1 @c -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
2 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
3 @c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
7 @unnumbered Acknowledgments
9 Many people have contributed code included in the Free Software
10 Foundation's distribution of GNU Emacs. To show our appreciation for
11 their public spirit, we list here in alphabetical order those who have
12 written substantial portions. Others too numerous to mention have
13 reported and fixed bugs, and added features to many parts of Emacs.
14 We thank them for their generosity as well.
16 This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
17 feature we currently distribute; if you know of someone we have omitted,
18 please make a bug report. More comprehensive information is
19 available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
20 @file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
22 @c We should list here anyone who has contributed a new package,
23 @c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
24 @c that many users would notice and consider important.
25 @c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
26 @c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
27 @c emacs.texi is used.
31 Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
32 @file{double.el}, for typing accented characters not normally available
33 from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
34 through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
35 commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
36 news articles; @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
37 which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
38 conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
39 @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
43 Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
44 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
47 Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
48 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
52 Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
53 D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
54 Avahi services; @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
55 storing confidential data; and @file{filenotify.el} and the associated
56 low-level interface routines, for watching file status changes.
57 He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which provides
58 transparent remote file editing using ssh, ftp, and other network
59 protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote @file{tramp-cache.el}.
62 Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
63 point vertically fixed by scrolling the window when moving up and down
67 Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
68 implemented support for X11.
71 Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
72 a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
75 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
76 files; @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode that hides the minibuffer
77 default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
78 @code{read-file-name} input; @file{mb-depth.el}, display of minibuffer
79 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
80 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
81 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. He
82 also worked on an early version of the lexical binding code.
85 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
86 moving the mouse in particular patterns.
89 Juanma Barranquero wrote @file{emacs-lock.el} (based on the original
90 version by Tom Wurgler), which makes it harder to exit with valuable
91 buffers unsaved; and @file{frameset.el}, for saving and restoring the
92 frame/window setup. He also made many other contributions to other
93 areas, including MS Windows support.
96 Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
100 Steven L. Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
101 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
102 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus. He also wrote
103 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
106 Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
107 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
108 Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schäfer,
109 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
110 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
114 Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
115 Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
116 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
119 Stephen Berman wrote @file{todo-mode.el} (based on the original version
120 by Oliver Seidel), a package for maintaining @file{TODO} list files.
123 Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
126 Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{opascal.el}, a mode for editing
127 Object Pascal source code.
130 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
131 mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
134 Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
135 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
136 frame support and multi-face support. Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
137 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
138 @file{wyse50.el} (q.v.).
141 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
145 Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
146 that learns landmarks.
149 Frank Bresz wrote @file{diff.el}, a program to display @code{diff}
153 Peter Breton implemented @file{dirtrack.el}, a library for tracking
154 directory changes in shell buffers; @file{filecache.el}, which records
155 which directories your files are in; @file{locate.el}, which
156 interfaces to the @code{locate} command; @file{find-lisp.el}, an Emacs
157 Lisp emulation of the @command{find} program; @file{net-utils.el}; and
158 the ``generic mode'' feature.
161 Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
162 @file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
163 co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
166 Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
167 Emacs's outline modes.
170 David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
174 Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
175 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
178 Bill Carpenter provided @file{feedmail.el}, a package for massaging
179 outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular mailers.
182 Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote @file{ewoc.el}, an Emacs widget for
183 manipulating object collections. Per Cederqvist, Inge Wallin, and
184 Thomas Bellman wrote @file{avl-tree.el}, for balanced binary trees.
187 Hans Chalupsky wrote @file{advice.el}, an overloading mechanism for
188 Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
192 Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J. D. Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
193 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
196 Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
197 @file{makeinfo.el}, modes and utilities for working with Texinfo files;
198 and @file{page-ext.el}, commands for extended page handling. He also
199 wrote the ``Introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp'' manual.
202 Jihyun Cho wrote @file{hanja-util.el} and @file{hangul.el}, utilities
206 Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
207 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS. Yamamoto Mitsuharu continued to
208 contribute to Mac OS support in the newer Nextstep port; and also
209 improved support for multi-monitor displays.
212 Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3. He made many
213 improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
214 @file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
215 and improved support for themes and packages.
218 James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
219 nXML mode, a mode for editing XML documents. He also contributed to
220 Emacs's dumping procedures.
223 Mike Clarkson wrote @file{edt.el}, an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.
226 Glynn Clements provided @file{gamegrid.el} and a couple of games that
227 use it, Snake and Tetris.
230 Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
231 it is analyzed for spam.
234 Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
235 generating JSON files.
238 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
239 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
242 Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (@file{m4-mode.el}).
245 Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote @file{disass.el}, a disassembler
246 for compiled Emacs Lisp code.
249 Mathias Dahl wrote @file{image-dired.el}, a package for viewing image
250 files as ``thumbnails''.
253 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
254 (@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
255 and @file{color.el}, a library for general color manipulation.
256 He also made various contributions to Gnus.
259 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
263 Matthieu Devin wrote @file{delsel.el}, a package to make newly-typed
264 text replace the current selection.
267 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
270 Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
271 He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
274 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
275 cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
276 (q.v.). He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
277 todo lists, and project planning. Bastien Guerry subsequently took
278 over maintainership. Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
279 Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S. Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
280 Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
281 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
282 Piotr Zieliński, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
283 For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
286 Scott Draves wrote @file{tq.el}, help functions for maintaining
287 transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.
290 Benjamin Drieu wrote @file{pong.el}, an implementation of the classical
294 Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
297 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
300 Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
303 Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
304 other portability fixes to the C code; as well as his contributions
305 to VC and the calendar.
308 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
309 folders have mail waiting in them.
312 Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
315 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
318 David Engster wrote @file{mairix.el} and @file{nnmairix.el}, an
319 interface to the Mairix indexing tool.
322 Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote @file{simula.el}, a mode for editing SIMULA 87
326 Michael Ernst wrote @file{reposition.el}, a command for recentering a
327 function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.
330 Ata Etemadi wrote @file{cdl.el}, functions for working with Common Data
331 Language source code.
334 Frederick Farnbach implemented @file{morse.el}, which converts text to
338 Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, which
339 is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI, or BBDB; and
340 @file{ldap.el}, the LDAP client interface.
343 Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.
346 Karl Fogel wrote @file{bookmark.el}, which implements named
347 placeholders; @file{mail-hist.el}, a history mechanism for outgoing
348 mail messages; and @file{saveplace.el}, for preserving point's
349 location in files between editing sessions.
352 Gary Foster wrote @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
356 Romain Francoise contributed ACL (Access Control List) support,
357 for preserving extended file attributes on backup and copy.
360 Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
361 @file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
362 typing, and @code{eldoc-mode}, a mode to show the defined parameters or
363 the doc string for the Lisp function near point.
366 Shigeru Fukaya wrote a testsuite for the byte-compiler.
369 Keith Gabryelski wrote @file{hexl.el}, a mode for editing binary files.
372 Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
373 @file{flow-ctrl.el}, a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
377 Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
378 Python programming language used in Emacs 24.3 onwards.
381 Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
382 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
385 Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
386 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
389 Howard Gayle wrote much of the C and Lisp code for display tables and
390 case tables. He also wrote @file{rot13.el}, a command to display the
391 plain-text form of a buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher;
392 @file{vt100-led.el}, a package for controlling the LEDs on
393 VT100-compatible terminals; and much of the support for ISO-8859
394 European character sets (which includes @file{iso-ascii.el},
395 @file{iso-insert.el}, @file{iso-swed.el},
396 @file{iso-syntax.el}, @file{iso-transl.el}, and @file{swedish.el}).
399 Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
400 contributions for @file{time-stamp.el}, a package for maintaining
401 last-change time stamps in files.
404 Julien Gilles wrote @file{gnus-ml.el}, a mailing list minor mode for
408 David Gillespie wrote the Common Lisp compatibility packages;
409 @code{Calc}, an advanced calculator and mathematical tool, since
410 maintained and developed by Jay Belanger; @file{complete.el}, a partial
411 completion mechanism; and @file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing
415 Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
416 using a Lisp-like syntax.
419 Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
420 cursor out of the way of the text cursor; @file{shadowfile.el}, a
421 package for keeping identical copies of files in more than one place;
422 @file{format.el}, a package for reading and writing files in various
423 formats; @file{enriched.el}, a package for saving text properties in
424 files; @file{facemenu.el}, a package for specifying faces; and
425 @file{descr-text.el}, describing text and character properties.
428 Michelangelo Grigni wrote @file{ffap.el} which visits a file,
429 taking the file name from the buffer.
432 Odd Gripenstam wrote @file{dcl-mode.el} for editing DCL command files.
435 Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
436 the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-@acronym{ASCII}
437 characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
440 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
441 as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.).
444 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
445 related to the currently visited file.
448 Doug Gwyn wrote the portable @code{alloca} implementation.
451 Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
452 character sets, and wrote most of the Emacs 23 font handling code. He
453 also wrote @file{composite.el}, which provides a minor mode that
454 composes characters automatically when they are displayed;
455 @file{isearch-x.el}, a facility for searching non-@acronym{ASCII}
456 text; and @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font support for printing
457 non-@acronym{ASCII} text on a PostScript printer. Together with Naoto
458 Takahashi, he wrote @file{quail.el}, an input facility for typing
459 non-@acronym{ASCII} text from an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.
462 Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
465 Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
468 K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
469 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
470 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
471 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
472 reporting Emacs bugs; @file{picture.el}, a mode for editing
473 @acronym{ASCII} pictures; and @file{view.el}, a package for perusing
474 files and buffers without editing them.
477 John Heidemann wrote @file{mouse-copy.el} and @file{mouse-drag.el},
478 which provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
481 Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
485 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
486 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
487 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
490 Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.
493 Anders Holst wrote @file{hippie-exp.el}, a versatile completion and
497 Tassilo Horn wrote DocView mode, allowing viewing of PDF, PostScript and
501 Tom Houlder wrote @file{mantemp.el}, which generates manual C@t{++}
502 template instantiations.
505 Joakim Hove wrote @file{html2text.el}, a html to plain text converter.
508 Denis Howe wrote @file{browse-url.el}, a package for invoking a WWW
509 browser to display a URL.
512 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
513 wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
514 Emacs, including: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
515 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
516 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
517 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
518 He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
519 @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
520 and implemented libxml2 support. He also wrote @file{eww.el},
521 an Emacs Lisp web browser; and implemented native zlib decompression.
522 Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
523 Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
524 Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
525 Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
526 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Jan Tatarik, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis,
527 Katsumi Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
531 Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
534 Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.
537 Philip Jackson wrote @file{find-cmd.el}, to build a @code{find}
541 Ulf Jasper wrote @file{icalendar.el}, a package for converting Emacs
542 diary entries to and from the iCalendar format;
543 @file{newsticker.el}, an RSS and Atom based Newsticker; and
544 @file{bubbles.el}, a puzzle game.
547 Kyle Jones wrote @file{life.el}, a package to play Conway's ``life'' game.
550 Terry Jones wrote @file{shadow.el}, a package for finding potential
551 load-path problems when some Lisp file ``shadows'' another.
554 Simon Josefsson wrote @file{dns-mode.el}, an editing mode for Domain
555 Name System master files; @file{dig.el}, a Domain Name System interface;
556 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting RFC2646 formatted text
557 in messages; @file{fringe.el}, a package for customizing the fringe;
558 @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp library for talking to IMAP servers;
559 @file{password-cache.el}, a password reader; @file{nnimap.el}, the IMAP
560 back-end for Gnus; @file{url-imap.el} for the URL library;
561 @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility; the Gnus
562 S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
563 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
566 Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
567 automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
570 Alexandre Julliard wrote @file{vc-git.el}, support for the Git version
574 Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
578 Ivan Kanis wrote @file{vc-hg.el}, support for the Mercurial version
582 Henry Kautz wrote @file{bib-mode.el}, a mode for maintaining
583 bibliography databases compatible with @code{refer} (the @code{troff}
584 version) and @code{lookbib}, and @file{refbib.el}, a package to convert
585 those databases to the format used by the @LaTeX{} text formatting package.
588 Taichi Kawabata added support for Devanagari script and the Indian
589 languages, and wrote @file{ucs-normalize.el} for Unicode normalization.
592 Taro Kawagishi implemented the MD4 Message Digest Algorithm in Lisp; and
593 wrote @file{ntlm.el} and @file{sasl-ntlm.el} for NT LanManager
594 authentication support.
597 Howard Kaye wrote @file{sort.el}, commands to sort text in Emacs
601 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
602 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
603 Viper, an emulator of the VI editor.
606 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
607 @file{filelock.c}, which provide simple support for multiple users
608 editing the same file. He also wrote the initial version of
609 @file{uniquify.el}, a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
610 parts of the file's name to the buffer name.
613 Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
614 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
618 Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
619 Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
622 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
623 strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
626 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
627 on-the-fly syntax checking.
630 David M. Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
631 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
634 Koseki Yoshinori wrote @file{iimage.el}, a minor mode for displaying
638 Robert Krawitz wrote the original @file{xmenu.c}, part of Emacs's pop-up
642 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
643 R. Dodd. He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
644 @code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
648 David Kågedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
649 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
652 Igor Kuzmin wrote @file{cconv.el}, providing closure conversion for
653 statically scoped Emacs lisp.
656 Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
657 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
658 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; and
659 @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode. He also
660 co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.).
663 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
667 Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
668 @code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
669 a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
670 @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
671 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
672 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
673 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
674 whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
677 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
678 mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
681 Peter Liljenberg wrote @file{elint.el}, a Lint-style code checker for
685 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
686 for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.); and rewrote
687 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
690 Anders Lindgren wrote @file{autorevert.el}, a package for automatically
691 reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
692 @file{cwarn.el}, a package to highlight suspicious C and C@t{++}
693 constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
694 that show the same buffer.
697 Thomas Link wrote @file{filesets.el}, a package for handling sets of
701 Juri Linkov wrote @file{misearch.el}, extending isearch to multi-buffer
702 searches; the code in @file{files-x.el} for handling file- and
703 directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
704 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
707 Leo Liu wrote @file{pcmpl-x.el}, providing completion for
708 miscellaneous external tools; and revamped support for Octave in Emacs 24.4.
711 Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
712 Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
715 Martin Lorentzon wrote @file{vc-annotate.el}, support for version
719 Dave Love wrote much of the code dealing with Unicode support and
720 Latin-N unification. He added support for many coding systems,
721 including the various UTF-7 and UTF-16 coding systems. He also wrote
722 @code{autoarg-mode}, a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
723 prefix arguments; @code{autoarg-kp-mode}, which redefines the keypad
724 numeric keys to digit arguments; @file{autoconf.el}, a mode for editing
725 Autoconf files; @file{cfengine.el}, a mode for editing Cfengine files;
726 @file{elide-head.el}, a package for eliding boilerplate text from file
727 headers; @file{hl-line.el}, a minor mode for highlighting the line in
728 the current window on which point is; @file{cap-words.el}, a minor mode
729 for motion in ``CapitalizedWordIdentifiers''; @file{latin1-disp.el}, a
730 package that lets you display ISO 8859 characters on Latin-1 terminals
731 by setting up appropriate display tables; the version of
732 @file{python.el} used prior to Emacs 24.3; @file{smiley.el}, a
733 facility for displaying smiley faces; @file{sym-comp.el}, a library
734 for performing mode-dependent symbol completion; @file{benchmark.el}
735 for timing code execution; and @file{tool-bar.el}, a mode to control
736 the display of the Emacs tool bar. With Riccardo Murri he wrote
737 @file{vc-bzr.el}, support for the Bazaar version control system.
740 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
741 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
742 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
743 place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc.; and
744 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
745 package. He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
746 Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
747 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
750 Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
751 Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
752 visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
753 package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
754 in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
755 Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
756 from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
757 @code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
758 question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
759 maintenance of autoload files.
762 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
763 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
766 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
769 Christopher J. Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
770 simple substitution ciphers.
773 Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
774 appointments. It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
775 used by the @code{calendar} package.
778 Ken Manheimer wrote @file{allout.el}, a mode for manipulating and
779 formatting outlines, and @file{icomplete.el}, which provides incremental
780 completion feedback in the minibuffer.
783 Bill Mann wrote @file{perl-mode.el}, a mode for editing Perl code.
786 Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{hideif.el}, support for
787 hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
790 Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
791 expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
792 font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
793 @file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
796 Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
797 and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
801 Charlie Martin wrote @file{autoinsert.el}, which provides automatic
802 mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
805 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
808 Tomohiro Matsuyama wrote the native Elisp profiler.
811 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
815 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
816 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
820 Will Mengarini wrote @file{repeat.el}, a command to repeat the preceding
821 command with its arguments.
824 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
825 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
826 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
827 and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
828 used in mail messages and news articles.
831 Gerd Möllmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
832 development until the release of 21.1. He wrote the new display
833 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
834 facility. He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
835 @file{jit-lock.el}, the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode;
836 @file{tooltip.el}, a package for displaying tooltips;
837 @file{authors.el}, a package for maintaining the @file{AUTHORS} file;
838 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
841 Stefan Monnier was the Emacs (co-)maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards. He added
842 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
843 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
844 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23. He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
845 a directory-level front end to the CVS version control system;
846 @file{reveal.el}, a minor mode for automatically revealing invisible
847 text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
848 conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
849 diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
850 @file{bibtex-style.el} for Bib@TeX{} Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
851 client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; @file{smie.el}, a generic
852 indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
853 matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
854 cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
855 functions at runtime), added generalized variables to core Emacs
856 Lisp, and implemented a new lightweight advice mechanism.
859 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
863 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
864 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
868 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
869 @file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
870 @file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
871 @file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
874 Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.), and wrote
875 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
878 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
879 a mode for editing makefiles.
882 Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
883 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
886 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
887 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
888 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
889 and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
890 the status of version-controlled directories.
893 Hrvoje Nikšić wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
894 history between Emacs sessions.
897 Jeff Norden wrote @file{kermit.el}, a package to help the Kermit
898 dialup communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.
901 Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
905 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
908 Christian Ohler wrote @file{ert.el}, a library for automated regression
912 Alexandre Oliva wrote @file{gnus-mlspl.el}, a group params-based mail
916 Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
917 embedded text-based tables.
920 Pieter E. J. Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
921 the MIX assembly language.
924 David Pearson wrote @file{quickurl.el}, a simple method of inserting a
925 URL into the current buffer based on text at point; @file{5x5.el}, a
926 game to fill all squares on the field.
929 Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys.
932 Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
933 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
936 William M. Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
937 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
938 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
939 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
943 Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
946 Jens Petersen wrote @file{find-func.el}, which makes it easy to find
947 the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.
950 Daniel Pfeiffer wrote @file{conf-mode.el}, a mode for editing
951 configuration files; @file{copyright.el}, a package for updating
952 copyright notices in files; @file{executable.el}, a package for
953 executing interpreter scripts; @file{sh-script.el}, a mode for editing
954 shell scripts; @file{skeleton.el}, implementing a concise language for
955 writing statement skeletons; and @file{two-column.el}, a minor mode
956 for simultaneous two-column editing.
958 Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
959 for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
960 expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
961 support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
962 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
965 Richard L. Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
966 1460) interface for Emacs.
969 Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
973 François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
974 support for PO translation files.
977 Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
978 Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
981 David Ponce wrote @file{recentf.el}, a package that puts a menu of
982 recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar; @file{ruler-mode.el}, a
983 minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
984 @file{tree-widget.el}, a package to display hierarchical data
988 Francesco A. Potortì wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
989 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
990 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
993 Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
994 for editing Fortran code.
997 Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
998 bibliography files by keyword.
1001 Eric S. Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
1002 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
1003 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
1004 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
1005 @file{AT386.el}, terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards;
1006 @file{cookie1.el}, support for ``fortune-cookie'' programs like
1007 @file{yow.el} and @file{spook.el}; @file{finder.el}, a package for
1008 finding Emacs Lisp packages by keyword and topic; @file{keyswap.el},
1009 code to swap the @key{BS} and @key{DEL} keys; @file{loadhist.el},
1010 functions for loading and unloading Emacs features;
1011 @file{lisp-mnt.el}, functions for working with the special headers
1012 used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
1013 @code{load-history} lisp variable, which records the source file from
1014 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
1017 Edward M. Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
1018 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
1019 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
1020 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
1021 Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B. Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
1022 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
1023 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
1024 F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
1028 David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
1029 system's designated mail client.
1032 Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
1033 of the current function in the mode line.
1036 Rob Riepel wrote @file{vt-control.el}, providing some control
1037 functions for the DEC VT line of terminals.
1040 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
1041 terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB@.
1042 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
1046 Danny Roozendaal implemented @file{handwrite.el}, which converts text
1047 into ``handwriting''.
1050 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
1053 Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
1057 Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24;
1058 and implemented ``pixel-wise'' resizing of windows and frames.
1061 Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
1062 configurations so you can move back to them.
1065 Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
1066 contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
1069 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
1070 @file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}).
1073 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
1074 references in Info files.
1077 James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
1078 dynamic word completion.
1081 Holger Schauer wrote @file{fortune.el}, a package for using fortune in
1085 William Schelter wrote @file{telnet.el}, support for @code{telnet}
1086 sessions within Emacs.
1089 Ralph Schleicher wrote @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
1090 laptop computer battery status, and @file{info-look.el}, a package for
1091 looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.
1094 Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
1095 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
1098 Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
1101 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
1102 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
1105 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
1109 Alex Schroeder wrote @file{ansi-color.el}, a package for translating
1110 ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces; @file{sql.el}, a package
1111 for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
1112 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
1113 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
1114 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email. He also
1115 wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.).
1118 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
1121 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
1125 Hovav Shacham wrote @file{windmove.el}, a set of commands for selecting
1126 windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.
1129 Stanislav Shalunov wrote @file{uce.el}, for responding to unsolicited
1133 Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
1134 recent editing changes.
1137 Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
1138 interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
1139 running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
1140 @file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
1141 @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
1144 Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
1147 Rick Sladkey wrote @file{backquote.el}, a lisp macro for creating
1148 mostly-constant data.
1151 Lynn Slater wrote @file{help-macro.el}, a macro for writing interactive
1152 help for key bindings.
1155 Chris Smith wrote @file{icon.el}, a mode for editing Icon code.
1158 David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
1159 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
1162 Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
1165 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
1166 files, and @file{server.el}, a package allowing programs to send files
1167 to an extant Emacs job to be edited.
1170 Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
1171 package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.
1174 Michael Staats wrote @file{pc-select.el}, which rebinds keys for
1175 selecting regions to follow many other systems.
1178 Richard Stallman invented Emacs. He is the original author of GNU
1179 Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
1180 periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
1181 written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
1182 @file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
1183 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
1184 @file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
1185 color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
1188 Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
1189 maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
1190 @file{midnight.el}, a package for running a command every midnight.
1193 Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote @file{imenu.el}, a framework for
1194 browsing indices made from buffer contents.
1197 Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
1198 cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
1201 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
1204 Kim F. Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
1205 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
1206 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
1207 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
1208 bindings; @file{ido.el}, a package for selecting buffers and files
1209 quickly; @file{keypad.el} for simplified keypad bindings; and
1210 @file{kmacro.el}, the keyboard macro facility.
1213 Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
1214 C@t{++}, Objective-C, Java, Pike, CORBA IDL, and AWK code.
1217 Steve Strassmann did not write @file{spook.el}, and even if he did, he
1218 really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
1221 Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
1225 Tibor Šimko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
1226 editing text in Slovak language.
1229 Luc Teirlinck wrote @file{help-at-pt.el}, providing local help through
1233 Jean-Philippe Theberge wrote @file{thumbs.el}, a package for viewing
1234 image files as ``thumbnails''.
1237 Spencer Thomas wrote the original @file{dabbrev.el}, providing a command
1238 which completes the partial word before point, based on other nearby
1239 words for which it is a prefix. He also wrote the original dumping
1243 Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
1246 Markus Triska wrote @file{linum.el}, a minor mode that displays line
1247 numbers in the left margin.
1250 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
1251 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
1252 subprocess. Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
1253 clickable links to bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs
1257 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
1260 Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
1261 Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
1262 Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
1263 and Security Layer (SASL); @file{plstore.el} for secure storage of
1264 property lists; and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
1265 package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
1268 Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
1269 was the ancestor of the current Gnus package. He also wrote
1270 @file{rmailsort.el}, a package for sorting messages in RMAIL folders;
1271 @file{metamail.el}, an interface to the Metamail program;
1272 @file{gnus-kill.el}, the Kill File mode for Gnus; @file{gnus-mh.el}, an
1273 mh-e interface for Gnus; @file{gnus-msg.el}, a mail and post interface
1274 for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
1278 Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
1281 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
1282 operations on rectangle regions of text. He also contributed to Gnus
1286 Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
1289 Ulrik Vieth implemented @file{meta-mode.el}, for editing MetaFont code.
1292 Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support. He also wrote
1293 @file{dos-w32.el}, functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
1294 of Emacs, and @file{w32-fns.el}, MS-Windows specific support functions.
1297 Johan Vromans wrote @file{forms.el} and its associated files, a mode for
1298 filling in forms. He also wrote @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode
1299 providing electric accent keys.
1302 Colin Walters wrote Ibuffer, an enhanced buffer menu.
1305 Barry Warsaw wrote @file{cc-mode.el}, a mode for editing C, C@t{++},
1306 and Java code, based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen,
1307 and Richard Stallman; @file{elp.el}, a profiler for Emacs Lisp
1308 programs; @file{man.el}, a mode for reading Unix manual pages;
1309 @file{regi.el}, providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
1310 programs; @file{reporter.el}, providing customizable bug reporting for
1311 lisp packages; and @file{supercite.el}, a minor mode for quoting
1312 sections of mail messages and news articles.
1315 Christoph Wedler wrote @file{antlr-mode.el}, a major mode for ANTLR
1319 Morten Welinder helped port Emacs to MS-DOS, and introduced face
1320 support into the MS-DOS port of Emacs. He also wrote
1321 @file{desktop.el}, facilities for saving some of Emacs's state between
1322 sessions; @file{timer.el}, the Emacs facility to run commands at a
1323 given time or frequency, or when Emacs is idle, and its C-level
1324 support code; @file{pc-win.el}, the MS-DOS ``window-system'' support;
1325 @file{internal.el}, an ``internal terminal'' emulator for the MS-DOS
1326 port of Emacs; @file{arc-mode.el}, the mode for editing compressed
1327 archives; @file{s-region.el}, commands for setting the region using
1328 the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
1329 for use under MS-DOS.
1332 Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.);
1333 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
1334 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
1335 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
1336 from Jamie Zawinski.
1339 Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vhdl-mode.el}, a major
1340 mode for editing VHDL source code.
1343 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
1344 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
1345 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
1346 time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
1347 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
1348 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
1349 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
1350 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
1351 entirely in Emacs Lisp. He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.).
1354 Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
1355 finding the ``thing'' (word, line, s-expression) at point.
1358 Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
1361 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
1362 making use of earlier work by James R. Larus. Satyaki Das, Peter S.
1363 Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C. Honig also wrote various
1367 Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
1368 merging two versions of a file.
1371 Francis J. Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
1372 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
1375 Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
1376 linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
1377 ``guessing'' in CC mode.
1380 Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
1381 of the testing status of Emacs Lisp code; @file{unsafep.el} to determine
1382 if a Lisp form is safe; and the SES spreadsheet package.
1385 Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
1388 Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @file{cperl-mode.el}, a major
1389 mode for editing Perl code. Ilya Zakharevich also wrote
1390 @file{tmm.el}, a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode
1394 Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text;
1395 @file{glasses.el}, a package for easier reading of source code that
1396 uses illegible identifier names; and @file{tildify.el}, commands for
1397 adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
1400 Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
1401 zone out in front of Emacs.
1404 Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
1405 Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
1406 implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
1407 @file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text,
1408 and also menus on text-mode terminals.
1411 Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
1412 With Hallvard Furuseth, he wrote the optimizing byte compiler used
1413 from Emacs 19 onwards. He also wrote @file{mailabbrev.el}, a package
1414 that provides automatic expansion of mail aliases, and
1415 @file{tar-mode.el}, which provides simple viewing and editing commands
1419 Andrew Zhilin created the Emacs 22 icons.
1422 Shenghuo Zhu wrote @file{binhex.el}, a package for reading and writing
1423 binhex files; @file{mm-partial.el}, message/partial support for MIME
1424 messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
1425 @file{uudecode.el}, an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data; and
1426 @file{webmail.el}, an interface to Web mail. He also wrote several
1427 other Gnus components.
1430 Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
1433 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
1436 Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
1440 Ted Zlatanov (as well as his contributions to the Gnus newsreader)
1441 wrote an interface to the GnuTLS library, for secure network
1442 connections; and a futures facility for the URL library.
1445 Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
1446 with visual feedback.