@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
Emacs.
@item
-Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{earcon.el}, a facility for sound effects
-for email and news messages, @file{footnote.el} which lets you 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.
@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-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.
@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
@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
@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
@item
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
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.
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,