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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 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
5 @c
6 @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
8
9 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
11 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
12 written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have
13 reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
14 We thank them for their generosity as well.
15
16 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
17 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
18 please 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.
21
22 @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
23 @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
24 @c that many users would notice and consider important.
25 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
26 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
27 @c emacs.texi is used.
28
29 @itemize @bullet
30 @item
31 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
32 @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
33 from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
34 through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
35 commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
36 news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
37 which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
38 conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
39 @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
40 @file{gnus-soup.el}.
41
42 @item
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
45
46 @item
47 Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
48 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
49 files.
50
51 @item
52 Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
53 D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
54 Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
55 interface. He and Kai Gro@ss{}johann wrote the Tramp package, which
56 provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
57 other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
58 @file{tramp-cache.el}.
59
60 @item
61 Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
62 point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
63 in the buffer.
64
65 @item
66 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
67 implemented support for X11.
68
69 @item
70 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
71 files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
72 default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
73 @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
74 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
75 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
76 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.
77
78 @item
79 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
80 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
81
82 @item
83 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
84 Emacs.
85
86 @item
87 Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
88 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
89 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
90 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
91
92 @item
93 Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
94 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
95 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
96 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
97 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
98 ERC distribution).
99
100 @item
101 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
102 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
103 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
104
105 @item
106 Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
107
108 @item
109 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
110 Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
111
112 @item
113 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
114 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
115
116 @item
117 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
118 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
119 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
120 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
121 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
122
123 @item
124 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
125 buffer.
126
127 @item
128 Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
129 that learns landmarks.
130
131 @item
132 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
133 output.
134
135 @item
136 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
137 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
138 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
139 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
140 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
141 the ``generic mode'' feature.
142
143 @item
144 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
145 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
146 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
147
148 @item
149 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
150 Emacs's outline modes.
151
152 @item
153 David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
154 tabular data.
155
156 @item
157 W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
158 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
159
160 @item
161 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
162 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
163
164 @item
165 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
166 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
167 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
168
169 @item
170 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
171 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
172 Lisp.
173
174 @item
175 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
176 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
177
178 @item
179 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
180 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
181 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling.
182
183 @item
184 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
185 for Korean Hanja.
186
187 @item
188 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
189 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
190
191 @item
192 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
193 improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai
194 Gro@ss{}johann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor
195 mode for wrapping long lines.
196
197 @item
198 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
199 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
200 Emacs's dumping procedures.
201
202 @item
203 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
204
205 @item
206 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
207 use it, Snake and Tetris.
208
209 @item
210 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
211 it is analysed for spam.
212
213 @item
214 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
215 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
216
217 @item
218 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
219
220 @item
221 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
222 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
223
224 @item
225 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
226 files as ``thumbnails.''
227
228 @item
229 Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
230 new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
231
232 @item
233 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
234 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
235
236 @item
237 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
238 text replace the current selection.
239
240 @item
241 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
242
243 @item
244 Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
245
246 @item
247 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
248 cross-references in La@TeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
249 (q.v.@:). He was the main author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
250 todo lists, and project planning. Thomas Baumann, Baoqiu Cui, Daniel
251 German, Bastien Guerry, Tassilo Horn, Philip Jackson, Tokuya Kameshima,
252 Ross Patterson, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte, Andy Stewart, David
253 O'Toole, John Wiegley, and Piotr Zielinski also wrote various Org mode
254 components.
255
256 @item
257 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
258 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
259
260 @item
261 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
262 pong game.
263
264 @item
265 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
266
267 @item
268 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
269
270 @item
271 Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
272
273 @item
274 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
275 folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
276 for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
277
278 @item
279 Torbj@"orn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
280
281 @item
282 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
283
284 @item
285 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
286 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
287
288 @item
289 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
290 code.
291
292 @item
293 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
294 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
295
296 @item
297 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
298 Language source code.
299
300 @item
301 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
302 Morse code.
303
304 @item
305 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
306 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
307 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
308
309 @item
310 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
311
312 @item
313 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
314 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
315 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
316 location in files between editing sessions.
317
318 @item
319 Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
320 editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
321 together.
322
323 @item
324 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
325 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
326 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
327 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
328
329 @item
330 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
331
332 @item
333 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
334
335 @item
336 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
337 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
338 flow control.
339
340 @item
341 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
342 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
343
344 @item
345 Juan Le@'{o}n Lahoz Garc@'{i}a wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
346 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
347
348 @item
349 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
350 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
351 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
352 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
353 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
354 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
355 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
356 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
357
358 @item
359 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
360 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
361 last-change time stamps in files.
362
363 @item
364 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
365 Gnus.
366
367 @item
368 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
369 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
370 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
371 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
372 keyboard macros.
373
374 @item
375 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
376 using a Lisp-like syntax.
377
378 @item
379 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
380 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
381 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
382 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
383 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
384 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
385 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
386
387 @item
388 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
389 taking the file name from the buffer.
390
391 @item
392 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
393
394 @item
395 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
396 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
397 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
398
399 @item
400 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
401 as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
402
403 @item
404 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
405 related to the currently visited file.
406
407 @item
408 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
409
410 @item
411 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
412 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
413 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
414 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
415 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
416 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
417 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
418 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
419 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
420
421 @item
422 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
423
424 @item
425 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
426 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
427 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
428 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
429 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
430 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
431 files and buffers without editing them.
432
433 @item
434 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
435 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
436
437 @item
438 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
439 format of Unicode.
440
441 @item
442 Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
443
444 @item
445 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
446 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
447 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
448
449 @item
450 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
451
452 @item
453 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
454 expansion package.
455
456 @item
457 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
458 DVI documents.
459
460 @item
461 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
462 template instantiations.
463
464 @item
465 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
466
467 @item
468 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
469 browser to display a URL.
470
471 @item
472 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
473 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
474 Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
475 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
476 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
477 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of
478 Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
479 Kevin Greiner, Kai Gro@ss{}johann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
480 L@"{u}decke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
481 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
482 Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
483
484 @item
485 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
486
487 @item
488 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
489
490 @item
491 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
492 command-line.
493
494 @item
495 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
496 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
497 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
498 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
499
500 @item
501 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
502
503 @item
504 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
505 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
506
507 @item
508 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
509 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
510 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
511 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
512 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
513 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
514 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
515 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
516 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
517 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
518
519 @item
520 Arne J@o{}rgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
521 automatically guess the correct coding system in LaTeX files.
522
523 @item
524 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
525 control system.
526
527 @item
528 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
529 mail with SMTP.
530
531 @item
532 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
533 control system.
534
535 @item
536 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
537 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
538 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
539 those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package.
540
541 @item
542 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
543 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
544
545 @item
546 Taro Kawagishi implented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
547 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
548 authentication support.
549
550 @item
551 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
552 buffers.
553
554 @item
555 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
556 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
557 Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
558
559 @item
560 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
561 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
562 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
563 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
564 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
565
566 @item
567 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
568 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
569 Emacs.
570
571 @item
572 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
573 strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
574 and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
575
576 @item
577 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
578 on-the-fly syntax checking.
579
580 @item
581 David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
582 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
583
584 @item
585 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
586 inline images.
587
588 @item
589 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
590 menu support.
591
592 @item
593 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
594 R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
595 @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
596 program.
597
598 @item
599 Geoff Kuenning and Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker
600 interface.
601
602 @item
603 David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
604 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
605
606 @item
607 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
608 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
609 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support;
610 @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp
611 objects; and @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.
612 He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
613
614 @item
615 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
616 editing JavaScript.
617
618 @item
619 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
620 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
621 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
622 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
623 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
624 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
625 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
626 whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
627 used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
628
629 @item
630 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
631 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
632
633 @item
634 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
635 Emacs Lisp programs.
636
637 @item
638 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
639 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
640 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
641
642 @item
643 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
644 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
645 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
646 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
647 that show the same buffer.
648
649 @item
650 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
651 files.
652
653 @item
654 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
655 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
656 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
657 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
658
659 @item
660 K@'{a}roly L@"{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which
661 allows Emacs to run on graphical and text-only terminals
662 simultaneously.
663
664 @item
665 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
666 control annotation.
667
668 @item
669 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
670 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
671 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
672 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
673 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
674 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
675 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
676 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
677 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
678 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
679 for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
680 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
681 by setting up appropriate display tables; @file{python.el}, a major mode
682 for the Python programming language; @file{refill.el}, a mode for
683 automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors;
684 @file{smiley.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces;
685 @file{sym-comp.el}, a library for performing mode-dependent symbol
686 completion; @file{benchmark.el} for timing code execution; and
687 @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar.
688 With Riccardo Murri he wrote @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar
689 version control system.
690
691 @item
692 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package. He also wrote
693 @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs;
694 @file{dframe.el}, providing dedicatd frame support modes; and
695 @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to place images over text.
696
697 @item
698 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
699 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
700
701 @item
702 Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
703 simple substitution ciphers.
704
705 @item
706 Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
707 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
708 used by the @code{calendar} package.
709
710 @item
711 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
712 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
713 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
714
715 @item
716 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
717
718 @item
719 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
720 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
721
722 @item
723 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
724 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
725 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
726 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
727
728 @item
729 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
730 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
731 bibliography files.
732
733 @item
734 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
735 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
736
737 @item
738 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
739
740 @item
741 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
742 blackbox game.
743
744 @item
745 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
746 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
747 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
748 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
749 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
750 for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
751 with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
752 command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
753 @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
754 files.
755
756 @item
757 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
758
759 @item
760 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
761 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
762 modes.
763
764 @item
765 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
766 command with its arguments.
767
768 @item
769 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
770 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
771 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
772 @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
773 used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a
774 terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an
775 essential utility.
776
777 @item
778 Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
779 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
780 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
781 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
782 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
783 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
784 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
785 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
786
787 @item
788 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He added
789 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
790 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
791 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
792 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
793 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
794 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
795 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
796 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets; and
797 @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files.
798
799 @item
800 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
801 elsewhere.
802
803 @item
804 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
805 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
806
807 @item
808 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
809 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
810 URLs.
811
812 @item
813 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
814 @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
815 @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
816 @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
817
818 @item
819 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
820 a mode for editing makefiles.
821
822 @item
823 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
824 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
825
826 @item
827 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
828 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
829 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
830 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
831 the status of version-controlled directories.
832
833 @item
834 Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
835
836 @item
837 Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
838 history between Emacs sessions.
839
840 @item
841 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
842 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
843
844 @item
845 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
846 support.
847
848 @item
849 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
850 generating JSON files.
851
852 @item
853 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
854
855 @item
856 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
857 splitting mechanism.
858
859 @item
860 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
861 embedded text-based tables.
862
863 @item
864 Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
865 the MIX assembly language.
866
867 @item
868 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
869 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
870 game to fill all squares on the field.
871
872 @item
873 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
874
875 @item
876 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
877 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
878
879 @item
880 William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
881 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
882 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
883 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
884 package.
885
886 @item
887 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
888
889 @item
890 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
891 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
892
893 @item
894 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
895 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
896 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
897 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
898 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
899 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
900 for simultaneous two-column editing.
901
902 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
903 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
904 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
905 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
906 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
907
908 @item
909 Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
910 1460) interface for Emacs.
911
912 @item
913 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
914 widgets.
915
916 @item
917 Fran@,{c}ois Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
918 support for PO translation files.
919
920 @item
921 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
922 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
923
924 @item
925 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
926 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
927 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
928 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
929 structures.
930
931 @item
932 Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
933 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
934 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
935
936 @item
937 Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
938 for editing Fortran code.
939
940 @item
941 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
942 bibliography files by keyword.
943
944 @item
945 Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
946 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
947 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
948 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
949 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
950 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
951 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
952 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
953 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
954 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
955 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
956 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
957 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
958 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
959
960 @item
961 Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
962 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
963 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
964 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
965 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
966 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
967 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
968 F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
969 Gore.
970
971 @item
972 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
973 system's designated mail client.
974
975 @item
976 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
977 of the current function in the mode line.
978
979 @item
980 Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing
981 an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor,
982 and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC
983 VT line of terminals.
984
985 @item
986 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
987 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
988 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
989 @file{gdb-ui.el}.
990
991 @item
992 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
993 into ``handwriting.''
994
995 @item
996 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
997
998 @item
999 Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1000 DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer.
1001
1002 @item
1003 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1004 configurations so you can move back to them.
1005
1006 @item
1007 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1008 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1009
1010 @item
1011 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1012 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
1013 support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
1014
1015 @item
1016 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1017 references in Info files.
1018
1019 @item
1020 James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1021 dynamic word completion.
1022
1023 @item
1024 Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
1025
1026 @item
1027 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1028 message signatures.
1029
1030 @item
1031 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1032 sessions within Emacs.
1033
1034 @item
1035 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1036 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1037 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1038
1039 @item
1040 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1041 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1042
1043 @item
1044 Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1045
1046 @item
1047 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1048 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1049
1050 @item
1051 Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
1052
1053 @item
1054 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1055 Solitaire game.
1056
1057 @item
1058 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1059 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1060 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1061 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1062 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1063 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1064 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
1065
1066 @item
1067 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1068
1069 @item
1070 Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
1071 @file{TODO} list files.
1072
1073 @item
1074 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1075 as you type.
1076
1077 @item
1078 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1079 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1080
1081 @item
1082 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1083 commercial email.
1084
1085 @item
1086 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1087 recent editing changes.
1088
1089 @item
1090 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1091 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1092 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1093 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1094 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1095
1096 @item
1097 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1098
1099 @item
1100 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1101 mostly-constant data.
1102
1103 @item
1104 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1105 help for key bindings.
1106
1107 @item
1108 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1109
1110 @item
1111 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1112 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1113
1114 @item
1115 Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1116
1117 @item
1118 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1119 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1120 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1121
1122 @item
1123 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1124 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1125
1126 @item
1127 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1128 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1129
1130 @item
1131 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1132 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1133 periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
1134 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1135 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1136 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1137 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1138 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1139
1140 @item
1141 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1142 maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1143 @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1144
1145 @item
1146 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1147 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1148
1149 @item
1150 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
1151 cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1152
1153 @item
1154 Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
1155 that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
1156
1157 @item
1158 Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1159 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1160 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1161 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1162 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1163 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1164 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1165
1166 @item
1167 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1168 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1169
1170 @item
1171 Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1172 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1173
1174 @item
1175 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1176 buffers.
1177
1178 @item
1179 Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1180 editing text in Slovak language.
1181
1182 @item
1183 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1184 the keyboard.
1185
1186 @item
1187 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1188 image files as ``thumbnails.''
1189
1190 @item
1191 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1192 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1193 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1194 support.
1195
1196 @item
1197 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1198
1199 @item
1200 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1201 numbers in the left margin.
1202
1203 @item
1204 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1205 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1206 subprocess.
1207
1208 @item
1209 Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
1210 bug reports.
1211
1212 @item
1213 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1214
1215 @item
1216 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1217 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1218 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1219 and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1220 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1221
1222 @item
1223 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1224 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1225 @file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code; @file{rmailsort.el}, a
1226 package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders; @file{metamail.el}, an
1227 interface to the Metamail program; @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File
1228 mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an mh-e interface for Gnus;
1229 @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface for Gnus; and
1230 @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones.
1231
1232 @item
1233 Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1234
1235 @item
1236 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1237 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1238 (q.v.@:).
1239
1240 @item
1241 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1242
1243 @item
1244 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1245 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1246 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1247
1248 @item
1249 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1250 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1251 providing electric accent keys.
1252
1253 @item
1254 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1255
1256 @item
1257 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for
1258 working with association lists; @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing
1259 C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs,
1260 Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler
1261 for Emacs Lisp programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual
1262 pages; @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in
1263 lisp programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug
1264 reporting for lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for
1265 quoting sections of mail messages and news articles.
1266
1267 @item
1268 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1269 grammar files.
1270
1271 @item
1272 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1273 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1274 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1275 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1276 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1277 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1278 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1279 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1280 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1281 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1282 for use under MS-DOS.
1283
1284 @item
1285 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
1286 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1287 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1288 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1289 from Jamie Zawinski.
1290
1291 @item
1292 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1293 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1294
1295 @item
1296 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1297 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1298 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1299 time spent on projects; the Baha'i calendar support;
1300 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1301 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1302 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1303 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1304 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
1305
1306 @item
1307 Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from
1308 RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format.
1309
1310 @item
1311 Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse
1312 selection; and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding
1313 the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point.
1314
1315 @item
1316 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1317
1318 @item
1319 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1320 making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
1321 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
1322 MH-E components.
1323
1324 @item
1325 Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1326 merging two versions of a file.
1327
1328 @item
1329 Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1330 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1331
1332 @item
1333 Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder
1334 to exit with valuable buffers unsaved.
1335
1336 @item
1337 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1338 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode.
1339
1340 @item
1341 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1342 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1343 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1344
1345 @item
1346 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1347
1348 @item
1349 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1350 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1351 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1352 terminal.
1353
1354 @item
1355 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1356 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1357 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1358 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1359
1360 @item
1361 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1362 zone out in front of Emacs.
1363
1364 @item
1365 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1366 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1367 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1368 @file{rxvt.el}.
1369
1370 @item
1371 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1372 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1373 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1374 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1375 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1376 for tar files.
1377
1378 @item
1379 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1380
1381 @item
1382 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1383 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1384 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1385 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1386 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1387 other Gnus components.
1388
1389 @item
1390 Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1391
1392 @item
1393 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1394
1395 @item
1396 Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1397 VI text editor.
1398
1399 @item
1400 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1401 with visual feedback.
1402
1403 @end itemize
1404
1405 @ignore
1406 arch-tag: bb1d0fa4-0240-4992-b5d4-8602d1e3d4ba
1407 @end ignore