@c and anyone who has made major enhancements in Emacs
@c that many users would notice and consider important.
@c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
+@c Note this file is only used ifnottex; otherwise a shorter version in
+@c emacs.texi is used.
@itemize @bullet
@item
@item
Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
-Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence Mitchell, Gergely
-Nagy, Michael Olson, Jorgen Schaefer, Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey
-wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay Chat client.
+Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
+Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
+Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
+Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
+ERC distribution).
@item
Scott Bender, Michael Brouwer, Christophe de Dinechin, Carl Edman,
Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
@item
-Ray Blaak wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing Delphi (Object
-Pascal) source code.
+Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
+Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
@item
Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
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.
+terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
+@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
@item
Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
@item
Emmanuel Briot wrote @file{xml.el}, an XML parser for Emacs; and
-@file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files.
+@file{ada-prj.el}, editing of Ada mode project files, as well as
+co-authoring @file{ada-mode.el} and @file{ada-xref.el}.
@item
Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
Lisp.
@item
-Chris Chase and Carsten Dominik wrote IDLWAVE mode, for editing
-IDL and WAVE CL.
+Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
+for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
@item
Bob Chassell wrote @file{texnfo-upd.el}, @file{texinfo.el}, and
@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
-improvements to the Emacs display engine and wrote @file{longlines.el},
-a minor mode for wrapping long lines.
+improvements to the Emacs display engine; and, together with Kai
+Gro@ss{}johann and Alex Schroeder, wrote @file{longlines.el}, a minor
+mode for wrapping long lines.
@item
James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
format of Unicode.
@item
-Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (@file{ada-mode.el}).
+Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
@item
Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
@file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
@file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of
-Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, Kevin Greiner, Kai
-Gro@ss{}johann, Paul Jarc, Sascha L@"{u}decke, David Moore, Raymond Scholz,
-Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov,
-and others.
+Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
+Kevin Greiner, Kai Gro@ss{}johann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
+L@"{u}decke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
+Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
+Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
@item
Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
@item
Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote the Emacs printing facilities, as well as
-@code{ps-print}, a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to
-PostScript printers; @file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text
-into columns; @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF
-grammar to a syntactic chart that can be printed to a PostScript
-printer; and @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans
-up excess whitespace in a file. The previous version of
-@file{whitespace.el}, used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh
-Vaidheeswarran.
+@code{ps-print} (with Jim Thompson, Jacques Duthen, and Kenichi Handa),
+a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
+@file{delim-col.el}, a package to arrange text into columns;
+@file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
+chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
+@file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
+whitespace in a file. The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
+used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
@item
Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
@item
Simon Marshall wrote @file{regexp-opt.el}, which generates a regular
expression from a list of strings; and the fast-lock and lazy-lock
-font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el}, originally
-written by Olin Shivers.
+font-lock support modes. He also extended @file{comint.el} and
+@file{shell.el}, originally written by Olin Shivers.
@item
-Bengt Martensson, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, and Stefan
-Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
+Bengt Martensson, Dirk Herrmann, Marc Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson,
+and Stefan Schoef, wrote @file{bibtex.el}, a mode for editing Bib@TeX{}
bibliography files.
@item
the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
@item
-William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el}, a MIME media types
-configuration facility; @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting
-mouse wheels; @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and the URL package.
+William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
+Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
+@file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
+Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
+package.
@item
Per Persson wrote @file{gnus-vm.el}, the VM interface for Gnus.
Daniel also rewrote @file{apropos.el} (originally written by Joe Wells),
for finding commands, functions, and variables matching a regular
expression; and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored @file{wyse50.el},
-support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el} (q.v.@:).
+support for Wyse 50 terminals. He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
+(q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
@item
Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
widgets.
+@item
+Fran@,{c}ois Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
+support for PO translation files.
+
@item
Christian Plaunt wrote @file{soundex.el}, an implementation of the
Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their pronunciation.
@item
Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
-Dershowitz, Paul Eggert, Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer,
-and Lara Rios. Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold
-also contributed to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files,
-as did William F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange,
-and Jacob Gore.
+Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
+Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
+Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
+Andy Oram contributed to its documentation. Reingold also contributed
+to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
+F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
+Gore.
@item
David Reitter wrote @file{mailclient.el} which can send mail via the
@item
Olin Shivers wrote @file{comint.el}, a library for modes running
-interactive command-line- oriented subprocesses; @file{cmuscheme.el},
-for running inferior Scheme processes; @file{inf-lisp.el}, for running
-inferior Lisp process; and @file{shell.el}, for running inferior
-shells.
+interactive command-line-oriented subprocesses, and @file{shell.el}, for
+running inferior shells (both since extended by Simon Marshall);
+@file{cmuscheme.el}, for running inferior Scheme processes;
+@file{inf-lisp.el}, for running inferior Lisp process.
@item
Espen Skoglund wrote @file{pascal.el}, a mode for editing Pascal code.
periods. In addition to much of the ``core'' Emacs code, he has
written @file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus;
@file{image-mode.el}, support for visiting image files;
-@file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code; and
+@file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code;
@file{paren.el}, a package to make matching parentheses stand out in
-color.
+color; and also co-authored portions of CC mode.
@item
Sam Steingold wrote @file{gulp.el}, a facility for asking package
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
Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
@item
Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
-Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el}, @file{sasl-digest.el}, and
-@file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL);
-and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG) package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
+Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
+Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
+and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
+package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
@item
Masanobu Umeda wrote GNUS, a feature-rich reader for Usenet news that
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