@c This is part of the Emacs manual. @c Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, @c 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @c @node Acknowledgments, Screen, Concept Index, Top @unnumbered Acknowledgments Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have written substantial portions. @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package, @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs @c that many users would notice and consider important. @itemize @bullet @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, @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 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys. @item Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el}, providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed files. @item Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and implemented support for X11. @item Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image files, @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode whereby the default value is shown in the minibuffer prompt only when appropriate, and @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons. @item David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by moving the mouse in particular patterns. @item Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for Emacs. @item 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 Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote @file{profile.el}, to time Emacs Lisp functions. @item Ray Blaak wrote @file{delphi.el}, a major mode for editing Delphi (Object Pascal) source code. @item Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el}, terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals. @item Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs buffer. @item Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot that learns landmarks. @item Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff} output. @item Peter Breton implemented: @itemize @minus @item @file{dirtrack} which does better tracking of directory changes in shell buffers, @item @file{filecache.el} which records which directories your files are in, @item @file{locate.el} which interfaces to the @code{locate} command, @item @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs Lisp emulation of the @code{find} program, @item @file{net-utils.el}, and @item the ``generic mode'' feature. @end itemize @item Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs. @item Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to Emacs's outline modes. @c @item @c Vincent Broman wrote @file{ada.el}, a mode for editing Ada code @c (since replaced by @file{ada-mode.el}). @item David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other tabular data. @item W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for changing the encoding of Polish characters. @item Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers. @item Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for manipulating object collections. @item Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for Emacs Lisp functions, and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs Lisp. @item Chris Chase and Carsten Dominik wrote @file{idlwave.el}, an editing mode for IDL and WAVE CL. @item Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el} and @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files; and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. @item Andrew Choi wrote the Macintosh support code, and contributed @file{mac-win.el}, support for the Mac window system. @item James Clark wrote @file{sgml-mode.el}, a mode for editing SGML documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures. @item Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor. @item Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that use it, Snake and Tetris. @item Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a package for easy definition of major and minor modes. @item Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}). @item Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler for compiled Emacs Lisp code. @item Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists. @item Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer. @item Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed text replace the current selection. @item Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el}, @item Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop. @item Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up labels and cross-references in La@TeX{} documents, and @file{org.el}, a mode for maintaining notes, todo lists, and project planning. @item Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses. @item Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical pong game. @item Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4. @item John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode. @item Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}). @item Stephen Eglen implemented @file{mspools.el}, for use with Procmail, which tells you which mail folders have mail waiting in them, and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature for incremental reading and completion of buffer names. @item Torbj@"orn Einarsson contributed the Fortran 90 mode (@file{f90.el}). @item Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets. @item Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87 code. @item Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a function's source code and preceding comment on the screen. @item Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data Language source code. @item Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to Morse code. @item Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface. @item Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files. @item Karl Fogel wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{bookmark.el}, for creating named placeholders, saving them and jumping to them later, @item @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing mail messages, and @item @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's location in files between editing sessions. @end itemize @item Gary Foster wrote @file{crisp.el}, the emulation for CRiSP and Brief editors, and @file{scroll-lock.el} (now @file{scroll-all.el}) a mode for scrolling several buffers together. @item Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin, @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or the doc string for the Lisp function near point. With Roland McGrath, he wrote @file{rsz-mini.el}, a minor mode to automatically resize the minibuffer to fit the text it contains. @item Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files. @item Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF flow control. @item Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system. @item Juan Le@'{o}n Lahoz Garc@'{i}a wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers. @item Howard Gayle wrote: @itemize @minus @item the C and lisp code for display tables and case tables, @item @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher, @item @file{case-table.el}, code to extend the character set and support case tables, @item much of the support for the ISO-8859 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el}, @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el}, @file{latin-1.el}, @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, @file{swedish.el}), and @item @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LED's on VT100-compatible terminals. @end itemize @item Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining last-change time stamps in files. @item Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for Gnus. @item David Gillespie wrote: @itemize @minus @item The Common Lisp compatibility packages, @item @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, @item @file{complete.el}, a partial completion mechanism, and @item @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing keyboard macros. @end itemize @item Bob Glickstein contributed the @file{sregex.el} feature, a facility for writing regexps using a Lisp-like syntax. @item Boris Goldowsky wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse cursor out of the way of the text cursor, @item @file{shadowfile.el}, a package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place, @item @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various formats, @item @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in files, and @item @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces. @end itemize @item Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file, taking the file name from the buffer. @item Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files. @item Kai Gro@ss{}johann wrote the Tramp package, which provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, and other network protocols. @item Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between 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 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files related to the currently visited file. @item Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation. @item Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international character sets, and wrote @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching 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 File Access facility from Emacs. @item K. Shane Hartman wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el}, packages for browsing command history lists, @item @file{electric.el} and @file{helper.el}, providing an alternative command loop and appropriate help facilities, @item @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for reporting Emacs bugs, @item @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. @end itemize @item John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el}, which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features. He also contributed @file{zone-mode.el}, a major mode for editing DNS zone files. @item Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation format of Unicode. @item Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}). @item Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits. @item 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. @item Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++} template instantiations. @item Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW browser to display a URL. @item Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and wrote many of its parts. @item Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support. @item Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support. @item Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs diary entries to and from the iCalendar format. @item Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game, and @file{mldrag.el}, a package which allows the user to resize windows by dragging mode lines and vertical window separators with the mouse. @item Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another. @item Simon Josefsson wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain Name System master files, @item @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text in messages, @item @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe, @item @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers, @item @file{nnimap}, the IMAP back-end for Gnus, and @item @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility. @end itemize @item Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out mail with SMTP. @item David Kaufman wrote @file{yow.c}, an essential utility program for the hopelessly pinheaded. @item Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff} version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting package. @item Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian languages. @item Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs buffers. @item Michael Kifer wrote @file{ediff.el}, an interactive interface to the @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs, and Viper, the newest emulation for VI. @item Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding parts of the file's name to the buffer name. @c We're not using his backquote.el any more. @item Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a major mode for editing PostScript files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within Emacs. @item Pavel Kobiakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing on-the-fly syntax checking. @item Larry K.@: Kolodney wrote @file{cvtmail.c}, a program to convert the mail directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format. @item David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text. @item Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iinline.el}, a minor mode for displaying inline images. @item Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up menu support. @item Sebastian Kremer wrote Emacs 19's @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence R.@: Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the @code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard program. @item Geoff Kuenning wrote Emacs 19's @file{ispell.el}, based on work by Ken Stevens and others. @item David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions. @item Daniel LaLiberte wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp, @item @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug} debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support, @item @file{cust-print.el}, a customizable package for printing lisp objects, @item @file{eval-reg.el}, a re-implementation of @code{eval-region} in Emacs Lisp, and @item @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. @end itemize @item James R.@: Larus wrote @file{mh-e.el}, an interface to the MH mail system. @item Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as: @itemize @minus @item @code{ps-print}, a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers, @item @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns, @item @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer. @end itemize @item Frederic Lepied contributed @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev mechanism for inserting programming constructs. @item Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for Emacs Lisp programs. @item Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus for buffer selection, and rewrote @file{dabbrev.el}. @item Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk; @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++} constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows that show the same buffer. @item Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of files. @item Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems, including those in @file{code-pages.el} and the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote: @itemize @minus @item @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply prefix arguments, and @code{autoarg-kp-mode} which redefines the keypad numeric keys to digit arguments, @item @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing Autoconf @file{configure.in} files, @item @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files, @item @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text, such as copyright notices, from file headers, @item @file{hl-line.el}, a package that provides a minor mode for highlighting the line in the current window on which point is, @item @file{latin-8.el} and @file{latin-9.el}, code which sets up case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-8 and Latin-9 character sets, @item @file{latin1-disp.el}, a package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals by setting up appropriate display tables, @item @file{python.el}, a major mode for the Python programming language. @item @file{refill.el}, a mode for automatic paragraph refilling, akin to typical word processors, @item @file{smiley-ems.el}, a facility for displaying smiley faces, and @item @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control the display of the Emacs tool bar. @end itemize @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. @item Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files generated by Edward M.@: Reingold's @code{calendar} package. @item Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental completion feedback in the minibuffer. @item Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code. @item Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses. @item Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular expression from a list of strings. He also extended @file{comint.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers. @item 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. @item Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional blackbox game. @item Roland McGrath wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{compile.el}, a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then visiting the locations reported in error messages, @item @file{etags.el}, a package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file, @item @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program, with Sebastian Kremer, @item @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker, @item @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload files, and @item @file{upd-copyr.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of copyright notices in source code. @end itemize @item David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major modes. @item Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding command with its arguments. @item Wayne Mesard wrote @file{hscroll.el} which does horizontal scrolling automatically. @item Brad Miller wrote @file{gnus-gl.el}, a Gnus interface for GroupLens. @item Richard Mlynarik wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting Common Lisp code, @item @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for buffer listings, @item @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens, @item @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 @item @file{yow.el}, an essential utility (try @kbd{M-x yow}). @end itemize @item Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote: @itemize @minus @item the new display engine for Emacs 21, @item the asynchronous timers facility (@file{atimer.c}), @item the @code{ebrowse} C@t{++} browser, @item @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode, @item @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips, and @item @file{authors.el} package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} files. @end itemize @item Stefan Monnier added support for Arch, Subversion, and Meta-CVS to VC, and re-wrote much of the Emacs server to use the built-in networking primitives. He also wrote: @itemize @minus @item @code{PCL-CVS}, a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system, @item @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible text, @item @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3} conflicts, and @item @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context diffs. @end itemize @item Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and elsewhere. @item Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:} URLs. @item 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 package for parsing email headers, and @file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings. @item Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{makefile.el} (now @file{make-mode.el}), a mode for editing makefiles. @item Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor mode for selectively displaying blocks of text. @item Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text, and @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh} and @code{winterm} terminal emulators. @item Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation. @item Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer. @item Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP support. @item Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail splitting mechanism. @item Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing embedded text-based tables. @item Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for the MIX assembly language. @item David Pearson contributed @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a game to fill all squares on the field. @item Jeff Peck wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{emacstool.c}, support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun Windows, @item @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys, @item @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. @end itemize @item Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle. @item William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el}, a MIME media types configuration facility, @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels, and the URL package. @item Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus. @item Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable. @item Daniel Pfeiffer wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{conf-mode.el}, a major mode for editing configuration files, @item @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating copyright notices in files, @item @file{executable.el}, a package for executing interpreter scripts, @item @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing shell scripts, @item @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for writing statement skeletons, and @item @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode for simultaneous two-column editing. @end itemize Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el}, originally written by Joe Wells, and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el}, support for Wyse 50 terminals. @item Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC 1460) interface for Emacs. @item Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit widgets. @item Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation. @item David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar, and @file{ruler-mode.el}, a minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line. @item Francesco A.@: Potorti 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. @item Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode for editing FORTRAN code. @c We're not distributing his tex-mode.el anymore; we're using Ed Reingold's. @item Mukesh Prasad contributed @file{vmsproc.el}, a facility for running asynchronous subprocesses on VMS. @item Marko Rahamaa wrote @file{latin-3.el}, code which sets up 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 bibliography files by keyword. @item Eric S.@: Raymond wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert, @item @file{gud.el}, a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in Emacs, @item @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code, @item @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards, @item @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}, @item @file{finder.el}, a package for finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic, @item @file{keyswap.el}, code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys, @item @file{loadhist.el}, functions for loading and unloading Emacs features, @item @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers used in Emacs Lisp library files, and @item code to set and make use of the @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came. @end itemize @item Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support (try @kbd{M-x calendar}), with contributions from Stewart Clamen, Nachum Dershowitz, Paul Eggert, Steve Fisk, Michael Kifer, and Lara Rios. Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold has also contributed to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as have William F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore. @item Alex Rezinsky contributed @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name of the current function in the mode line. @item Rob Riepel contributed @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. @item Nick Roberts wrote @file{gdb-ui.el}, the graphical user interface to GDB. @item Roland B.@: Roberts contributed much of the VMS support distributed with Emacs 19, along with Joseph M.@: Kelsey, and @file{vms-pmail.el}, support for using Emacs within VMS MAIL. @item John Robinson wrote @file{bg-mouse.el}, support for the mouse on the BBN Bitgraph terminal. @item Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text into ``handwriting.'' @item William Rosenblatt wrote @file{float.el}, implementing a floating-point numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers. @item Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer. @item Ivar Rummelhoff provided @file{winner.el}, which records recent window configurations so you can move back to them. @item Jason Rumney has ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs. @item Wolfgang Rupprecht contributed 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. @item Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking references in Info files. @item 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. @item William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet} sessions within Emacs. @item Ralph Schleicher contributed @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer. @item Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson. @item Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game. @item Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played against Emacs, and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle. @item Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an Emacs Lisp implementation of the Solitaire game. @item Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces, and @file{sql.el}, a package for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer. @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 contributed the Flyspell package that does spell checking as you type. @item Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting windows based on their geometrical position on the frame. @item Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited commercial email. @item Richard Sharman contributed @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show recent editing changes. @item Olin Shivers wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running interactive command-line- oriented subprocesses, @item @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes, @item @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process, and @item @file{shell.el}, for running inferior shells. @end itemize @item Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code. @item Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating mostly-constant data. @item Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive help for key bindings. @item Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code. @item David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs Lisp interpreter as a subprocess. @item Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}. @item William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files to an extant Emacs job to be edited. @item Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends. @item Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for selecting regions to follow many other systems. @item Richard Stallman invented Emacs, and then wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus, @item @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code, @item @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in color, and @item most of the rest of Emacs code. @end itemize @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. @item Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for browsing indices made from buffer contents. @item Peter Stephenson contributed @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text. @item Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains that package since Ispell 3.1 release. @item Jonathan Stigelman wrote @file{hilit19.el}, a package providing automatic highlighting in source code buffers, mail readers, and other contexts. @item Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine, process support, and networking support. He also wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data. @item @file{cua.el}, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key bindings. @item @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files quickly. @item @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility. @end itemize @item Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C, 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 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. @item Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs buffers. @item 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 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing image files as ``thumbnails''. @item Jens T.@: Berger Thielemann wrote @file{word-help.el}, which is part of the basis for @file{info-look.el}. @item Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping support. @item Jim Thompson wrote @file{ps-print.el}, which converts Emacs text to Postscript. @item Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a major mode for editing Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs subprocess. @item Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer Security protocol. @item Masanobu Umeda wrote: @itemize @minus @item GNUS, a feature-full reader for Usenet news, @item @file{prolog.el}, a mode for editing Prolog code, @item @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders, @item @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program, @item @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus, @item @file{gnus-mh.el}, an mh-e interface for Gnus, @item @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface for Gnus, @item @file{tcp.el}, emulation of the @code{open-network-stream} function for some Emacs configurations which lack it, and @item @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with time zones. @end itemize @item Rajesh Vaidheeswarran wrote @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess whitespace in a file. @item Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package. @item Didier Verna contributed @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for operations on rectangle regions of text. @item Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code. @item Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions. @item Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for filling in forms. @item Colin Walters wrote @file{ibuffer.el}, a Dired-like major mode for operating on buffers. @item Barry Warsaw wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{assoc.el}, a set of utility functions for working with association lists, @item @file{cc-mode.el}, a major mode for editing C, C@t{++}, and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen, and Richard Stallman, @item @file{elp.el}, a new profiler for Emacs Lisp programs. @item @file{man.el}, a mode for reading UNIX manual pages, @item @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp programs, @item @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for lisp packages, and @item @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting sections of mail messages and news articles. @end itemize @item Morten Welinder introduced face support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs, and also wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between sessions, @item @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level support code, @item @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support, @item @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS port of Emacs, @item @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed archives, @item @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using the shift key and motion commands, and @item @file{dos-fns.el}, functions for use under MS-DOS. @end itemize He also helped port Emacs to MS-DOS. @item Joseph Brian Wells wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{apropos.el}, a command to find commands, functions, and variables whose names contain matches for a regular expression, @item @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after resuming a suspended Emacs job, and @item @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions from Jamie Zawinski. @end itemize @item Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major mode for editing VHDL source code. @item John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text according to regular-expression based rules; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of time spent on projects; @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp. @item Ed Wilkinson wrote @file{b2m.c}, a program to convert mail files from RMAIL format to Unix @code{mbox} format. @item Mike Williams wrote @file{mouse-sel.el}, providing enhanced mouse selection, and @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for finding the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) containing point. @item Bill Wohler wrote the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. @item Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively merging two versions of a file. @item Francis J.@: Wright wrote @code{WoMan}, a package for browsing manual pages without the @code{man} command. @item Tom Wurgler wrote @file{emacs-lock.el}, which makes it harder to exit with valuable buffers unsaved. @item Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU linker scripts. @item Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code, and the SES spreadsheet package. @item Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson contributed @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode terminal. @item 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 SGML/HTML files. @item Victor Zandy contributed @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to zone out in front of Emacs. @item Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors, and (together with Kenichi Handa) @file{codepage.el}, a package for editing text encoded in DOS/Windows code pages. @item Jamie Zawinski wrote: @itemize @minus @item Emacs 19's optimizing byte compiler, with Hallvard Furuseth, @item much of the support for faces and X selections, @item @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package providing automatic expansion of mail aliases, and @item @file{tar-mode.el}, providing simple viewing and editing commands for tar files. @end itemize @item Shenghuo Zhu wrote: @itemize @minus @item @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing binhex files, @item @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME messages, @item @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package, @item @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data, @item @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. @end itemize @item Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}. @item Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the VI text editor. @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. (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