This list is 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. More comprehensive information is
+please make a bug report. More comprehensive information is
available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
@file{etc/AUTHORS} in the distribution.
@item
Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
-Avahi services;
-and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
-storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
-provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
-other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
-@file{tramp-cache.el}.
+Avahi services; @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
+storing confidential data; and @file{filenotify.el} and the associated
+low-level interface routines, for watching file status changes.
+He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which provides
+transparent remote file editing using ssh, ftp, and other network
+protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote @file{tramp-cache.el}.
@item
Ralf Angeli wrote @file{scroll-lock.el}, a minor mode which keeps the
@item
Juanma Barranquero wrote @file{emacs-lock.el} (based on the original
version by Tom Wurgler), which makes it harder to exit with valuable
-buffers unsaved. He also made many other contributions to other
+buffers unsaved; and @file{frameset.el}, for saving and restoring the
+frame/window setup. He also made many other contributions to other
areas, including MS Windows support.
@item
@item
Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
-prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
+prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS. Yamamoto Mitsuharu continued to
+contribute to Mac OS support in the newer Nextstep port; and also
+improved support for multi-monitor displays.
@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3. He made many
editors; and @file{scroll-all.el}, a mode for scrolling several buffers
together.
+@item
+Romain Francoise contributed ACL (Access Control List) support,
+for preserving extended file attributes on backup and copy.
+
@item
Noah Friedman wrote @file{rlogin.el}, an interface to Rlogin,
@file{type-break.el}, which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
@file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
-and implemented libxml2 support.
+and implemented libxml2 support. He also wrote @file{eww.el},
+an Emacs Lisp web browser; and implemented native zlib decompression.
Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
Lüdecke, 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
+Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Jan Tatarik, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis,
+Katsumi Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
Gnus Manual}).
@item
directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
+@item
+Leo Liu wrote @file{pcmpl-x.el}, providing completion for
+miscellaneous external tools; and revamped support for Octave in Emacs 24.4.
+
@item
Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
indentation engine; and @file{pcase.el}, implementing ML-style pattern
matching. In Emacs 24, he integrated the lexical binding code,
cleaned up the CL namespace (making it acceptable to use CL
-functions at runtime), and added generalized variables to core Emacs
-Lisp.
+functions at runtime), added generalized variables to core Emacs
+Lisp, and implemented a new lightweight advice mechanism.
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
DSSSL code.
@item
-Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24.
+Martin Rudalics implemented improved display-buffer handling in Emacs 24;
+and implemented ``pixel-wise'' resizing of windows and frames.
@item
Ivar Rummelhoff wrote @file{winner.el}, which records recent window
Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows. He also wrote @file{tty-colors.el}, which
implements transparent mapping of X colors to tty colors; and
-@file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text.
+@file{rxvt.el}. He implemented support for bidirectional text,
+and also menus on text-mode terminals.
@item
Jamie Zawinski wrote much of the support for faces and X selections.
@node Acknowledgments
@unnumberedsec Acknowledgments
+@c It's hard to update this fairly.
+@c I wonder if it would be better to drop it in favor of AUTHORS?
Contributors to GNU Emacs include Jari Aalto, Per Abrahamsen, Tomas
Abrahamsson, Jay K. Adams, Alon Albert, Michael Albinus, Nagy
Andras, Benjamin Andresen, Ralf Angeli, Dmitry Antipov, Joe Arceneaux, Emil Åström,
Miles Bader, David Bakhash, Juanma Barranquero, Eli Barzilay, Thomas
Baumann, Steven L. Baur, Jay Belanger, Alexander L. Belikoff,
-Thomas Bellman, Scott Bender, Boaz Ben-Zvi, Sergey Berezin, Karl
+Thomas Bellman, Scott Bender, Boaz Ben-Zvi, Sergey Berezin, Stephen Berman, Karl
Berry, Anna M. Bigatti, Ray Blaak, Martin Blais, Jim Blandy, Johan
Bockgård, Jan Böcker, Joel Boehland, Lennart Borgman, Per Bothner,
Terrence Brannon, Frank Bresz, Peter Breton, Emmanuel Briot, Kevin
Engster, Hans Henrik Eriksen, Michael Ernst, Ata Etemadi, Frederick
Farnbach, Oscar Figueiredo, Fred Fish, Steve Fisk, Karl Fogel, Gary
Foster, Eric S. Fraga, Romain Francoise, Noah Friedman, Andreas
-Fuchs, Shigeru Fukaya, Hallvard Furuseth, Keith Gabryelski, Peter S.
+Fuchs, Shigeru Fukaya, Xue Fuqiao, Hallvard Furuseth, Keith Gabryelski, Peter S.
Galbraith, Kevin Gallagher, Fabián E. Gallina, Kevin Gallo, Juan León Lahoz García,
Howard Gayle, Daniel German, Stephen Gildea, Julien Gilles, David
Gillespie, Bob Glickstein, Deepak Goel, David De La Harpe Golden, Boris
Goldowsky, David Goodger, Chris Gray, Kevin Greiner, Michelangelo Grigni, Odd
Gripenstam, Kai Großjohann, Michael Gschwind, Bastien Guerry, Henry
-Guillaume, Doug Gwyn, Bruno Haible, Ken'ichi Handa, Lars Hansen, Chris
+Guillaume, Dmitry Gutov, Doug Gwyn, Bruno Haible, Ken'ichi Handa, Lars Hansen, Chris
Hanson, Jesper Harder, Alexandru Harsanyi, K. Shane Hartman, John
Heidemann, Jon K. Hellan, Magnus Henoch, Markus Heritsch, Dirk
Herrmann, Karl Heuer, Manabu Higashida, Konrad Hinsen, Anders Holst,
Landstrom, Mario Lang, Aaron Larson, James R. Larus, Vinicius Jose
Latorre, Werner Lemberg, Frederic Lepied, Peter Liljenberg, Christian
Limpach, Lars Lindberg, Chris Lindblad, Anders Lindgren, Thomas Link,
-Juri Linkov, Francis Litterio, Sergey Litvinov, Emilio C. Lopes,
+Juri Linkov, Francis Litterio, Sergey Litvinov, Leo Liu, Emilio C. Lopes,
Martin Lorentzon, Dave Love, Eric Ludlam, Károly Lőrentey, Sascha
Lüdecke, Greg McGary, Roland McGrath, Michael McNamara, Alan Mackenzie,
Christopher J. Madsen, Neil M. Mager, Ken Manheimer, Bill Mann,
Brian Marick, Simon Marshall, Bengt Martensson, Charlie Martin,
Yukihiro Matsumoto, Tomohiro Matsuyama, David Maus, Thomas May, Will Mengarini, David
Megginson, Stefan Merten, Ben A. Mesander, Wayne Mesard, Brad
-Miller, Lawrence Mitchell, Richard Mlynarik, Gerd Möllmann, Stefan
+Miller, Lawrence Mitchell, Richard Mlynarik, Gerd Möllmann, Dani Moncayo, Stefan
Monnier, Keith Moore, Jan Moringen, Morioka Tomohiko, Glenn Morris,
Don Morrison, Diane Murray, Riccardo Murri, Sen Nagata, Erik Naggum,
Gergely Nagy, Nobuyoshi Nakada, Thomas Neumann, Mike Newton, Thien-Thi Nguyen,
Reiner Steib, Sam Steingold, Ake Stenhoff, Peter Stephenson, Ken
Stevens, Andy Stewart, Jonathan Stigelman, Martin Stjernholm, Kim F.
Storm, Steve Strassmann, Christopher Suckling, Olaf Sylvester, Naoto
-Takahashi, Steven Tamm, Luc Teirlinck, Jean-Philippe Theberge, Jens
+Takahashi, Steven Tamm, Jan Tatarik, Luc Teirlinck, Jean-Philippe Theberge, Jens
T. Berger Thielemann, Spencer Thomas, Jim Thompson, Toru Tomabechi,
David O'Toole, Markus Triska, Tom Tromey, Enami Tsugutomo, Eli
Tziperman, Daiki Ueno, Masanobu Umeda, Rajesh Vaidheeswarran, Neil
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