
725
726 @item
727 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
728 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
729 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
730
731 @item
732 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
733
734 @item
735 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
736 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
737
738 @item
739 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
740 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
741 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
742 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
743
744 @item
745 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
746 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
747 bibliography files.
748
749 @item
750 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
751 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
752
753 @item
754 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
755
756 @item
757 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
758 blackbox game.
759
760 @item
761 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
762 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
763 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
764 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
765 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
766 for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
767 with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
768 command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
769 @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
770 files.
771
772 @item
773 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
774
775 @item
776 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
777 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
778 modes.
779
780 @item
781 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
782 command with its arguments.
783
784 @item
785 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
786 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
787 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
788 @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
789 used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a
790 terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an
791 essential utility.
792
793 @item
794 Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
795 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
796 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
797 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
798 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
799 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
800 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
801 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
802
803 @item
804 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He added
805 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
806 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
807 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
808 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
809 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
810 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
811 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
812 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
813 @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; and @file{mpc.el}, a
814 client for the ``Music Player Daemon''.
815
816 @item
817 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
818 elsewhere.
819
820 @item
821 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
822 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
823
824 @item
825 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
826 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
827 URLs.
828
829 @item
830 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
831 @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
832 @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
833 @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
834
835 @item
836 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
837 a mode for editing makefiles.
838
839 @item
840 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
841 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
842
843 @item
844 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
845 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
846 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
847 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
848 the status of version-controlled directories.
849
850 @item
851 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
852
853 @item
854 Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
855 history between Emacs sessions.
856
857 @item
858 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
859 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
860
861 @item
862 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
863 support.
864
865 @item
866 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
867 generating JSON files.
868
869 @item
870 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
871
872 @item
873 Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression
874 testing.
875
876 @item
877 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
878 splitting mechanism.
879
880 @item
881 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
882 embedded text-based tables.
883
884 @item
885 Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
886 the MIX assembly language.
887
888 @item
889 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
890 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
891 game to fill all squares on the field.
892
893 @item
894 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
895
896 @item
897 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
898 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
899
900 @item
901 William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
902 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
903 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
904 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
905 package.
906
907 @item
908 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
909
910 @item
911 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
912 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
913
914 @item
915 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
916 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
917 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
918 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
919 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
920 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
921 for simultaneous two-column editing.
922
923 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
924 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
925 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
926 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
927 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
928
929 @item
930 Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
931 1460) interface for Emacs.
932
933 @item
934 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
935 widgets.
936
937 @item
938 Fran@,{c}ois Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
939 support for PO translation files.
940
941 @item
942 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
943 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
944
945 @item
946 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
947 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
948 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
949 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
950 structures.
951
952 @item
953 Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
954 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
955 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
956
957 @item
958 Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
959 for editing Fortran code.
960
961 @item
962 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
963 bibliography files by keyword.
964
965 @item
966 Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
967 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
968 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
969 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
970 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
971 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
972 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
973 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
974 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
975 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
976 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
977 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
978 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
979 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
980
981 @item
982 Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
983 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
984 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
985 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
986 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
987 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
988 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
989 F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
990 Gore.
991
992 @item
993 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
994 system's designated mail client.
995
996 @item
997 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
998 of the current function in the mode line.
999
1000 @item
1001 Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing
1002 an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor,
1003 and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC
1004 VT line of terminals.
1005
1006 @item
1007 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
1008 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
1009 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
1010 @file{gdb-ui.el}.
1011
1012 @item
1013 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1014 into ``handwriting.''
1015
1016 @item
1017 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1018
1019 @item
1020 Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1021 DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer.
1022
1023 @item
1024 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1025 configurations so you can move back to them.
1026
1027 @item
1028 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1029 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1030
1031 @item
1032 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1033 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
1034 support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
1035
1036 @item
1037 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1038 references in Info files.
1039
1040 @item
1041 James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1042 dynamic word completion.
1043
1044 @item
1045 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
1046
1047 @item
1048 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1049 message signatures.
1050
1051 @item
1052 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1053 sessions within Emacs.
1054
1055 @item
1056 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1057 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1058 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1059
1060 @item
1061 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1062 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1063
1064 @item
1065 Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1066
1067 @item
1068 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1069 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1070
1071 @item
1072 Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
1073
1074 @item
1075 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1076 Solitaire game.
1077
1078 @item
1079 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1080 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1081 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1082 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1083 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1084 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1085 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
1086
1087 @item
1088 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1089
1090 @item
1091 Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
1092 @file{TODO} list files.
1093
1094 @item
1095 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1096 as you type.
1097
1098 @item
1099 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1100 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1101
1102 @item
1103 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1104 commercial email.
1105
1106 @item
1107 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1108 recent editing changes.
1109
1110 @item
1111 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1112 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1113 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1114 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1115 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1116
1117 @item
1118 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1119
1120 @item
1121 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1122 mostly-constant data.
1123
1124 @item
1125 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1126 help for key bindings.
1127
1128 @item
1129 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1130
1131 @item
1132 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1133 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1134
1135 @item
1136 Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1137
1138 @item
1139 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1140 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1141 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1142
1143 @item
1144 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1145 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1146
1147 @item
1148 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1149 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1150
1151 @item
1152 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1153 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1154 periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
1155 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1156 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1157 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1158 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1159 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1160
1161 @item
1162 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1163 maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1164 @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1165
1166 @item
1167 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1168 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1169
1170 @item
1171 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
1172 cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1173
1174 @item
1175 Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
1176 that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
1177
1178 @item
1179 Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1180 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1181 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1182 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1183 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1184 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1185 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1186
1187 @item
1188 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1189 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1190
1191 @item
1192 Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1193 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1194
1195 @item
1196 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1197 buffers.
1198
1199 @item
1200 Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1201 editing text in Slovak language.
1202
1203 @item
1204 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1205 the keyboard.
1206
1207 @item
1208 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1209 image files as ``thumbnails.''
1210
1211 @item
1212 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1213 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1214 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1215 support.
1216
1217 @item
1218 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1219
1220 @item
1221 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1222 numbers in the left margin.
1223
1224 @item
1225 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1226 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1227 subprocess.
1228
1229 @item
1230 Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
1231 bug reports.
1232
1233 @item
1234 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1235
1236 @item
1237 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1238 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1239 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1240 and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1241 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1242
1243 @item
1244 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1245 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1246 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
1247 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
1248 @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an
1249 mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface
1250 for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
1251 time zones.
1252
1253 @item
1254 Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1255
1256 @item
1257 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1258 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1259 (q.v.@:).
1260
1261 @item
1262 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1263
1264 @item
1265 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1266 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1267 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1268
1269 @item
1270 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1271 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1272 providing electric accent keys.
1273
1274 @item
1275 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1276
1277 @item
1278 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for
1279 working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing
1280 C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs,
1281 Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler
1282 for Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual
1283 pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in
1284 lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug
1285 reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for
1286 quoting sections of mail messages and news articles.
1287
1288 @item
1289 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1290 grammar files.
1291
1292 @item
1293 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1294 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1295 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1296 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1297 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1298 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1299 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1300 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1301 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1302 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1303 for use under MS-DOS.
1304
1305 @item
1306 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
1307 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1308 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1309 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1310 from Jamie Zawinski.
1311
1312 @item
1313 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1314 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1315
1316 @item
1317 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1318 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1319 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1320 time spent on projects; the Baha'i calendar support;
1321 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1322 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1323 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1324 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1325 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
1326
1327 @item
1328 Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
1329 selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
1330 the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
1331
1332 @item
1333 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1334
1335 @item
1336 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1337 making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
1338 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
1339 MH-E components.
1340
1341 @item
1342 Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1343 merging two versions of a file.
1344
1345 @item
1346 Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1347 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1348
1349 @item
1350 Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder
1351 to exit with valuable buffers unsaved.
1352
1353 @item
1354 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1355 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode.
1356
1357 @item
1358 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1359 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1360 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1361
1362 @item
1363 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1364
1365 @item
1366 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1367 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1368 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1369 terminal.
1370
1371 @item
1372 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1373 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1374 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1375 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1376
1377 @item
1378 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1379 zone out in front of Emacs.
1380
1381 @item
1382 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1383 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1384 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1385 @file{rxvt.el}.
1386
1387 @item
1388 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1389 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1390 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1391 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1392 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1393 for tar files.
1394
1395 @item
1396 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1397
1398 @item
1399 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1400 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1401 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1402 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1403 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1404 other Gnus components.
1405
1406 @item
1407 Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1408
1409 @item
1410 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1411
1412 @item
1413 Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1414 VI text editor.
1415
1416 @item
1417 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1418 with visual feedback.
1419
1420 @end itemize