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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; @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
-interface; 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
Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
-Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
+Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schäfer,
Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
ERC distribution).
Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
NeXTstep port of Emacs.
+@item
+Stephen Berman wrote @file{todo-mode.el} (based on the original version
+by Oliver Seidel), a package for maintaining @file{TODO} list files.
+
@item
Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
@item
-Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
-Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
+Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{opascal.el}, a mode for editing
+Object Pascal source code.
@item
Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
tabular data.
@item
-W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
+Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
changing the encoding of Polish characters.
@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
Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S. Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
-Piotr Zielinski, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
+Piotr Zieliński, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
@item
@item
Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
-folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
-for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
+folders have mail waiting in them.
@item
Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
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}).
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@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
Emacs.
@item
-Karel Klí@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
+Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
@item
program.
@item
-David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
+David Kågedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
@item
creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
@item
-Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
+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.
@item
Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
-@file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
-used in mail messages and news articles; and @file{terminal.el}, a
-terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses.
+and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
+used in mail messages and news articles.
@item
-Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
+Gerd Möllmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
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;
the status of version-controlled directories.
@item
-Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
+Hrvoje Nikšić wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
history between Emacs sessions.
@item
structures.
@item
-Francesco A. Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
+Francesco A. Potortì wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
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
@item
Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
-@file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
-support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
+@file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}).
@item
Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
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.
Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
-@item
-Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
-
@item
Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
Solitaire game.
@item
Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
-@item
-Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
-@file{TODO} list files.
-
@item
Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
as you type.
color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
@item
-Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
-maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
-@file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
+Sam Steingold wrote @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a
+command every midnight.
@item
Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
buffers.
@item
-Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
+Tibor Šimko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
editing text in Slovak language.
@item
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.