@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@c
@node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top
-@chapter Acknowledgments
+@unnumbered Acknowledgments
Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
@c that many users would notice and consider important.
@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Per Abhiddenware wrote @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility
-for news articles.
-
@item
Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well as
@file{double.el} for typing accented characters not normally available
from the keyboard, @file{xt-mouse.el} which handles mouse commands
through Xterm, @file{gnus-cus.el} which implements customization
-commands for Gnus, and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of
+commands for Gnus, @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility
+for news articles and @file{cpp.el} which hides or highlights parts of
C programs according to preprocessor conditionals.
@item
-Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing ASCII
+Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing @acronym{ASCII}
art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
@item
Emacs.
@item
-Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{earcon.el}, a facility for sound effects
-for email and news messages, @file{footnote.el} which allows to include
+Steven L.@: Baur wrote
+@c If earcon.el actually works with Emacs 21, it isn't useful for lack
+@c of sound files. -- fx
+@c @file{earcon.el}, a facility for sound effects
+@c for email and news messages,
+@file{footnote.el} which lets you include
footnotes in email messages, and @file{gnus-audio.el} which provides
sound effects for Gnus.
@item
@file{locate.el} which interfaces to the @code{locate} command,
@item
-@file{find-lisp.el}, an emulation of the Unix @code{find} command in
-Emacs Lisp,
+@file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs Lisp emulation of the @code{find} program,
@item
@file{net-utils.el}, and
@item
@item
James Clark wrote @file{sgml-mode.el}, a mode for editing SGML
documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures.
-@file{sgml-mode.el} was later adapted by Eric Raymond, Daniel Pfeiffer,
-and Francesco Potorti.
@item
Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
text replace the current selection.
@item
-Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el},
+Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el},
@item
Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up
Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
@item
-John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files).
+John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode.
@item
Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}).
@item
Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
-the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@code{ASCII}
+the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition, and @file{latin-2.el}, code
which sets up case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-2
character set.
@item
Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
character sets, and wrote @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching
-non-ASCII text. Together with Naoto Takahashi, he wrote
-@file{quail.el}, a simple input facility for typing non-ASCII text from
-an ASCII keyboard. Ken'ichi also wrote @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font
-support for printing non-ASCII text on a PostScript printer.
+non-@acronym{ASCII} text. Together with Naoto Takahashi, he wrote
+@file{quail.el}, a simple input facility for typing non-@acronym{ASCII} text from
+an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard. Ken'ichi also wrote @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font
+support for printing non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer.
@item
Chris Hanson wrote @file{netuname.el}, a package to use HP-UX's Remote
@item
@file{emacsbug.el}, a package for reporting Emacs bugs,
@item
-@file{picture.el}, a mode for editing ASCII pictures, and
+@file{picture.el}, a mode for editing @acronym{ASCII} pictures, and
@item
@file{view.el}, a package for perusing files and buffers without editing
them.
@code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
@item
-Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to the MS-DOS operating system.
+Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
@item
Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
expansion package.
@item
-Kurt Hornik co-wrote Octave mode (@file{octave.el} and related files).
+Kurt Hornik co-wrote Octave mode.
@item
Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
@item
Simon Josefsson wrote @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting
-RFC2646 formatted text in messages, @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lips
-library for talking to IMAP servers, @file{nnimap}, the IMAP
-back-end for Gnus, nd @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication
-facility.
+RFC2646 formatted text in messages, @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp
+library for talking to IMAP servers, @file{nnimap}, the IMAP back-end
+for Gnus, @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility,
+and @file{fringe.el} a package for customizing the fringe.
@item
Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-8 and Latin-9
character sets,
@item
-@file{latin1-disp.el}, a package that allows to display ISO 8859
+@file{latin1-disp.el}, a package that lets you display ISO 8859
characters on Latin-1 terminals by setting up appropriate display
tables,
@item
Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package and @file{checkdoc.el}, a package
for checking doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs.
+@item
+Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode.
+
@item
Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
simple substitution ciphers.
Bengt Martensson, Mark Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, and Stefan
Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
bibliography files.
-
+
@item
Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
@file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
used in mail messages and news articles,
@item
-@file{terminal.el}, a terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses, and
+@file{terminal.el}, a terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses, and
@item
@file{yow.el}, an essential utility (try @kbd{M-x yow}).
@end itemize
@file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context diffs.
@end itemize
-@item
-Keith Moore wrote @file{aixcc.lex}, a pre-processor designed to help
-Emacs parse the error messages produced by the AIX C compiler.
-
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
elsewhere.
URLs.
@item
-Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions, and has tested daily
-the latest source code up to and including Emacs version 20. He also
-wrote @file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables,
+Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
+@file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables,
@file{latin-4.el} and @file{latin-5.el}, code which sets up
case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-4 and Latin-5
-character sets, @file{mailheader.el}, a pacakage for parsing email
+character sets, @file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email
headers, and @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
@item
@item
@file{emacstool.c}, support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun Windows,
@item
-@file{sun.el}, keybindings for sunterm keys,
+@file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys,
@item
-@file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and
+@file{sun-curs.el}, cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and
@item
@file{sun-fns.el} and @file{sun-mouse.el}, providing mouse support for
Sun Windows.
@item
Marko Rahamaa wrote @file{latin-3.el}, code which sets up
-case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-3 charact set.
+case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-3 character set.
@item
Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore.
@item
-Alex Rezinsky contributed @file{which-func.el}, a mode that prints the
+Alex Rezinsky contributed @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the
name of the current function in the mode line.
@item
@itemize @minus
@item
-@file{easymeny.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus,
+@file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus,
@item
@file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code,
@item
@item
Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
-C@t{++}, Objective-C, and Java code.
+C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
@item
Steve Strassman did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
buffers.
@item
-Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamzal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
+Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
editing text in Slovak language.
+@item
+Naoto Takahashi wrote @file{utf-8.el}, support for encoding and
+decoding UTF-8 data.
+
@item
Taichi Kawabata wrote support for Devanagari script and the Indian
languages.
@item
Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a major mode for
-editing Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpeter as an Emacs
+editing Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
subprocess.
@item
merging two versions of a file.
@item
-Francis J.@: Wright wrote @code{WoMan}, a package for browsing Unix
+Francis J.@: Wright wrote @code{WoMan}, a package for browsing
manual pages without the @code{man} command.
@item
a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode terminal.
@item
-Milan Zamzal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text,
+Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text,
@file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code which
uses illegible identifier names such as @code{cantReadThisVariable}, and
@file{tildify.el}, commands for adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and
@item
Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
with visual feedback.
+
@end itemize
Others too numerous to mention have reported and fixed bugs, and added
-features to many parts of Emacs. We thank them for their generosity as
-well.
+features to many parts of Emacs. (Many are mentioned in the
+@file{ChangeLog} files which are summarized in the file @file{AUTHORS}
+in the distribution.) We thank them for their generosity as well.
This list 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.
+
+@ignore
+ arch-tag: bb1d0fa4-0240-4992-b5d4-8602d1e3d4ba
+@end ignore