(Acknowledgments): Another update based mainly on AUTHORS.

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2009-01-15 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Another update based mainly on AUTHORS.
2009-01-10 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Some more updates based on AUTHORS.

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@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ available in the @file{ChangeLog} files, summarized in the file
@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
@ -89,9 +91,11 @@ footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
@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,
@ -102,8 +106,8 @@ NeXTstep port of Emacs.
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
@ -113,7 +117,8 @@ mode for editing reStructuredText documents.
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
@ -137,7 +142,8 @@ the ``generic mode'' feature.
@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
@ -166,8 +172,8 @@ Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
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
@ -184,8 +190,9 @@ prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
@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
@ -431,7 +438,7 @@ Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
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
@ -467,10 +474,11 @@ Emacs: @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. 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.
@ -608,14 +616,14 @@ He also co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
@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
@ -711,12 +719,12 @@ hiding selected code within C @code{#ifdef} clauses.
@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
@ -866,9 +874,11 @@ Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
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.
@ -889,7 +899,8 @@ for simultaneous two-column editing.
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
@ -899,6 +910,10 @@ 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.
@ -942,11 +957,13 @@ which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
@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
@ -1066,10 +1083,10 @@ recent editing changes.
@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.
@ -1111,9 +1128,9 @@ Emacs, and has been Emacs maintainer over several non-contiguous
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
@ -1171,10 +1188,6 @@ 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.
@item
Jim Thompson wrote @file{ps-print.el}, which converts
Emacs text to PostScript.
@item
Toru Tomabechi contributed to Tibetan support.
@ -1196,9 +1209,10 @@ Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
@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