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* Emacs: (emacs).	The extensible self-documenting text editor.
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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.

   * Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization buffer facilities, as well
     as `double.el' for typing accented characters not normally
     available from the keyboard, `xt-mouse.el' which handles mouse
     commands through Xterm, `gnus-cus.el' which implements
     customization commands for Gnus, `gnus-cite.el', a
     citation-parsing facility for news articles and `cpp.el' which
     hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
     conditionals.

   * Tomas Abrahamsson wrote `artist.el', a package for producing ASCII
     art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.

   * Jay K. Adams wrote `jka-compr.el', providing automatic
     decompression and recompression for compressed files.

   * Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
     implemented support for X11.

   * Miles Bader wrote `image-file.el', support code for visiting image
     files; and `minibuf-eldef.el', a minor mode whereby the default
     value is shown in the minibuffer prompt only when appropriate.

   * David Bakhash wrote `strokes.el', a mode for controlling Emacs by
     moving the mouse in particular patterns.

   * Eli Barzilay wrote `calculator.el', a desktop calculator for Emacs.

   * Steven L. Baur wrote `footnote.el' which lets you include
     footnotes in email messages, and `gnus-audio.el' which provides
     sound effects for Gnus.

   * Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote `profile.el', to time Emacs Lisp functions.

   * Ray Blaak wrote `delphi.el', a major mode for editing Delphi
     (Object Pascal) source code.

   * 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 `tvi970.el', terminal support for the TeleVideo 970
     terminals.

   * Per Bothner wrote `term.el', a terminal emulator in an Emacs
     buffer.

   * Terrence M. Brannon wrote `landmark.el', a neural-network robot
     that learns landmarks.

   * Frank Bresz wrote `diff.el', a program to display `diff' output.

   * Peter Breton implemented:

        - `dirtrack' which does better tracking of directory changes in
          shell buffers,

        - `filecache.el' which records which directories your files are
          in,

        - `locate.el' which interfaces to the `locate' command,

        - `find-lisp.el', an Emacs Lisp emulation of the `find' program,

        - `net-utils.el', and

        - the "generic mode" feature.

   * Emmanuel Briot wrote `xml.el', an XML parser for Emacs.

   * Kevin Broadey wrote `foldout.el', providing folding extensions to
     Emacs's outline modes.

   * David M. Brown wrote `array.el', for editing arrays and other
     tabular data.

   * W/lodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote `ogonek.el', a package for
     changing the encoding of Polish characters.

   * Bill Carpenter provided `feedmail.el', a package for massaging
     outgoing mail messages and sending them through various popular
     mailers.

   * Per Cederqvist and Inge Wallin wrote `ewoc.el', an Emacs widget for
     manipulating object collections.

   * Hans Chalupsky wrote `advice.el', an overloading mechanism for
     Emacs Lisp functions, and `trace.el', a tracing facility for Emacs
     Lisp.

   * Chris Chase and Carsten Dominik wrote `idlwave.el', an editing mode
     for IDL and WAVE CL.

   * Bob Chassell wrote `texnfo-upd.el' and `makeinfo.el', modes and
     utilities for working with Texinfo files; and `page-ext.el',
     commands for extended page handling.

   * Andrew Choi wrote the Macintosh support code, and contributed
     `mac-win.el', support for the Mac window system.

   * James Clark wrote `sgml-mode.el', a mode for editing SGML
     documents, and contributed to Emacs's dumping procedures.

   * Mike Clarkson wrote `edt.el', an emulation of DEC's EDT editor.

   * Glynn Clements provided `gamegrid.el' and a couple of games that
     use it, Snake and Tetris.

   * Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote `easy-mmode.el', a
     package for easy definition of major and minor modes.

   * Andrew Csillag wrote M4 mode (`m4-mode.el').

   * Doug Cutting and Jamie Zawinski wrote `disass.el', a disassembler
     for compiled Emacs Lisp code.

   * Michael DeCorte wrote `emacs.csh', a C-shell script that starts a
     new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.

   * Gary Delp wrote `mailpost.el', an interface between RMAIL and the
     `/usr/uci/post' mailer.

   * Matthieu Devin wrote `delsel.el', a package to make newly-typed
     text replace the current selection.

   * Eric Ding contributed `goto-addr.el',

   * Carsten Dominik wrote `reftex.el', a package for setting up labels
     and cross-references in LaTeX documents.

   * Scott Draves wrote `tq.el', help functions for maintaining
     transaction queues between Emacs and its subprocesses.

   * Benjamin Drieu wrote `pong.el', an implementation of the classical
     pong game.

   * Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.

   * John Eaton co-wrote Octave mode (`octave.el' and related files).

   * Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode (`ada-mode.el').

   * Stephen Eglen implemented `mspools.el', for use with Procmail,
     which tells you which mail folders have mail waiting in them, and
     `iswitchb.el', a feature for incremental reading and completion of
     buffer names.

   * Torbjo"rn Einarsson contributed the  Fortran 90 mode (`f90.el').

   * Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character
     sets.

   * Hans Henrik Eriksen wrote `simula.el', a mode for editing SIMULA 87
     code.

   * Michael Ernst wrote `reposition.el', a command for recentering a
     function's source code and preceding comment on the screen.

   * Ata Etemadi wrote `cdl.el', functions for working with Common Data
     Language source code.

   * Frederick Farnbach implemented `morse.el', which converts text to
     Morse code.

   * Oscar Figueiredo wrote EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client,
     which is an interface to directory servers via LDAP, CCSO PH/QI,
     or BBDB; and `ldap.el', the LDAP client interface.

   * Fred Fish wrote the support for dumping COFF executable files.

   * Karl Fogel wrote:

        - `bookmark.el', for creating named placeholders, saving them
          and jumping to them later,

        - `mail-hist.el', a history mechanism for outgoing mail
          messages, and

        - `saveplace.el', for preserving point's location in files
          between editing sessions.

   * Gary Foster wrote `crisp.el', the emulation for CRiSP and Brief
     editors, and `scroll-lock.el' (now `scroll-all.el') a mode for
     scrolling several buffers together.

   * Noah Friedman wrote `rlogin.el', an interface to Rlogin,
     `type-break.el', which reminds you to take periodic breaks from
     typing, and `eldoc-mode', a mode to show the defined parameters or
     the doc string for the Lisp function near point.  With Roland
     McGrath, he wrote `rsz-mini.el', a minor mode to automatically
     resize the minibuffer to fit the text it contains.

   * Keith Gabryelski wrote `hexl.el', a mode for editing binary files.

   * Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
     `flow-ctrl.el', a package for coping with unsuppressible XON/XOFF
     flow control.

   * Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
     `w32-win.el', support functions for the MS-Windows window system.

   * Howard Gayle wrote:

        - the C and lisp code for display tables and case tables,

        - `rot13.el', a command to display the plain-text form of a
          buffer encoded with the Caesar cipher,

        - `case-table.el', code to extend the character set and support
          case tables,

        - much of the support for the ISO-8859 European character sets
          (which includes `iso-ascii.el', `iso-insert.el',
          `iso-swed.el', `latin-1.el', `iso-syntax.el', `iso-transl.el',
          `swedish.el'), and

        - `vt100-led.el', a package for controlling the LED's on
          VT100-compatible terminals.

   * Stephen Gildea made the Emacs quick reference card, and made many
     contributions for `time-stamp.el', a package for maintaining
     last-change time stamps in files.

   * Julien Gilles wrote `gnus-ml.el', a mailing list minor mode for
     Gnus.

   * David Gillespie wrote:

        - Emacs 19's Common Lisp compatibility packages, replacing the
          old package by Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez,

        - `complete.el', a partial completion mechanism, and

        - `edmacro.el', a package for editing keyboard macros.

   * Bob Glickstein contributed the `sregex.el' feature, a facility for
     writing regexps using a Lisp-like syntax.

   * Boris Goldowsky wrote:

        - `avoid.el', a package to keep the mouse cursor out of the way
          of the text cursor,

        - `shadowfile.el', a package for keeping identical copies of
          files in more than one place,

        - `format.el', a package for reading and writing files in
          various formats,

        - `enriched.el', a package for saving text properties in files,
          and

        - `facemenu.el', a package for specifying faces.

   * Michelangelo Grigni wrote `ffap.el' which visits a file, taking
     the file name from the buffer.

   * Odd Gripenstam wrote `dcl-mode.el' for editing DCL command files.

   * Michael Gschwind wrote `iso-cvt.el', a package to convert between
     the ISO 8859-1 character set and the notations for non-ASCII
     characters used by TeX and net tradition, and `latin-2.el', code
     which sets up case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-2
     character set.

   * Henry Guillaume wrote `find-file.el', a package to visit files
     related to the currently visited file.

   * Doug Gwyn wrote the portable `alloca' implementation.

   * Ken'ichi Handa implemented most of the support for international
     character sets, and wrote `isearch-x.el', a facility for searching
     non-ASCII text.  Together with Naoto Takahashi, he wrote
     `quail.el', a simple input facility for typing non-ASCII text from
     an ASCII keyboard.  Ken'ichi also wrote `ps-bdf.el', a BDF font
     support for printing non-ASCII text on a PostScript printer.

   * Chris Hanson wrote `netuname.el', a package to use HP-UX's Remote
     File Access facility from Emacs.

   * K. Shane Hartman wrote:

        - `chistory.el' and `echistory.el', packages for browsing
          command history lists,

        - `electric.el' and `helper.el', providing an alternative
          command loop and appropriate help facilities,

        - `emacsbug.el', a package for reporting Emacs bugs,

        - `picture.el', a mode for editing ASCII pictures, and

        - `view.el', a package for perusing files and buffers without
          editing them.

   * John Heidemann wrote `mouse-copy.el' and `mouse-drag.el', which
     provide alternative mouse-based editing and scrolling features.
     He also contributed `zone-mode.el', a major mode for editing DNS
     zone files.

   * Jon K Hellan wrote `utf7.el', support for mail-safe transformation
     format of Unicode.

   * Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode (`ada-mode.el').

   * Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
     `intangible' text property, and rearranged the structure of the
     `Lisp_Object' type to allow for more data bits.

   * Manabu Higashida ported Emacs to MS-DOS.

   * Anders Holst wrote `hippie-exp.el', a versatile completion and
     expansion package.

   * Kurt Hornik co-wrote Octave mode (`octave.el' and related files).

   * Tom Houlder wrote `mantemp.el', which generates manual C++
     template instantiations.

   * Denis Howe wrote `browse-url.el', a package for invoking a WWW
     browser to display a URL.

   * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus
     news-reader and wrote many of its parts.

   * Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.

   * Seiichiro Inoue improved Emacs's XIM support.

   * Kyle Jones wrote `life.el', a package to play Conway's "life" game,
     and `mldrag.el', a package which allows the user to resize windows
     by dragging mode lines and vertical window separators with the
     mouse.

   * Terry Jones wrote `shadow.el', a package for finding potential
     load-path problems when some Lisp file "shadows" another.

   * Simon Josefsson wrote `flow-fill.el', a package for interpreting
     RFC2646 formatted text in messages, `imap.el', an Emacs Lips
     library for talking to IMAP servers, `nnimap', the IMAP back-end
     for Gnus, nd `rfc2104.el', a hashed message authentication
     facility.

   * Tomoji Kagatani implemented `smtpmail.el', used for sending out
     mail with SMTP.

   * David Kaufman wrote `yow.c', an essential utility program for the
     hopelessly pinheaded.

   * Henry Kautz wrote `bib-mode.el', a mode for maintaining
     bibliography databases compatible with `refer' (the `troff'
     version) and `lookbib', and `refbib.el', a package to convert
     those databases to the format used by the LaTeX text formatting
     package.

   * Howard Kaye wrote `sort.el', commands to sort text in Emacs
     buffers.

   * Michael Kifer wrote `ediff.el', an interactive interface to the
     `diff', `patch', and `merge' programs, and Viper, the newest
     emulation for VI.

   * Richard King wrote the first version of `userlock.el' and
     `filelock.c', which provide simple support for multiple users
     editing the same file.  He also wrote the initial version of
     `uniquify.el', a facility to make buffer names unique by adding
     parts of the file's name to the buffer name.

   * Peter Kleiweg wrote `ps-mode.el', a major mode for editing
     PostScript files and running a PostScript interpreter
     interactively from within Emacs.

   * Larry K. Kolodney wrote `cvtmail.c', a program to convert the mail
     directories used by Gosling Emacs into RMAIL format.

   * David M. Koppelman wrote `hi-lock.el', a minor mode for
     interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.

   * Robert Krawitz wrote the original `xmenu.c', part of Emacs's pop-up
     menu support.

   * Sebastian Kremer wrote Emacs 19's `dired-mode', with contributions
     by Lawrence R. Dodd.  He also wrote `ls-lisp.el', a Lisp emulation
     of the `ls' command for platforms which don't have `ls' as a
     standard program.

   * Geoff Kuenning wrote Emacs 19's `ispell.el', based on work by Ken
     Stevens and others.

   * David Ka*gedal wrote `tempo.el', providing support for easy
     insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.

   * Daniel LaLiberte wrote:

        - `edebug.el', a source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp,

        - `cl-specs.el', specifications to help `edebug' debug code
          written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support,

        - `cust-print.el', a customizable package for printing lisp
          objects,

        - `eval-reg.el', a re-implementation of `eval-region' in Emacs
          Lisp, and

        - `isearch.el', Emacs's incremental search minor mode.

   * James R. Larus wrote `mh-e.el', an interface to the MH mail system.

   * Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:

        - `ps-print', a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to
          PostScript printers,

        - `delim-col.el', a package to arrange text into columns,

        - `ebnf2ps.el', a package that translates EBNF grammar to a
          syntactic chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer.

   * Frederic Lepied contributed `expand.el', which uses the abbrev
     mechanism for inserting programming constructs.

   * Peter Liljenberg wrote `elint.el', a Lint-style code checker for
     Emacs Lisp programs.

   * Lars Lindberg wrote `msb.el', which provides more flexible menus
     for buffer selection, and rewrote `dabbrev.el'.

   * Anders Lindgren wrote `autorevert.el', a package for automatically
     reverting files visited by Emacs that were changed on disk;
     `cwarn.el', a package to highlight suspicious C and C++
     constructs; and `follow.el', a minor mode to synchronize windows
     that show the same buffer.

   * Dave Love wrote:

        - `autoarg-mode', a global minor mode whereby digit keys supply
          prefix arguments, and `autoarg-kp-mode' which redefines the
          keypad numeric keys to digit arguments,

        - `autoconf.el', a mode for editing Autoconf `configure.in'
          files,

        - `elide-head.el', a package for eliding boilerplate text, such
          as copyright notices, from file headers,

        - `hl-line.el', a package that provides a minor mode for
          highlighting the line in the current window on which point is,

        - `latin-8.el' and `latin-9.el', code which sets up
          case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-8 and
          Latin-9 character sets,

        - `latin1-disp.el', a package that lets you display ISO 8859
          characters on Latin-1 terminals by setting up appropriate
          display tables,

        - `refill.el', a mode for automatic paragraph refilling, akin to
          typical word processors,

        - `smiley-ems.el', a facility for displaying smiley faces, and

        - `tool-bar.el', a mode to control the display of the Emacs
          tool bar.

   * Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package and `checkdoc.el', a package
     for checking doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs.

   * Christopher J. Madsen wrote `decipher.el', a package for cracking
     simple substitution ciphers.

   * Neil M. Mager wrote `appt.el', functions to notify users of their
     appointments.  It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
     generated by Edward M. Reingold's `calendar' package.

   * Ken Manheimer wrote `allout.el', a mode for manipulating and
     formatting outlines, and `icomplete.el', which provides incremental
     completion feedback in the minibuffer.

   * Bill Mann wrote `perl-mode.el', a mode for editing Perl code.

   * Brian Marick and Daniel LaLiberte wrote `hideif.el', support for
     hiding selected code within C `#ifdef' clauses.

   * Simon Marshall wrote:

        - `fast-lock.el', which caches the face data computed by Font
          Lock mode,

        - `lazy-lock.el', which delays fontification in Font Lock mode
          until text is actually displayed, and

        - `regexp-opt.el', which generates a regular expression from a
          list of strings.

     Simon also extended `comint.el', originally written by Olin
     Shivers.

   * Bengt Martensson, Mark Shapiro, Mike Newton, Aaron Larson, and
     Stefan Schoef, wrote `bibtex.el', a mode for editing BibTeX
     bibliography files.

   * Charlie Martin wrote `autoinsert.el', which provides automatic
     mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.

   * Thomas May wrote `blackbox.el', a version of the traditional
     blackbox game.

   * Roland McGrath wrote:

        - `compile.el', a package for running compilations in a buffer,
          and then visiting the locations reported in error messages,

        - `etags.el', a package for jumping to function definitions and
          searching or replacing in all the files mentioned in a `TAGS'
          file,

        - `find-dired.el', for using `dired' commands on output from the
          `find' program, with Sebastian Kremer,

        - `map-ynp.el', a general purpose boolean question-asker,

        - `autoload.el', providing semi-automatic maintenance of
          autoload files, and

        - `upd-copyr.el', providing semi-automatic maintenance of
          copyright notices in source code.

   * David Megginson wrote `derived.el', which allows one to define new
     major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing
     major modes.

   * Will Mengarini wrote `repeat.el', a command to repeat the preceding
     command with its arguments.

   * Wayne Mesard wrote `hscroll.el' which does horizontal scrolling
     automatically.

   * Brad Miller wrote `gnus-gl.el', a Gnus interface for GroupLens.

   * Richard Mlynarik wrote:

        - `cl-indent.el', a package for indenting Common Lisp code,

        - `ebuff-menu.el', an "electric" browser for buffer listings,

        - `ehelp.el', bindings for browsing help screens,

        - `rfc822.el', a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822
          format, used in mail messages and news articles,

        - `terminal.el', a terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses, and

        - `yow.el', an essential utility (try `M-x yow').

   * Gerd Moellmann wrote:

        - the new display engine for Emacs 21,

        - the asynchronous timers facility (`atimer.c'),

        - the `ebrowse' C++ browser,

        - `jit-lock.el', the Just-In-Time font-lock support mode,

        - `tooltip.el', a package for displaying tooltips, and

        - `authors.el' package for maintaining the `AUTHORS' files.

     Gerd took over the Emacs maintenance as the head maintainer since
     the beginning of Emacs 21 development.

   * Stefan Monnier wrote:

        - `PCL-CVS', a directory-level front end to the CVS version
          control system,

        - `smerge-mode.el', a minor mode for resolving `diff3'
          conflicts, and

        - `diff-mode.el', a mode for viewing and editing context diffs.

   * Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus
     and elsewhere.

   * Sen Nagata wrote `crm.el', a package for reading multiple strings
     with completion, and `rfc2368.el', support for `mailto:' URLs.

   * Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions.  He also wrote
     `disp-table.el', a package for dealing with display tables,
     `latin-4.el' and `latin-5.el', code which sets up case-conversion
     and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-4 and Latin-5 character sets,
     `mailheader.el', a pacakage for parsing email headers, and
     `parse-time.el', a package for parsing time strings.

   * Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote `makefile.el' (now
     `make-mode.el'), a mode for editing makefiles.

   * Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote `hideshow.el', a minor
     mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.

   * Dan Nicolaescu wrote `romanian.el', support for editing Romanian
     text, and `iris-ansi.el', support for running Emacs on SGI's
     `xwsh' and `winterm' terminal emulators.

   * Jurgen Nickelsen wrote `ws-mode.el', providing WordStar emulation.

   * Jeff Norden wrote `kermit.el', a package to help the Kermit dialup
     communications program run comfortably in an Emacs shell buffer.

   * Andrew Norman wrote `ange-ftp.el', providing transparent FTP
     support.

   * Alexandre Oliva wrote `gnus-mlspl.el', a group params-based mail
     splitting mechanism.

   * David Pearson contributed `quickurl.el', a simple method of
     inserting a URL into the current buffer based on text at point;
     `5x5.el', a game to fill all squares on the field.

   * Jeff Peck wrote:

        - `emacstool.c', support for running Emacs under SunView/Sun
          Windows,

        - `sun.el', key bindings for sunterm keys,

        - `sun-curs.el', cursor definitions for Sun Windows, and

        - `sun-fns.el' and `sun-mouse.el', providing mouse support for
          Sun Windows.

   * Damon Anton Permezel wrote `hanoi.el', an animated demonstration of
     the "Towers of Hanoi" puzzle.

   * William M. Perry wrote `mailcap.el', a MIME media types
     configuration facility, and `mwheel.el', support for MS
     Intellimouse type mice with wheels.

   * Per Persson wrote `gnus-vm.el', the VM interface for Gnus.

   * Jens Petersen wrote `find-func.el', which makes it easy to find
     the source code for an Emacs Lisp function or variable.

   * Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:

        - `copyright.el', a package for updating copyright notices in
          files,

        - `executable.el', a package for executing interpreter scripts,

        - `sh-script.el', a mode for editing shell scripts,

        - `skeleton.el', implementing a concise language for writing
          statement skeletons, and

        - `two-column.el', a minor mode for simultaneous two-column
          editing.

     Daniel also rewrote `apropos.el', originally written by Joe Wells,
     and, together with Jim Blandy, co-authored `wyse50.el', support for
     Wyse 50 terminals.

   * Richard L. Pieri wrote `pop3.el', a Post Office Protocol (RFC
     1460) interface for Emacs.

   * Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
     widgets.

   * Christian Plaunt wrote `soundex.el', an implementation of the
     Soundex algorithm for comparing English words by their
     pronunciation.

   * David Ponce wrote `recentf.el', a package that puts a menu of
     recently visited files in the Emacs menu bar.

   * Francesco A. Potorti wrote `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 `etags' program.

   * Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote `fortran.el', a mode for
     editing FORTRAN code.

   * Mukesh Prasad contributed `vmsproc.el', a facility for running
     asynchronous subprocesses on VMS.

   * Marko Rahamaa wrote `latin-3.el', code which sets up
     case-conversion and syntax tables for the ISO Latin-3 character
     set.

   * Ashwin Ram wrote `refer.el', commands to look up references in
     bibliography files by keyword.

   * Eric S. Raymond wrote:

        - `vc.el', an interface to the RCS and SCCS source code version
          control systems, with Paul Eggert,

        - `gud.el', a package for running source-level debuggers like
          GDB and SDB in Emacs,

        - `asm-mode.el', a mode for editing assembly language code,

        - `AT386.el', terminal support package for IBM's AT keyboards,

        - `cookie1.el', support for "fortune-cookie" programs like
          `yow.el' and `spook.el',

        - `finder.el', a package for finding Emacs Lisp packages by
          keyword and topic,

        - `keyswap.el', code to swap the <BS> and <DEL> keys,

        - `loadhist.el', functions for loading and unloading Emacs
          features,

        - `lisp-mnt.el', functions for working with the special headers
          used in Emacs Lisp library files, and

        - code to set and make use of the `load-history' lisp variable,
          which records the source file from which each lisp function
          loaded into Emacs came.

   * Edward M. Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support
     (try `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 `tex-mode.el', a mode for editing TeX
     files, as have William F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea,
     Michael Prange, and Jacob Gore.

   * Alex Rezinsky contributed `which-func.el', a mode that shows the
     name of the current function in the mode line.

   * Rob Riepel contributed `tpu-edt.el' and its associated files,
     providing an emulation of the VMS TPU text editor emulating the
     VMS EDT editor, and `vt-control.el', providing some control
     functions for the DEC VT line of terminals.

   * Roland B. Roberts contributed much of the VMS support distributed
     with Emacs 19, along with Joseph M. Kelsey, and `vms-pmail.el',
     support for using Emacs within VMS MAIL.

   * John Robinson wrote `bg-mouse.el', support for the mouse on the BBN
     Bitgraph terminal.

   * Danny Roozendaal implemented `handwrite.el', which converts text
     into "handwriting."

   * William Rosenblatt wrote `float.el', implementing a floating-point
     numeric type using Lisp cons cells and integers.

   * Guillermo J. Rozas wrote `scheme.el', a mode for editing Scheme and
     DSSSL code, and `fakemail.c', an interface to the System V mailer.

   * Ivar Rummelhoff provided `winner.el', which records recent window
     configurations so you can move back to them.

   * Jason Rumney has ported the Emacs 21 display engine to MS-Windows,
     and contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.

   * Wolfgang Rupprecht contributed Emacs 19's floating-point support
     (including `float-sup.el' and `floatfns.c'), and `sup-mouse.el',
     support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.

   * James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote `completion.el', providing
     dynamic word completion.

   * Masahiko Sato wrote `vip.el', an emulation of the VI editor.

   * Holger Schauer wrote `fortune.el', a package for using fortune in
     message signatures.

   * William Schelter wrote `telnet.el', support for `telnet' sessions
     within Emacs.

   * Ralph Schleicher contributed `battery.el', a package for displaying
     laptop computer battery status, and `info-look.el', a package for
     looking up Info documentation for symbols in the buffer.

   * Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote `modula2.el', a mode for
     editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter
     Robinson.

   * Ronald S. Schnell wrote `dunnet.el', a text adventure game.

   * Philippe Schnoebelen wrote `gomoku.el', a Go Moku game played
     against Emacs, and `mpuz.el', a multiplication puzzle.

   * Jan Schormann wrote `solitaire.el', an Emacs Lisp implementation of
     the Solitaire game.

   * Alex Schroeder wrote `ansi-color.el', a package for translating
     ANSI color escape sequences to Emacs faces, and `sql.el', a package
     for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer.

   * Randal Schwartz wrote `pp.el', a pretty-printer for lisp objects.

   * Oliver Seidel wrote `todo-mode.el', a package for maintaining
     `TODO' list files.

   * Manuel Serrano contributed the Flyspell package that does spell
     checking as you type.

   * Hovav Shacham wrote `windmove.el', a set of commands for selecting
     windows based on their geometrical position on the frame.

   * Stanislav Shalunov wrote `uce.el', for responding to unsolicited
     commercial email.

   * Richard Sharman contributed `hilit-chg.el', which uses colors to
     show recent editing changes.

   * Olin Shivers wrote:

        - `comint.el', a library for modes running interactive
          command-line- oriented subprocesses,

        - `cmuscheme.el', for running inferior Scheme processes,

        - `inf-lisp.el', for running inferior Lisp process, and

        - `shell.el', for running inferior shells.

   * Espen Skoglund wrote `pascal.el', a mode for editing Pascal code.

   * Rick Sladkey wrote `backquote.el', a lisp macro for creating
     mostly-constant data.

   * Lynn Slater wrote `help-macro.el', a macro for writing interactive
     help for key bindings.

   * Chris Smith wrote `icon.el', a mode for editing Icon code.

   * David Smith wrote `ielm.el', a mode for interacting with the Emacs
     Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.

   * Paul D. Smith wrote `snmp-mode.el'.

   * William Sommerfeld wrote `scribe.el', a mode for editing Scribe
     files, and `server.el', a package allowing programs to send files
     to an extant Emacs job to be edited.

   * Andre Spiegel made many contributions to the Emacs Version Control
     package, and in particular made it support multiple back ends.

   * Michael Staats wrote `pc-select.el', which rebinds keys for
     selecting regions to follow many other systems.

   * Richard Stallman invented Emacs, and then wrote:

        - `easymeny.el', a facility for defining Emacs menus,

        - `menu-bar.el', the Emacs menu bar support code,

        - `paren.el', a package to make matching parentheses stand out
          in color, and

        - most of the rest of Emacs code.

   * Sam Steingold wrote `gulp.el', a facility for asking package
     maintainers for updated versions of their packages via e-mail, and
     `midnight.el', a package for running a command every midnight.

   * Ake Stenhoff and Lars Lindberg wrote `imenu.el', a framework for
     browsing indices made from buffer contents.

   * Peter Stephenson contributed `vcursor.el', which implements a
     "virtual cursor" that you can move with the keyboard and use for
     copying text.

   * Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of `ispell.el' and maintains
     that package since Ispell 3.1 release.

   * Jonathan Stigelman wrote `hilit19.el', a package providing
     automatic highlighting in source code buffers, mail readers, and
     other contexts.

   * Martin Stjernholm co-authored CC Mode, a major editing mode for C,
     C++, Objective-C, and Java code.

   * Steve Strassman did not write `spook.el', and even if he did, he
     really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.

   * Olaf Sylvester wrote `bs.el', a package for manipulating Emacs
     buffers.

   * Tibor S<imko and Milan Zamazal wrote `slovak.el', support for
     editing text in Slovak language.

   * Naoto Takahashi wrote `utf-8.el', support for encoding and
     decoding UTF-8 data.

   * Taichi Kawabata wrote support for Devanagari script and the Indian
     languages.

   * Jens T. Berger Thielemann wrote `word-help.el', which is part of
     the basis for `info-look.el'.

   * Spencer Thomas wrote the original `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.

   * Jim Thompson wrote `ps-print.el', which converts Emacs text to
     Postscript.

   * Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote `tcl.el', a major mode for
     editing Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an
     Emacs subprocess.

   * Daiki Ueno wrote `starttls.el', support for Transport Layer
     Security protocol.

   * Masanobu Umeda wrote:

        - GNUS, a feature-full reader for Usenet news,

        - `prolog.el', a mode for editing Prolog code,

        - `rmailsort.el', a package for sorting messages in RMAIL
          folders,

        - `metamail.el', an interface to the Metamail program,

        - `gnus-kill.el', the Kill File mode for Gnus,

        - `gnus-mh.el', an mh-e interface for Gnus,

        - `gnus-msg.el', a mail and post interface for Gnus,

        - `tcp.el', emulation of the `open-network-stream' function for
          some Emacs configurations which lack it, and

        - `timezone.el', providing functions for dealing with time
          zones.

   * Rajesh Vaidheeswarran wrote `whitespace.el', a package that
     detects and cleans up excess whitespace in a file.

   * Neil W. Van Dyke wrote `webjump.el', a "hot links" package.

   * Didier Verna contributed `rect.el', a package of functions for
     operations on rectangle regions of text.

   * Ulrik Vieth implemented `meta-mode.el', for editing MetaFont code.

   * Geoffrey Voelker wrote the Windows NT support.  He also wrote
     `dos-w32.el', functions shared by the MS-DOS and MS-Windows ports
     of Emacs, and `w32-fns.el', MS-Windows specific support functions.

   * Johan Vromans wrote `forms.el' and its associated files, defining a
     mode for filling in forms, and `iso-acc.el', a minor mode providing
     electric accent keys for text using the ISO-8859 character set.

   * Barry Warsaw wrote:

        - `assoc.el', a set of utility functions for working with
          association lists,

        - `cc-mode.el', a major mode for editing C, C++, and Java code,
          based on earlier work by Dave Detlefs, Stewart Clamen, and
          Richard Stallman,

        - `elp.el', a new profiler for Emacs Lisp programs.

        - `man.el', a mode for reading UNIX manual pages,

        - `regi.el', providing an AWK-like functionality for use in lisp
          programs,

        - `reporter.el', providing customizable bug reporting for lisp
          packages, and

        - `supercite.el', a minor mode for quoting sections of mail
          messages and news articles.

   * Morten Welinder introduced face support into the MS-DOS port of
     Emacs, and also wrote:

        - `desktop.el', facilities for saving some of Emacs's state
          between sessions,

        - `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,

        - `pc-win.el', the MS-DOS "window-system" support,

        - `internal.el', an "internal terminal" emulator for the MS-DOS
          port of Emacs,

        - `arc-mode.el', the mode for editing compressed archives,

        - `s-region.el', commands for setting the region using the
          shift key and motion commands, and

        - `dos-fns.el', functions for use under MS-DOS.

     He also helped port Emacs to MS-DOS.

   * Joseph Brian Wells wrote:

        - `apropos.el', a command to find commands, functions, and
          variables whose names contain matches for a regular
          expression,

        - `resume.el', support for processing command-line arguments
          after resuming a suspended Emacs job, and

        - `mail-extr.el', a package for extracting names and addresses
          from mail headers, with contributions from Jamie Zawinski.

   * Rodney Whitby and Reto Zimmermann wrote `vhdl-mode.el', a major
     mode for editing VHDL source code.

   * John Wiegley wrote `align.el', a set of commands for aligning text
     according to regular-expression based rules; `timeclock.el', a
     package for keeping track of time spent on projects;
     `pcomplete.el', a programmable completion facility; and `eshell',
     a command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp.

   * Ed Wilkinson wrote `b2m.c', a program to convert mail files from
     RMAIL format to Unix `mbox' format.

   * Mike Williams wrote `mouse-sel.el', providing enhanced mouse
     selection, and `thingatpt.el', a library of functions for finding
     the "thing" (word, line, s-expression) containing point.

   * Bill Wohler wrote the Emacs interface to the MH mail system.

   * Dale R. Worley wrote `emerge.el', a package for interactively
     merging two versions of a file.

   * Francis J. Wright wrote `WoMan', a package for browsing manual
     pages without the `man' command.

   * Tom Wurgler wrote `emacs-lock.el', which makes it harder to exit
     with valuable buffers unsaved.

   * Ilya Zakharevich and Bob Olson contributed `cperl-mode.el', a major
     mode for editing Perl code.  Ilya Zakharevich also wrote `tmm.el',
     a mode for accessing the Emacs menu bar on a text-mode terminal.

   * Milan Zamazal wrote `czech.el', support for editing Czech text,
     `glasses.el', a package for easier reading of source code which
     uses illegible identifier names such as `cantReadThisVariable', and
     `tildify.el', commands for adding hard spaces to text, TeX, and
     SGML/HTML files.

   * Victor Zandy contributed `zone.el', a package for people who like
     to zone out in front of Emacs.

   * Eli Zaretskii made many standard Emacs features work on MS-DOS.
     He also wrote `tty-colors.el', which implements transparent
     mapping of X colors to tty colors, and (together with Kenichi
     Handa) `codepage.el', a package for editing text encoded in
     DOS/Windows code pages.

   * Jamie Zawinski wrote:

        - Emacs 19's optimizing byte compiler, with Hallvard Furuseth,

        - much of the support for faces and X selections,

        - `mailabbrev.el', a package providing automatic expansion of
          mail aliases, and

        - `tar-mode.el', providing simple viewing and editing commands
          for tar files.

   * Shenghuo Zhu wrote:

        - `binhex.el', a package for reading and writing binhex files,

        - `mm-partial.el', message/partial support for MIME messages,

        - `rfc1843.el', an HZ decoding package,

        - `uudecode.el', an Emacs Lisp decoder for uuencoded data,

        - `webmail.el', an interface to Web mail.

   * Ian T. Zimmerman wrote `gametree.el'.

   * Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote `vi.el', an emulation of the
     VI text editor.

   * Detlev Zundel wrote `re-builder.el', a package for building regexps
     with visual feedback.


   Others too numerous to mention have reported and fixed bugs, and
added features to many parts of Emacs.  (Many are mentioned in the
`ChangeLog' files which are summarized in the 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.

