sound effects for Gnus.
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-Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, David Edmondson, Andreas
-Fuchs, Mario Lang, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, and Alex Schroeder
-contributed ERC, an advanced Internet Relay Chat client.
+Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, David Edmondson, Andreas Fuchs,
+Mario Lang, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, and Alex Schroeder wrote ERC,
+an advanced Internet Relay Chat client.
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Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote @file{profile.el}, to time Emacs Lisp functions.
text replace the current selection.
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-Eric Ding contributed @file{goto-addr.el},
+Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
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Jan Dj@"{a}rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
@file{edmacro.el}, a package for editing keyboard macros.
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-Bob Glickstein contributed the @file{sregex.el} feature, a facility for
-writing regexps using a Lisp-like syntax.
+Bob Glickstein wrote @file{sregex.el}, a facility for writing regexps
+using a Lisp-like syntax.
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Boris Goldowsky wrote @file{avoid.el}, a package to keep the mouse
Vaidheeswarran.
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-Frederic Lepied contributed @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
+Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
mechanism for inserting programming constructs.
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the MIX assembly language.
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-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.
+David Pearson wrote @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.
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Jeff Peck wrote @file{sun.el}, key bindings for sunterm keys;
@c We're not distributing his tex-mode.el anymore; we're using Ed Reingold's.
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-Mukesh Prasad contributed @file{vmsproc.el}, a facility for running
+Mukesh Prasad wrote @file{vmsproc.el}, a facility for running
asynchronous subprocesses on VMS.
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system's designated mail client.
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-Alex Rezinsky contributed @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the
-name of the current function in the mode line.
+Alex Rezinsky wrote @file{which-func.el}, a mode that shows the name
+of the current function in the mode line.
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-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.
+Rob Riepel wrote @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.
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Nick Roberts wrote @file{gdb-ui.el}, the graphical user interface to
DSSSL code, and @file{fakemail.c}, an interface to the System V mailer.
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-Ivar Rummelhoff provided @file{winner.el}, which records
-recent window configurations so you can move back to them.
+Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
+configurations so you can move back to them.
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-Jason Rumney has ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and
+Jason Rumney ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows, and has
contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
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-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.
+Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote 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.
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Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
sessions within Emacs.
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-Ralph Schleicher contributed @file{battery.el}, a package for displaying
+Ralph Schleicher wrote @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.
@file{TODO} list files.
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-Manuel Serrano contributed the Flyspell package that does spell checking
+Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
as you type.
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commercial email.
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-Richard Sharman contributed @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors
-to show recent editing changes.
+Richard Sharman wrote @file{hilit-chg.el}, which uses colors to show
+recent editing changes.
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Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
browsing indices made from buffer contents.
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-Peter Stephenson contributed @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a
-``virtual cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for
-copying text.
+Peter Stephenson wrote @file{vcursor.el}, which implements a ``virtual
+cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
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Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
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-Didier Verna contributed @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
+Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
operations on rectangle regions of text.
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Ryan Yeske wrote @file{rcirc.el} a simple Internet Relay Chat client.
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-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.
+Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson wrote @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.
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Milan Zamazal wrote @file{czech.el}, support for editing Czech text,
adding hard spaces to text, @TeX{}, and SGML/HTML files.
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-Victor Zandy contributed @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like
-to zone out in front of Emacs.
+Victor Zandy wrote @file{zone.el}, a package for people who like to
+zone out in front of Emacs.
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Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and