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@node Acknowledgments
This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
-please report that as a manual bug. More comprehensive information is
+please make a bug report. More comprehensive information is
available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
@file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
@item
Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
-Avahi services;
-and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
-storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
-provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
-other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
-@file{tramp-cache.el}.
+Avahi services; @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
+storing confidential data; and @file{filenotify.el} and the associated
+low-level interface routines, for watching file status changes.
+He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which provides
+transparent remote file editing using ssh, ftp, and other network
+protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote @file{tramp-cache.el}.
@item
Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
@item
Juanma Barranquero wrote @file{emacs-lock.el} (based on the original
version by Tom Wurgler), which makes it harder to exit with valuable
-buffers unsaved. He also made many other contributions to other
+buffers unsaved; and @file{frameset.el}, for saving and restoring the
+frame/window setup. He also made many other contributions to other
areas, including MS Windows support.
@item
@item
Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
-prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
+prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS. Yamamoto Mitsuharu continued to
+contribute to Mac OS support in the newer Nextstep port; and also
+improved support for multi-monitor displays.
@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3. He made many
location in files between editing sessions.
@item
-Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
-editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
+Gary Foster wrote @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
together.
+@item
+Romain Francoise contributed ACL (Access Control List) support,
+for preserving extended file attributes on backup and copy.
+
@item
Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
@file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
@file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
-and implemented libxml2 support.
+and implemented libxml2 support. He also wrote @file{eww.el},
+an Emacs Lisp web browser; and implemented native zlib decompression.
Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
-Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi
-Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
+Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Jan Tatarik, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis,
+Katsumi Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
Gnus Manual}).
@item
@item
Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
@command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
-Viper, another emulator of the VI editor.
+Viper, an emulator of the VI editor.
@item
Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
+@item
+Leo Liu wrote @file{pcmpl-x.el}, providing completion for
+miscellaneous external tools; and revamped support for Octave in Emacs 24.4.
+
@item
Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
-functions at runtime), and added generalized variables to core Emacs
-Lisp.
+functions at runtime), added generalized variables to core Emacs
+Lisp, and implemented a new lightweight advice mechanism.
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
-@item
-Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
-
@item
Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
of the current function in the mode line.
@item
-Rob Riepel wrote @file{tpu-edt.el} and its associated files, providing
-an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the VMS EDT editor,
-and @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control functions for the DEC
-VT line of terminals.
+Rob Riepel wrote @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control
+functions for the DEC VT line of terminals.
@item
Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
DSSSL code.
@item
-Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24.
+Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24;
+and implemented ``pixel-wise'' resizing of windows and frames.
@item
Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
dynamic word completion.
-@item
-Masahiko Sato wrote @file{vip.el}, an emulation of the VI editor.
-
@item
Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
message signatures.
Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
-@file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text.
+@file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text,
+and also menus on text-mode terminals.
@item
Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.