1 @c -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
2 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
3 @c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
9 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
11 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
12 written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have
13 reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
14 We thank them for their generosity as well.
16 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
17 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
18 please make a bug report. More comprehensive information is
19 available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
20 @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
22 @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
23 @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
24 @c that many users would notice and consider important.
25 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
26 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
27 @c emacs.texi is used.
31 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
32 @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
33 from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
34 through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
35 commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
36 news articles; @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
37 which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
38 conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
39 @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
47 Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
48 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
52 Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
53 D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
54 Avahi services; @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
55 storing confidential data; and @file{filenotify.el} and the associated
56 low-level interface routines, for watching file status changes.
57 He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which provides
58 transparent remote file editing using ssh, ftp, and other network
59 protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote @file{tramp-cache.el}.
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
67 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
68 implemented support for X11.
71 Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
72 a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
75 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
76 files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
77 default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
78 @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
79 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
80 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
81 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. He
82 also worked on an early version of the lexical binding code.
85 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
86 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
89 Juanma Barranquero wrote @file{emacs-lock.el} (based on the original
90 version by Tom Wurgler), which makes it harder to exit with valuable
91 buffers unsaved; and @file{frameset.el}, for saving and restoring the
92 frame/window setup. He also made many other contributions to other
93 areas, including MS Windows support.
96 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
100 Steven L. Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
101 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
102 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
103 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
106 Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
107 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
108 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schäfer,
109 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
110 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
114 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
115 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
116 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
119 Stephen Berman wrote @file{todo-mode.el} (based on the original version
120 by Oliver Seidel), a package for maintaining @file{TODO} list files.
123 Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
126 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{opascal.el}, a mode for editing
127 Object Pascal source code.
130 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
131 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
134 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
135 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
136 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
137 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
138 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.).
141 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
145 Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
146 that learns landmarks.
149 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
153 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
154 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
155 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
156 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
157 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
158 the generic mode feature.
161 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
162 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
163 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
166 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
167 Emacs's outline modes.
170 David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
174 Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
175 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
178 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
179 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
182 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
183 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
184 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
187 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
188 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
192 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J. D. Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
193 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
196 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
197 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
198 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. He also
199 wrote the Emacs Lisp introduction. @xref{Top,,,eintr, Introduction to
200 Programming in Emacs Lisp}.
203 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
207 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
208 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS@. Yamamoto Mitsuharu continued to
209 contribute to Mac OS support in the newer Nextstep port; and also
210 improved support for multi-monitor displays.
213 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3. He made many
214 improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
215 @file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
216 and improved support for themes and packages.
219 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
220 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
221 Emacs's dumping procedures.
224 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
227 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
228 use it, Snake and Tetris.
231 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
232 it is analyzed for spam.
235 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
236 generating JSON files.
239 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
240 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
243 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
246 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
247 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
250 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
254 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of desktop notifications
255 (@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
256 and @file{color.el}, a library for general color manipulation.
257 He also made various contributions to Gnus.
260 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
264 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
265 text replace the current selection.
268 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
271 Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
272 He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
275 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
276 cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
277 (q.v.). He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
278 todo lists, and project planning. Bastien Guerry subsequently took
279 over maintainership. Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
280 Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S. Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
281 Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
282 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
283 Piotr Zieliński, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
284 For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
287 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
288 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
291 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
295 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
298 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
301 Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
304 Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
305 other portability fixes to the C code; as well as his contributions
306 to VC and the calendar.
309 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
310 folders have mail waiting in them.
313 Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
316 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
319 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
320 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
323 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
327 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
328 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
331 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
332 Language source code.
335 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
339 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
340 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
341 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
344 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
347 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
348 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
349 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
350 location in files between editing sessions.
353 Gary Foster wrote @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
357 Romain Francoise contributed ACL (Access Control List) support,
358 for preserving extended file attributes on backup and copy.
361 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
362 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
363 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
364 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
367 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
370 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
373 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
374 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
378 Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
379 Python programming language used in Emacs 24.3 onwards.
382 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
383 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
386 Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
387 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
390 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
391 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
392 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
393 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
394 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
395 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
396 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
397 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
400 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
401 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
402 last-change time stamps in files.
405 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
409 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
410 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
411 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
412 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
416 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
417 using a Lisp-like syntax.
420 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
421 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
422 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
423 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
424 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
425 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
426 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
429 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
430 taking the file name from the buffer.
433 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
436 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
437 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
438 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
441 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
442 as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.).
445 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
446 related to the currently visited file.
449 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
452 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
453 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
454 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
455 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
456 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
457 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
458 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
459 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
460 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
463 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
466 Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
469 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
470 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
471 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
472 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
473 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
474 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
475 files and buffers without editing them.
478 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
479 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
482 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
486 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
487 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
488 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
491 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
494 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
498 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
502 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
503 template instantiations.
506 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
509 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
510 browser to display a URL.
513 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
514 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
515 Emacs, including: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
516 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
517 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
518 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
519 He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
520 @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
521 and implemented libxml2 support. He also wrote @file{eww.el},
522 an Emacs Lisp web browser; and implemented native zlib decompression.
523 Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
524 Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
525 Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
526 Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
527 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Jan Tatarik, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis,
528 Katsumi Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
532 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
535 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
538 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
542 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
543 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
544 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
545 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
548 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's Game of Life.
551 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
552 load-path problems when some Lisp file shadows another.
555 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
556 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
557 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
558 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
559 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
560 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
561 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
562 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
563 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
564 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
567 Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
568 automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
571 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
575 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
579 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
583 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
584 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
585 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
586 those databases to the format used by the @LaTeX{} text formatting package.
589 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
590 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
593 Taro Kawagishi implemented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
594 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
595 authentication support.
598 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
602 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
603 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
604 Viper, an emulator of the VI editor.
607 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
608 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
609 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
610 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
611 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
614 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
615 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
619 Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
620 Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
623 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
624 strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
627 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
628 on-the-fly syntax checking.
631 David M. Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
632 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
635 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
639 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
643 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
644 R. Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
645 @code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
649 David Kågedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
650 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
653 Igor Kuzmin wrote @file{cconv.el}, providing closure conversion for
654 statically scoped Emacs lisp.
657 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
658 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
659 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; and
660 @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. He also
661 co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.).
664 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
668 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
669 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
670 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
671 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
672 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
673 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
674 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
675 whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
678 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
679 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
682 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
686 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
687 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.); and rewrote
688 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
691 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
692 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
693 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
694 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
695 that show the same buffer.
698 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
702 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
703 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
704 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
705 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
708 Leo Liu wrote @file{pcmpl-x.el}, providing completion for
709 miscellaneous external tools; and revamped support for Octave in Emacs 24.4.
712 Károly Lőrentey wrote the multi-terminal code, which allows
713 Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
716 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
720 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
721 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
722 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
723 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
724 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
725 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
726 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
727 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
728 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
729 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
730 for motion in @code{CapitalizedWordIdentifiers}; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
731 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
732 by setting up appropriate display tables; the version of
733 @file{python.el} used prior to Emacs 24.3; @file{smiley.el}, a
734 facility for displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library
735 for performing mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el}
736 for timing code execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control
737 the display of the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote
738 @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar version control system.
741 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
742 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
743 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
744 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc.; and
745 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
746 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
747 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
748 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
751 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
752 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
753 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
754 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
755 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
756 Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
757 from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
758 @code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
759 question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
760 maintenance of autoload files.
763 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
764 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
767 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
770 Christopher J. Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
771 simple substitution ciphers.
774 Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
775 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
776 used by the @code{calendar} package.
779 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
780 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
781 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
784 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
787 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
788 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
791 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
792 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
793 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
794 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
797 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
798 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
802 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
803 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
806 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
809 Tomohiro Matsuyama wrote the native Elisp profiler.
812 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
816 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
817 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
821 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
822 command with its arguments.
825 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
826 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an electric browser for
827 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
828 and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
829 used in mail messages and news articles.
832 Gerd Möllmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
833 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
834 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
835 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
836 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
837 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
838 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
839 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
842 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs (co-)maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He added
843 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
844 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
845 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
846 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
847 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
848 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
849 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
850 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
851 @file{bibtex-style.el} for Bib@TeX{} Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
852 client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD); @file{smie.el}, a generic
853 indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
854 matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
855 cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
856 functions at runtime), added generalized variables to core Emacs
857 Lisp, and implemented a new lightweight advice mechanism.
860 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
864 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
865 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
869 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
870 @file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
871 @file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
872 @file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
875 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.), and wrote
876 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
879 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
880 a mode for editing makefiles.
883 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
884 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
887 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
888 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
889 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
890 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
891 the status of version-controlled directories.
894 Hrvoje Nikšić wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
895 history between Emacs sessions.
898 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
899 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
902 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
906 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
909 Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression
913 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
917 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
918 embedded text-based tables.
921 Pieter E. J. Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
922 the MIX assembly language.
925 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
926 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
927 game to fill all squares on the field.
930 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
933 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
934 the Towers of Hanoi puzzle.
937 William M. Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
938 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
939 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
940 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
944 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
947 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
948 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
951 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
952 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
953 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
954 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
955 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
956 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
957 for simultaneous two-column editing.
959 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
960 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
961 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
962 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
963 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
966 Richard L. Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
967 1460) interface for Emacs.
970 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
974 François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
975 support for PO translation files.
978 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
979 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
982 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
983 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
984 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
985 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
989 Francesco A. Potortì wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
990 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
991 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
994 Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
995 for editing Fortran code.
998 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
999 bibliography files by keyword.
1002 Eric S. Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
1003 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
1004 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
1005 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
1006 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
1007 @file{cookie1.el}, support for fortune-cookie programs like
1008 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
1009 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
1010 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
1011 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
1012 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
1013 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
1014 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
1015 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
1018 Edward M. Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
1019 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
1020 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
1021 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
1022 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B. Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
1023 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
1024 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
1025 F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
1029 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
1030 system's designated mail client.
1033 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
1034 of the current function in the mode line.
1037 Rob Riepel wrote @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control
1038 functions for the DEC VT line of terminals.
1041 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
1042 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB@.
1043 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
1047 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1048 into ``handwriting''.
1051 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1054 Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1058 Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24;
1059 and implemented pixel-wise resizing of windows and frames.
1062 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1063 configurations so you can move back to them.
1066 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1067 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1070 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1071 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}).
1074 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1075 references in Info files.
1078 James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1079 dynamic word completion.
1082 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1086 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1087 sessions within Emacs.
1090 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1091 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1092 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1095 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1096 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1099 Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1102 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1103 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1106 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1110 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1111 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1112 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1113 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1114 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1115 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1116 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.).
1119 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1122 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1126 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1127 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1130 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1134 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1135 recent editing changes.
1138 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1139 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1140 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1141 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1142 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1145 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1148 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1149 mostly-constant data.
1152 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1153 help for key bindings.
1156 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1159 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1160 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1163 Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1166 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1167 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1168 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1171 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1172 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1175 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1176 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1179 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1180 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1181 periods. In addition to much of the core Emacs code, he has
1182 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1183 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1184 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1185 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1186 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1189 Sam Steingold wrote @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a
1190 command every midnight.
1193 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1194 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1197 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a virtual
1198 cursor that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1201 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
1204 Kim F. Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1205 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1206 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1207 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1208 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1209 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1210 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1213 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1214 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1217 Steve Strassmann did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1218 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1221 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1225 Tibor Šimko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1226 editing text in Slovak language.
1229 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1233 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1234 image files as thumbnails.
1237 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1238 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1239 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1243 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1246 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1247 numbers in the left margin.
1250 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1251 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1252 subprocess. Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
1253 clickable links to bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs
1257 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1260 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1261 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1262 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1263 and Security Layer (SASL); @file{plstore.el} for secure storage of
1264 property lists; and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1265 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1268 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1269 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1270 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
1271 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
1272 @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an
1273 mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface
1274 for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
1278 Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a Web hotlist package.
1281 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1282 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1286 Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
1289 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1292 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1293 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1294 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1297 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1298 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1299 providing electric accent keys.
1302 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1305 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing C, C@t{++},
1306 and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen,
1307 and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for Emacs Lisp
1308 programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual pages;
1309 @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
1310 programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for
1311 lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting
1312 sections of mail messages and news articles.
1315 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1319 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1320 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1321 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1322 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1323 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1324 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1325 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1326 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1327 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1328 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1329 for use under MS-DOS.
1332 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.);
1333 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1334 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1335 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1336 from Jamie Zawinski.
1339 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1340 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1343 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1344 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1345 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1346 time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
1347 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1348 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1349 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1350 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1351 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.).
1354 Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
1355 finding the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) at point.
1358 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1361 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1362 making use of earlier work by James R. Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.
1363 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C. Honig also wrote various
1367 Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1368 merging two versions of a file.
1371 Francis J. Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1372 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1375 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1376 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
1377 guessing in CC mode.
1380 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1381 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1382 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1385 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1388 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1389 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1390 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1394 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1395 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1396 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1397 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1400 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1401 zone out in front of Emacs.
1404 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1405 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1406 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1407 @file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text,
1408 and also menus on text-mode terminals.
1411 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1412 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1413 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1414 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1415 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1419 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1422 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1423 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1424 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1425 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1426 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1427 other Gnus components.
1430 Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1433 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1436 Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1440 Ted Zlatanov (as well as his contributions to the Gnus newsreader)
1441 wrote an interface to the GnuTLS library, for secure network
1442 connections; and a futures facility for the URL library.
1445 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1446 with visual feedback.