from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows 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); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
+news articles; @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
@file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}. He also co-wrote
implemented support for X11.
@item
-Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el}.
+Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
+a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
@item
Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
@file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion. He
-also worked on an early version of the lexical-binding code.
+also worked on an early version of the lexical binding code.
@item
David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
it is analyzed for spam.
+@item
+Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
+generating JSON files.
+
@item
Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
source tree to HTML.
-@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.
John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
@item
-Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
+Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
@item
Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
@item
Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
-as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
+as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.@:).
@item
Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
format of Unicode.
-@item
-Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
-
@item
Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
@code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
@item
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
wrote many of its parts. Several of these are now general components of
-Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
+Emacs, including: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
@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.
@item
Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
@command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
-Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
+Viper, another emulator of the VI editor.
@item
Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
@item
Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
-strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
-and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
+strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
@item
Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
@item
Sebastian Kremer wrote @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
+@code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
program.
@item
@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.
+whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
@item
Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
Development Environment Tools) package. Portions were also written by
Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
+@item
+Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
+Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
+visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
+package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
+in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
+Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
+from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
+@code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
+question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
+maintenance of autoload files.
+
@item
Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
+@item
+Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
+
@item
Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
simple substitution ciphers.
Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
blackbox game.
-@item
-Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
-Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
-visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
-package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
-in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
-for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
-with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
-command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
-@file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
-files.
-
-@item
-Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
-
@item
David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
@file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; and @file{pcase.el},
implementing ML-style pattern matching. He integrated the
-lexical-binding code in Emacs 24.
+lexical binding code in Emacs 24.
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
elsewhere.
-@item
-Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
-@file{robin.el}, another input method.
-
@item
Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
@item
Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions. He also wrote
-@file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
-@file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
-@file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
+@file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
+@file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
+@file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
+
+@item
+Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
+@file{robin.el}, another input method.
@item
Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
+@item
+Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
+
@item
Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon. He also
wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
the status of version-controlled directories.
-@item
-Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
-
@item
Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
history between Emacs sessions.
Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
support.
-@item
-Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
-generating JSON files.
-
@item
Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
@item
-Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
+Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
@item
Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
-subprocess.
-
-@item
-Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
-bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs package system.
+subprocess. Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
+clickable links to bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs
+package system.
@item
Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
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