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+ @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
+ @c Copyright (C) 1994,1995,1996,1997,1999,2000,2001
+ @c  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; and @file{minibuf-eldef.el}, a minor mode whereby the default
+ value is shown in the minibuffer prompt only when appropriate.
+ 
+ @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
+ address@hidden 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
+ Carsten Dominik wrote @file{reftex.el}, a package for setting up
+ labels and cross-references in address@hidden documents.
+ 
+ @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
+ 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
+ Emacs 19's Common Lisp compatibility packages, replacing the old package
+ by Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez,
+ @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
+ Michael Gschwind wrote @file{iso-cvt.el}, a package to convert between
+ the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for address@hidden
+ 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
+ address@hidden text.  Together with Naoto Takahashi, he wrote
+ @file{quail.el}, a simple input facility for typing address@hidden text from
+ an @acronym{ASCII} keyboard.  Ken'ichi also wrote @file{ps-bdf.el}, a BDF font
+ support for printing address@hidden 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 address@hidden
+ 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
+ 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 @file{flow-fill.el}, a package for interpreting
+ RFC2646 formatted text in messages, @file{imap.el}, an Emacs Lisp
+ library for talking to IMAP servers, @file{nnimap}, the IMAP back-end
+ for Gnus, @file{rfc2104.el}, a hashed message authentication facility,
+ and @file{fringe.el} a package for customizing the fringe.
+ 
+ @item
+ Tomoji Kagatani implemented @file{smtpmail.el}, used for sending out
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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 address@hidden 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:
+ 
+ @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 address@hidden
+ constructs; and @file{follow.el}, a minor mode to synchronize windows
+ that show the same buffer.
+ 
+ @item
+ Dave Love 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{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{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:
+ 
+ @itemize @minus
+ @item
+ @file{fast-lock.el}, which caches the face data computed by Font Lock mode,
+ @item
+ @file{lazy-lock.el}, which delays fontification in Font Lock mode
+ until text is actually displayed, and
+ @item
+ @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular expression from a list
+ of strings.
+ @end itemize
+ 
+ Simon 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 address@hidden
+ 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 wrote:
+ 
+ @itemize @minus
+ @item
+ the new display engine for Emacs 21,
+ @item
+ the asynchronous timers facility (@file{atimer.c}),
+ @item
+ the @code{ebrowse} address@hidden 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
+ 
+ Gerd took over the Emacs maintenance as the head maintainer since the
+ beginning of Emacs 21 development.
+ 
+ @item
+ Stefan Monnier wrote:
+ 
+ @itemize @minus
+ @item
+ @code{PCL-CVS}, a directory-level front end to the CVS version control
+ system,
+ @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
+ 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, and @file{mwheel.el}, support for MS
+ Intellimouse type mice with wheels.
+ 
+ @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{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.
+ 
+ @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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
+ address@hidden, 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
+ Taichi Kawabata wrote support for Devanagari script and the Indian
+ languages.
+ 
+ @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, defining a
+ mode for filling in forms, and @file{iso-acc.el}, a minor mode providing
+ electric accent keys for text using the ISO-8859 character set.
+ 
+ @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, address@hidden, 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
+ 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