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1 ;;; about.el --- the About The Authors page (shameless self promotion).
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2 ;;;
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4 ;; Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 XEmacs Advocacy Organization.
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6 ;; This file is part of XEmacs.
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7
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8 ;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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9 ;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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10 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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11 ;; any later version.
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12
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13 ;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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14 ;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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15 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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16 ;; General Public License for more details.
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17
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18 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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19 ;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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20 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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21 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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22
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23 ;;; Synched up with: Not in FSF.
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24
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25 ;;; This is kind of a kludge. We were going to use W3 to do this, but
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26 ;;; it's too slow to load, and HTML gives you too little control over
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27 ;;; the layout (especially indentation and inter-paragraph spacing).
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28 ;;; Maybe the text should have been written in limited HTML anyway,
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29 ;;; and I should have hacked up a simple and fast parser for it, but
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30 ;;; it's done now...
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31 ;;;
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32 ;;; Code: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
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33 ;;; Text: Ben Wing <wing@666.com>, Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
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34 ;;; Hard: Amiga 1000, Progressive Peripherals Frame Grabber.
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35 ;;; Soft: FG 2.0, DigiPaint 3.0, pbmplus (dec 91), xv 3.0.
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36 ;;; Modified for 19.11 by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart <pelegri@eng.sun.com>
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37 ;;; and Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>
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38 ;;; More hacking for 19.12 by Chuck Thompson and Ben Wing.
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39 ;;; 19.13 and 19.14 updating done by Chuck Thompson.
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40 ;;; 19.15 and 20.0 updating done by Steve Baur.
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41
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42 (require 'browse-url)
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43 (require 'view-less)
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44
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45 (defvar about-xref-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
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46 (define-key map 'button1 'about-xemacs-xref)
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47 (define-key map 'button2 'about-xemacs-xref)
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48 (define-key map '(return) 'about-xemacs-xref)
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49 map))
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50
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51 ;; This historically significant variable has been removed from service.
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52 (defvar what-are-we-calling-it-today "XEmacs")
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53
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54 (defun about-face (text face)
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55 (let ((p (point))
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56 e)
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57 (insert text)
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58 (setq e (make-extent p (point)))
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59 ;;(set-extent-property e 'start-open t)
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60 (set-extent-face e face)
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61 e))
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62
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63 (defun about-xref (text xref help)
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64 (let ((e (about-face text 'bold)))
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65 (set-extent-property e 'keymap about-xref-map)
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66 (set-extent-property e 'mouse-face 'highlight)
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67 (set-extent-property e 'xref xref)
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68 (set-extent-property e 'help-echo help)
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69 e))
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70
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71 ;;;###autoload
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72 (defun about-xemacs ()
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73 (interactive)
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74 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "About XEmacs"))
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75 (delete-other-windows)
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76 (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
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77 (widen)
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78 (set (make-local-variable 'tab-width) 8)
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79 (setq buffer-read-only t)
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80 (view-mode nil 'kill-buffer) ;; assume the new view-less
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81 (let* ((buffer-read-only nil)
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82 (emacs-short-version (concat emacs-major-version "." emacs-minor-version))
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83 (emacs-about-version (format "version %s; October 1997" emacs-short-version))
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84 (indent-tabs-mode t)
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85 )
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86 (erase-buffer)
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87 (insert "\n")
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88 (indent-to (startup-center-spaces xemacs-logo))
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89 (let ((e (make-extent (point) (point))))
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90 (set-extent-begin-glyph e xemacs-logo))
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91 (insert "\n\n")
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92 (indent-to (startup-center-spaces "(formerly known as Lucid Emacs)"))
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93 (insert "(formerly known as Lucid Emacs)")
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94 (insert "\n\n")
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95 (indent-to (startup-center-spaces emacs-about-version))
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96 (about-xref emacs-about-version 'news "The latest NEWS of XEmacs")
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97 (insert "\n\n")
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98
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99 (insert "\n\t")
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100 (about-face "XEmacs" 'italic)
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101 (insert " is a powerful, extensible text editor with full GUI
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102 support, initially based on an early version of GNU Emacs 19 from
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103 the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to date with recent
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104 versions of that product. XEmacs stems from a ")
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105 (about-xref "collaboration" 'history "An XEmacs History Lesson")
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106 (insert "\n\tof Lucid, Inc. with Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University
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107 of Illinois with additional support having been provided by
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108 Amdahl Corporation and INS Engineering Corporation.\n\n\t")
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109
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110 (insert "In almost all circumstances, Emacs-Lisp code written for
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111 GNU Emacs versions 18 and 19 will run under XEmacs without
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112 requiring any modifications, or at most will require small
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113 changes to accommodate an improved functional interface.\n\n\t")
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114
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115 (insert "XEmacs provides a great number of ")
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116 (about-xref "new features" 'features "See a list of the new features.")
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117 (insert ". More details
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118 on XEmacs's functionality, including bundled packages can be
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119 obtained through the ")
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120
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121 (about-xref "`info`" 'info "Look at the info pages")
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122 (insert " on-line information system.
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123
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124 The WWW page for XEmacs can be browsed, using any WWW browser, at\n\t\t")
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125 (about-xref "http://www.xemacs.org/" 'w3-xemacs "Go to the XEmacs World Wide Web page")
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126 (insert "\n\n\tNote that w3 (XEmacs's own browser), might need customization
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127 (due to firewalls) in order to work correctly.\n\n\t")
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128
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129 (insert "XEmacs is the result of the time and effort of many people.
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130 The developers responsible for the " emacs-short-version " release are:
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131
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132 * ") (about-xref "Vin Shelton" 'vin "Find out more about Vin Shelton") (insert " <acs@acm.org>
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133 * ") (about-xref "Steve Baur" 'steve "Find out more about Steve Baur") (insert " <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
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134 * ") (about-xref "Martin Buchholz" 'mrb "Find out more about Martin Buchholz") (insert " <mrb@eng.sun.com>
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135
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136 * ") (about-xref "And many other contributors..." 'others "Read about the legion of XEmacs hackers") (insert "
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138 Chuck Thompson was Mr. XEmacs from 19.11 through 19.14. Ben Wing
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139 was crucial to each of those releases.
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140
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141 * ") (about-xref "Chuck Thompson" 'cthomp "Find out more about Chuck Thompson") (insert " <cthomp@xemacs.org>
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142 * ") (about-xref "Ben Wing" 'wing "Find out more about Ben Wing") (insert " <wing@xemacs.org>
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143
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144 Jamie Zawinski was Mr. Lucid Emacs from 19.0 through 19.10,
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145 the last release actually named Lucid Emacs. Richard Mlynarik
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146 was crucial to most of those releases.
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147
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148 * ") (about-xref "Jamie Zawinski" 'jwz "Find out more about Jamie Zawinski") (insert " <jwz@netscape.com>
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149 * ") (about-xref "Richard Mlynarik" 'mly "Find out more about Richard Mlynarik") (insert " <mly@adoc.xerox.com>")
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150 (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
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151 (about-xref "here" 'kill-buffer "Exit the About page")
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152 (insert " to remove (kill) this buffer.")
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153 (goto-char (point-min)))
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154 )
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155
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156 (defun about-load-mosaic (&optional who-to-load)
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157 (save-excursion
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158 (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "About XEmacs"))
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159 (toggle-read-only 0)
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160
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161 (let ((rest (if who-to-load (list who-to-load)
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162 '(steve mrb cthomp wing stig jwz mly vladimir baw piper bw wmperry kyle larsi jens vin dkindred)))
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163 (got-error nil))
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164 (while rest
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165 (let* ((who (car rest))
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166 (who-xpm (expand-file-name
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167 (concat (symbol-name who)
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168 (if (memq (device-class (selected-device))
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169 '(color grayscale))
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170 ""
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171 "m")
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172 ".xpm")
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173 data-directory)))
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174 (or (file-exists-p who-xpm) (setq who-xpm (concat who-xpm ".Z")))
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175 (if (eq nil (assoc who (buffer-local-variables)))
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176 (make-local-variable who))
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177 (if (and (boundp who)
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178 (glyphp (symbol-value who)))
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179 nil
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180 (message "One moment please...")
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181 (condition-case c
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182 (save-restriction
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183 (set who nil)
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184 (narrow-to-region (point) (point))
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185 (insert-file-contents who-xpm)
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186 (if (looking-at "\037\235") ;may already be decompressed...
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187 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
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188 "zcat" t t nil))
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189 (set who (make-glyph
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190 (prog1 (buffer-string)
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191 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)))))
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192 )
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193 (error
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194 (setq got-error t)
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195 (message nil)
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196 (display-error c nil)
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197 (sit-for 2)))))
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198 (setq rest (cdr rest)))
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199 (or got-error (message nil)))
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200 (toggle-read-only 1)
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201 ))
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202
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203 (defun about-add-mosaic ()
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204 (goto-char (point-min))
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205 (about-load-mosaic)
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206 )
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207 ;; HERE TO PLACE ADDITIONAL MUGSHOTS
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208
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209 ;; This is losing badly to a redisplay glitch, and it doesn't scale up.
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210
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211 ; (goto-char (point-max))
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212 ; (insert "\n ")
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213
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214 ; (let ((rest '(steve mrb cthomp wing stig linebreak jwz mly vladimir linebreak baw piper bw linebreak wmperry kyle larsi jens))
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215 ; (got-error nil))
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216 ; (while rest
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217 ; (if (eq (car rest) 'linebreak)
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218 ; (insert "\n\n ")
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219 ; (let* ((who (car rest))
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220 ; (b (get-buffer "About XEmacs"))
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221 ; (p (symbol-value-in-buffer who b nil)))
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222 ; (or (glyphp p) (setq p nil))
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223 ; (and p
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224 ; (let ((e (make-extent (point) (point))))
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225 ; (set-extent-begin-glyph e p)
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226 ; (set-extent-property e 'keymap about-xref-map)
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227 ; (set-extent-property e 'xref who)))
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228 ; (insert " ")
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229 ; (sit-for 0)))
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230 ; (setq rest (cdr rest)))
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231 ; (insert "\n")
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232 ; (goto-char (point-min))
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233 ; (or got-error (message nil)))
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234 ; )
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236 (defvar about-xref-alist
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237 '((w3-xemacs . "http://www.xemacs.org/")
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238 (w3-jamie . "http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/")
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239 (w3-baw . "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/")
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240 (w3-python . "http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/")
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241 (w3-infodock . "http://www.infodock.com")
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242 (w3-kyle . "http://www.wonderworks.com/kyle/")
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243 (w3-dkindred . "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/dkindred/me.html")
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244 (w3-larsi . "http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/")
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245 (w3-hrvoje . "ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/")
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246 (w3-upa . "http://www.upa.org")
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247 ;; add more here
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248 )
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249 "Mappings between xref symbols and URLs")
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250
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252 (interactive "@")
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253 (let* ((e (or current-mouse-event last-input-event))
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254 (extent (or (and (null e) (extent-at (point)))
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255 (and (mouse-event-p e) (event-glyph-extent e))
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256 (extent-at (if (mouse-event-p e)
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257 (event-point e)
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258 (point))
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259 (if (mouse-event-p e)
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260 (event-buffer e)
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261 (current-buffer))
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262 'xref)))
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263 (xref (extent-property extent 'xref))
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264 prev-page)
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265 ;; prev-page is used for the core people's pages since they can be
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266 ;; reached from two different locations
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267 (if (equal (buffer-name) "About XEmacs")
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268 (setq prev-page 'about)
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269 ;; Kill the sub-buffers when going back to the top, so that we
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270 ;; don't hold pointers to the bitmaps longer than necessary.
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271 (if (not (assq xref about-xref-alist))
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272 (progn
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273 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
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274 (setq prev-page 'others))))
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275 (cond
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276 ((eq xref 'about)
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277 (about-xemacs))
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278 ((eq xref 'info)
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279 (info))
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280 ((assq xref about-xref-alist)
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281 (funcall browse-url-browser-function
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282 (cdr (assq xref about-xref-alist))))
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283 ((eq xref 'kill-buffer)
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284 (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
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285 ((eq xref 'news)
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286 (view-emacs-news)
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287 (view-mode nil 'kill-buffer) ;; assume the new view-less
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288 (save-excursion
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289 (goto-char (point-min))
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290 (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
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291 (insert "\nClick ")
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292 (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
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293 (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n\n")
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294 (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
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295 )))
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296 (t
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297 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create
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298 (cond ((eq xref 'jwz) "About Jamie Zawinski")
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299 ((eq xref 'cthomp) "About Chuck Thompson")
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300 ((eq xref 'wing) "About Ben Wing")
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301 ((eq xref 'mly) "About Richard Mlynarik")
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302 ((eq xref 'vladimir) "About Vladimir Ivanovic")
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303 ((eq xref 'baw) "About Barry Warsaw")
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304 ((eq xref 'wmperry) "About William Perry")
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305 ((eq xref 'bw) "About Bob Weiner")
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306 ((eq xref 'piper) "About Andy Piper")
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307 ((eq xref 'stig) "About Jonathan Stigelman")
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308 ((eq xref 'steve) "About Steve Baur")
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309 ((eq xref 'mrb) "About Martin Buchholz")
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310 ((eq xref 'kyle) "About Kyle Jones")
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311 ((eq xref 'larsi) "About Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen")
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312 ((eq xref 'jens) "About Jens Lautenbacher")
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313 ((eq xref 'vin) "About Vin Shelton")
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314 ((eq xref 'dkindred) "About Darrell Kindred")
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315 ((eq xref 'others) "About Everyone")
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316 ((eq xref 'features) "New XEmacs Features")
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317 ((eq xref 'history) "XEmacs History")
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318 (t (error "Can't follow xref: %s" xref))
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319 )))
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320 (delete-other-windows)
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321 (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
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322 (widen)
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323 (setq buffer-read-only t)
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324 (view-mode nil 'kill-buffer) ;; assume the new view-less
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325 (let ((buffer-read-only nil)
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326 (case-fold-search nil)
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327 )
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328 (if (and (not (eq xref 'others)) (not (eq xref 'history))
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329 (not (eq xref 'features)))
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330 (about-load-mosaic xref))
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331 (erase-buffer)
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332 (let* ((b (get-buffer "About XEmacs"))
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333 (p (and b (symbol-value-in-buffer xref b nil))))
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334 (or (glyphp p) (setq p nil))
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335 (cond (p
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336 (insert "\n\t")
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337 (set-extent-begin-glyph (make-extent (point) (point)) p)
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338 (insert "\n\t"))
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339 (t
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340 (insert "\n\t"))))
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341 (cond
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342 ((eq xref 'history)
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343 (insert "Click ")
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344 (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
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345 (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n\n\t")
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346
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347 (about-face "XEmacs" 'bold)
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348 (insert "\n\n\n\t")
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349 (about-face "The Lucid, Inc. Point of View" 'italic)
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350 (insert "
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351
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352 At the time of the inception of Lucid Emacs (the former name
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353 of XEmacs), Lucid's latest product was Energize, a C/C++
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354 development environment. Rather than invent (and force our
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355 users to learn) a new user interface, we chose to build part
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356 of our environment on top of the world's best editor, GNU
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357 Emacs. (Though our product is commercial, the work we did on
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358 GNU Emacs is free software, and is useful in its own right.)
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359
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360 We needed a version of Emacs with mouse-sensitive regions,
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361 multiple fonts, the ability to mark sections of a buffer as
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362 read-only, the ability to detect which parts of a buffer has
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363 been modified, and many other features.
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364
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365 For our purposes, the existing version of Epoch was not
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366 sufficient; it did not allow us to put arbitrary pixmaps/icons
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367 in buffers, `undo' did not restore changes to regions, regions
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368 did not overlap and merge their attributes in the way we needed,
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369 and several other things.
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370
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371 We could have devoted our time to making Epoch do what we needed
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372 (and, in fact, we spent some time doing that in 1990) but, since
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373 the FSF planned to include Epoch-like features in their version
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374 19, we decided that our efforts would be better spent improving
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375 Emacs 19 instead of Epoch.
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376
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377 Our original hope was that our changes to Emacs would be
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378 incorporated into the \"official\" v19. However, scheduling
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379 conflicts arose, and we found that, given the amount of work
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380 still remaining to be done, we didn't have the time or manpower
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381 to do the level of coordination that would be necessary to get
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382 our changes accepted by the FSF. Consequently, we released our
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383 work as a forked branch of Emacs, instead of delaying any
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384 longer.
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385
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386 Roughly a year after Lucid Emacs 19.0 was released, a beta
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387 version of the FSF branch of Emacs 19 was released. The FSF
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388 version is better in some areas, and worse in others, as
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389 reflects the differing focus of our development efforts.
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390
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391 We plan to continue developing and supporting Lucid Emacs, and
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392 merging in bug fixes and new features from the FSF branch as
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393 appropriate; we do not plan to discard any of the functionality
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394 that we implemented which RMS has chosen not to include in his
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395 version.
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396
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397 Certain elements of Lucid Emacs, or derivatives of them, have
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398 been ported to the FSF version. We have not been doing work in
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399 this direction, because we feel that Lucid Emacs has a cleaner
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400 and more extensible substrate, and that any kind of merger
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401 between the two branches would be far easier by merging the FSF
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402 changes into our version than the other way around.
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403
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404 We have been working closely with the Epoch developers to merge
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405 in the remaining Epoch functionality which Lucid Emacs does not
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406 yet have. Epoch and Lucid Emacs will soon be one and the same
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407 thing. Work is being done on a compatibility package which will
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408 allow Epoch 4 code to run in XEmacs with little or no change.")
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411 (about-face "The Sun Microsystems, Inc. Point of View" 'italic)
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412 (insert "
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414 Emacs 18 has been around for a long, long time. Version 19 was
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415 supposed to be the successor to v18 with X support. It was
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416 going to be available \"real soon\" for a long time (some
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417 people remember hearing about v19 as early as 1984!), but it
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418 never came out. v19 development was going very, very slowly,
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419 and from the outside it seemed that it was not moving at all.
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420 In the meantime other people gave up waiting for v19 and
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421 decided to build their own X-aware Emacsen. The most important
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422 of these was probably Epoch, which came from University of
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423 Illinois (\"UofI\") and was based on v18.
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424
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425 Around three or four years ago what was then called SunPro (a
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426 division of Sun Microsystems, Inc.) decided that it wanted an
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427 integrated editor. They contracted with UofI to provide a
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428 number of basic enhancements to the functionality in Epoch.
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429 UofI initially was planning to deliver this on top of Epoch
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430 code.
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431
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432 In the meantime (actually some time before they talked with UofI)
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433 Lucid had decided that it also wanted to provide an integrated
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434 environment with an integrated editor. Lucid decided that the
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435 v19 basis was a better one than v18 and thus decided not to use
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436 Epoch but instead work with Richard Stallman, the head of the
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437 Free Software Foundation and principle author of Emacs, on
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438 getting v19 out. At some point Stallman and Lucid parted ways.
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439 Lucid kept working and got a v19 out that they called Lucid
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440 Emacs 19.
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441
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442 After Lucid's v19 came out it became clear to UofI and SunPro
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443 that the right thing to do was to push for an integration of
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444 both Lucid Emacs and Epoch, and to get the deliverables that
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445 SunPro was asking from UofI on top of this integrated
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446 platform. Through the last three or four years, SunPro has
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447 been actively supporting this product and has been investing a
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448 comparable amount of effort into it as Lucid has. Substantial
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449 portions of the current code have originated under the support
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450 of SunPro, either directly in SunPro, or in UofI but paid for
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451 by SunPro. This code was kept away from Lucid for a while,
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452 but later was made available to them. Initially Lucid didn't
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453 know that SunPro was supporting UofI, but later they were open
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454 about it.
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455
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456 Around two years ago the SunPro-related code started showing up
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457 in Lucid Emacs. This started with the infusion of the Epoch
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458 redisplay code.
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459
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460 At this moment there is basically no difference in the source
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461 trees between what is at UofI and at Sun. All the development
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462 sites are in sync.
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463
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464 SunPro originally called the integrated product ERA, for
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465 \"Emacs Rewritten Again\". SunPro and Lucid eventually came
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466 to an agreement to find a name for the product that was not
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467 specific to either company. An additional constraint that
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468 Lucid placed on the name was that it must contain the word
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469 \"Emacs\" in it -- thus \"ERA\" was not acceptable. The
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470 tentatively agreed-upon name was \"XEmacs\", and this has
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471 been the name of the product since version 19.11.)")
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476 In mid-'94 Sun completed a reorganization where SunPro moved
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477 to SunSoft. As a consequence, SunPro was then called SunSoft
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478 Developer Products, or DevPro for short. De-planetization is
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479 continuing in 1996, and the name `Sunsoft' is falling into
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480 disuse in favour of `Sun'.")
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483 (about-face "Lucid goes under\n" 'italic)
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484 (insert "
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485 Around mid-'94, Lucid went out of business. Development on
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486 XEmacs, however, has continued unabated under the auspices of
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487 Sun Microsystems and the University of Illinois, with help
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488 from Amdahl Corporation and INS Engineering Corporation.
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489 Sun plans to continue to support XEmacs into the future.")
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490
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492 (about-face "The Amdahl Corporation point of view" 'italic)
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493 (insert "
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494
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495 Amdahl Corporation's Storage Products Group (SPG) uses XEmacs
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496 as the focal point of a environment for development of the
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497 microcode used in Amdahl's large-scale disk arrays, or DASD's.
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498 SPG has joint ventures with Japanese companies, and decided
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499 in late 1994 to contract out for work on XEmacs in order
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500 to hasten the development of Mule support (i.e. support for
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501 Japanese, Chinese, etc.) in XEmacs and as a gesture of goodwill
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502 towards the XEmacs community for all the work they have done
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503 on making a powerful, modern, freely available text editor.
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504 Through this contract, Amdahl provided a large amount of work
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505 in XEmacs in the form of rewriting the basic text-processing
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506 mechanisms to allow for Mule support and writing a large
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507 amount of the support for multiple devices.
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508
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509 Although Amdahl is no longer hiring a full-time contractor,
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510 they are still funding part-time work on XEmacs and providing
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511 resources for further XEmacs development.")
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517 INS Engineering Corporation, based in Tokyo, bought rights
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518 to sell Energize when Lucid went out of business. Unhappy
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519 with the performance of the Japanese support in XEmacs 19.11,
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520 INS also contributed to the XEmacs development from late 1994
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521 to early 1995.")
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534 Jamie Zawinski was primarily to blame for Lucid Emacs from its
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535 inception in 1991, to 1994 when Lucid Inc. finally died. He is
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536 now to be found at Netscape Communications, hacking on Netscape
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537 Navigator (he did the first Unix version and the mail reader).
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538 Thankfully his extensive sleep deprivation experiments conducted
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539 during 1994 and 1995 are now a thing of the past, but his
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540 predilection for dark, Gothic music remains unabated.
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541
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542 Come visit his glorified .plan file at
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543
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544 ")
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545 (about-xref "http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/" 'w3-jamie "Visit Jamie's WWW page")
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551 (about-face "Steve Baur" 'bold)
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552 (insert " <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
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553
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554 Steve took over the maintenance of XEmacs in November of 1996
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555 (it seemed like a good idea at the time ...). In real life he is a
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556 network administrator for Calag.com, Inc. A small ISP in central
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557 California. His main hobby while not maintaining XEmacs or working
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558 is ... you have got to be kidding ...")
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563 )
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565 (about-face "Martin Buchholz" 'bold)
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566 (insert " <mrb@eng.sun.com>
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567
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568 Martin Buchholz <Martin.Buchholz@sun.com>
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569 Technical lead for XEmacs at DevPro (formerly SunPro), a
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570 division of Sun Microsystems. Martin used to do XEmacs as a
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571 `hobby' while at IBM, and was crazy enough to try to do it
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572 for a living at Sun. Martin is currently working mostly on
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573 Internationalization.")
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574
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580 (about-face "Chuck Thompson" 'bold)
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581 (insert " <cthomp@xemacs.org>
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582
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583 Chuck, through being in the wrong place at the right time, has
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584 gotten stuck with being Jamie's replacement as the primary
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585 maintainer of XEmacs. This has caused his hair to begin
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586 falling out and quadrupled his daily coffee dosage. Though he
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587 works at and for the University of Illinois his funding for
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588 XEmacs work actually came from Sun Microsystems.
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589
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590 He has worked on XEmacs since November 1992, which fact
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591 occasionally gives him nightmares. As of October 1995, he no
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592 longer works full-time on XEmacs, though he does continue as
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593 an active maintainer. His main contributions have been the
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594 greatly enhanced redisplay engine, scrollbar support, the
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595 toolbars, configure support and numerous other minor features
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596 and fixes.
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597
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598 Rumors that Chuck is aka Black Francis aka Frank Black are
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599 completely unfounded.")
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604 )
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606 (about-face "Ben Wing" 'bold)
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607 (insert " <wing@666.com>
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608
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609 I'm not a thug -- I just play one on video.
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610 My roommate says I'm a San Francisco \"Mission Critter\".\n\n\t")
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611 (about-face "Gory stuff follows:" 'italic)
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613
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614 In 1992 I left a stuffy East-Coast university, set out into the
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615 real world, and ended up a co-founder of Pearl Software. As
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616 part of this company, I became the principal architect of
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617 Win-Emacs, a port of Lucid Emacs to Microsoft Windows and
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618 Windows NT (for more info, e-mail to ")
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619 (about-face "info@pearlsoft.com" 'italic)
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620 (insert ").
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621
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622 Since April 1993, I've worked on XEmacs as a contractor
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623 for various companies, changing hats faster than Ronald Reagan's
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624 hair color (oops, did I just show my age?). My main contributions
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625 to XEmacs include rewriting large parts of the internals and the
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626 gory Xt/Xlib interfacing, adding the Mule support, implementing
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627 the external client widget, improving the documentation (especially
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628 the Emacs Lisp manual), and being a general nuisance ... er,
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629 brainstormer for many of the new features of XEmacs.
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630
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631 Recently I took a job at Dimension X, where I'm working on a
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632 Java-based toolkit for developing VRML applications.")
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636 )
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638 (about-face "Richard Mlynarik" 'bold)
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639 (insert " <mly@adoc.xerox.com>
|
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640
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641 Cars are Evil. Ride a bike.")
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642
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646 )
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647 ((eq xref 'vladimir)
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648 (about-face "Vladimir Ivanovic" 'bold)
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649 (insert " <vladimir@mri.com>
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650
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651 Former technical lead for XEmacs at DevPro (formerly SunPro),
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652 a division of Sun Microsystems. He is now with Microtec
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653 Research Inc., working on embedded systems development
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654 tools.")
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662 (about-face "Barry Warsaw" 'bold)
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664
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665 Author of CC Mode, for C, C++, Objective-C, and Java editing,
|
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666 and Supercite for mail and news citing. Also various and
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667 sundry other Emacs packages, utilities, fixes, enhancements
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668 and kludgery as whimsy, boredom, and ToT dictate (but not
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669 necessarily in that order). See also:\n
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670 ")
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671 (about-xref "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/" 'w3-baw
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672 "Visit Barry's WWW page")
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673 (insert "\n and:
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674 ")
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675 (about-xref "http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/" 'w3-python
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676 "Visit the CC Mode distribution")
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678
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680 © 1994 Warsaw
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682 Drive me Daddy, drive me quick
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683 Push my pedal, shift my stick
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684 Fill me up with golden gas
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685 My rubber squeals, I go real fast
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686
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687 Milk me Daddy, milk me now
|
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688 Milk me like a big ol' cow
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689 I've got milk inside my udder
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690 Churn it up and make some butter")
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698 (about-face "Bob Weiner" 'bold)
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700
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701 Author of the Hyperbole everyday information management
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702 hypertext system and the OO-Browser multi-language code
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703 browser. He also designed the InfoDock integrated tool
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704 framework for software engineers. It runs atop XEmacs and is
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705 available from his firm, InfoDock Associates, which offers custom
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706 development and support packages for corporate users of XEmacs,
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707 GNU Emacs and InfoDock. See ")
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709 "Visit the Infodock WWW page")
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711 His interests include user interfaces, information management,
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712 CASE tools, communications and enterprise integration.")
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720 (about-face "Andy Piper" 'bold)
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721 (insert " <andyp@parallax.co.uk>
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722
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723 Author of the original \"fake\" XEmacs toolbar, and outl-mouse for
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724 mouse gesture based outlining. Accomplished kludge contributor.")
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725
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730
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732 (about-face "Jonathan Stigelman" 'bold)
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733 (insert " <stig@hackvan.com>
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734
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735 Stig is sort of a tool fetishist. He has a hate/love relationship
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736 with computers and he hacks on XEmacs because it's a good tool that
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737 makes computers somewhat less of a nuisance. Besides XEmacs, Stig
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738 especially likes his Leatherman, his Makita, and his lockpicks.
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739 Stig wants a MIG welder and air tools.
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740
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741 Stig likes to perch, hang from the ceiling, and climb on the walls.
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742 Stig has a cool van. Stig would like to be able to telecommute
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743 from, say, the north rim of the Grand Canyon or the midst of Baja.")
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744
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749
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751 (about-face "William Perry" 'bold)
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752 (insert " <wmperry@spry.com>
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753
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754 Author of Emacs-w3, the builtin web browser that comes with XEmacs,
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755 and various additions to the C code (e.g. the database support,
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756 the PNG support, some of the GIF/JPEG support, the strikethru
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757 face attribute support).
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769
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770 Author of VM, a mail-reading package that is included in
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771 the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of many
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772 improvements and bug fixes. Unlike RMAIL and MH-E, VM
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773 uses the standard UNIX mailbox format for its folders;
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774 thus, you can use VM concurrently with other UNIX mail
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778 "Visit Kyle's WWW page")
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787
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788 Author of Gnus the Usenet news and Mail reading package in
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789 the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of various
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790 enhancements and portability fixes. Lars is a student at the
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791 Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo. He is
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792 currently plumbing away at his majors work at the Institute of
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793 Physics, working on an SCI project connected with CASCADE and
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794 CERN and stuff.
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807
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808 Jens did the artwork for graphics added to XEmacs 20.1 and 19.15.
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810 I'm currently working at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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811 on getting my diploma thesis on Supersymmetry (uuh, that's
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812 physics) done. After that (and all the remaining exams) I'm
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813 looking forward to make a living out of my hobbies --
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814 computers (and graphics). But because I have no deadline for
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815 the exams and XEmacs betas are released at a high rate this
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816 may take some time...")
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824 (about-face "Vin Shelton" 'bold)
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826
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827 Vin maintains the XEmacs patch pages in order to bring ") (about-face "you" 'italic) (insert " a more
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828 stable XEmacs. (Actually, he does it 'cause it's fun and he's been
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829 using emacs for a long, long time.) Vin also contributed the detached
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830 minibuffer code as well as a few minor enhancements to the menubar
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831 options.
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832
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833 I own and operate my own consulting firm, EtherSoft. Shhh, don't
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834 tell anyone, but it's named after an Ultimate team I used to play
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835 with in Austin, Texas - the Ether Bunnies. I'm getting too old
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836 to play competitive Ultimate any more, so now I've gotten roped
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837 into serving on the board of directors of the Ultimate Players
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838 Association. See ")
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839 (about-xref "http://www.upa.org/" 'w3-upa "Visit the UPA homepage")
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844 )
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848 (insert " <dkindred@cmu.edu>
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849
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850 Darrell tends to come out of the woodwork a couple of weeks
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851 before a new release with a flurry of fixes for bugs that
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852 annoy him. He hopes he's spared you from a core dump or two.
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853
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854 Darrell is currently a doctoral student in computer science at
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855 Carnegie Mellon University, but he's trying hard to kick that
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856 habit.
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858 See ")
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860 'w3-dkindred "Visit Darrell's WWW page")
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871 (about-face "Other Contributors to XEmacs" 'italic)
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872
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873 (insert "
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874
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875 Like most free software, XEmacs is a collaborative effort.
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876 These are some of the contributors; we have no doubt forgotten
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877 someone; we apologize! You can see some of our faces further below.
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878
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879 ") (about-xref "Vladimir Ivanovic" 'vladimir "Find out more about Vladimir Ivanovic") (insert " <vladimir@mri.com>
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880 Former technical lead for XEmacs at Sun Microsystems. He is
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881 now with Microtec Research Inc., working on embedded systems
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882 development tools.
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883
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884 ") (about-xref "Jonathan Stigelman" 'stig "Find out more about Jonathan Stigelman") (insert " <stig@hackvan.com>
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885 Peripatetic uninominal Emacs hacker. Stig sometimes operates
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886 out of a big white van set up for nomadic living and hacking.
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887 Implemented the faster stay-up Lucid menus and hyper-apropos.
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888 Contributor of many dispersed improvements in the core Lisp code,
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889 and back-seat contributor for several of it's major packages.
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892 Author of CC Mode for C, C++, Objective-C and Java editing,
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893 and Supercite for mail and news citing. Also various and
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894 sundry other Emacs packages, utilities, fixes, enhancements
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895 and kludgery as whimsy, boredom, and ToT dictate (but not
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896 necessarily in that order). See also:
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897 ")
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898 (about-xref "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/" 'w3-baw
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899 "Visit Barry's WWW page")
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901 ")
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903 "Visit Barry's Emacs Goodies page")
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904 (insert "
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905
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907 Created the prototype for the toolbars. Has been the first to make
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908 use of many of the new XEmacs graphics features.
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911 Author of the Hyperbole everyday information management
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912 hypertext system and the OO-Browser multi-language code
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913 browser. He also designed the InfoDock integrated tool
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914 framework for software engineers. It runs atop XEmacs and is
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915 available from his firm, InfoDock Associates, which offers custom
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916 development and support packages for corporate users of XEmacs,
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917 GNU Emacs and InfoDock. See ")
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918 (about-xref "http://www.infodock.com" 'w3-infodock
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919 "Visit the Infodock WWW page")
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920 (insert ".
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921 His interests include user interfaces, information management,
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922 CASE tools, communications and enterprise integration.
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923
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924 ") (about-xref "William Perry" 'wmperry "Find out more about Bill Perry") (insert " <wmperry@aventail.com>
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925 Author of Emacs-w3, the builtin web browser that comes with XEmacs,
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926 and various additions to the C code (e.g. the database support,
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927 the PNG support, some of the GIF/JPEG support, the strikethru
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928 face attribute support).
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929
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931 Author of VM, a mail-reading package that is included in
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932 the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of many
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933 improvements and bug fixes. Unlike RMAIL and MH-E, VM
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934 uses the standard UNIX mailbox format for its folders;
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935 thus, you can use VM concurrently with other UNIX mail
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936 readers such as Berkeley Mail and ELM.
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937 See ")
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938 (about-xref "http://www.wonderworks.com/kyle/" 'w3-kyle
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939 "Visit Kyle's WWW page")
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940 (insert ".
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941
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942 ") (about-xref "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen" 'larsi "Find out more about Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen") (insert " <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
|
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943 Author of Gnus the Usenet news and Mail reading package in
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944 the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of various
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945 enhancements and portability fixes. Lars is a student at the
|
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946 Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo. He is
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947 currently plumbing away at his majors work at the Institute of
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948 Physics, working on an SCI project connected with CASCADE and
|
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949 CERN and stuff.
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950 See ")
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951 (about-xref "http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/" 'w3-larsi
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952 "Visit Lars' WWW page")
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953 (insert ".
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954
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44
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956 I'm currently working at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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957 on getting my diploma thesis on Supersymmetry (uuh, that's
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958 physics) done. After that (and all the remaining exams) I'm
|
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959 looking forward to make a living out of my hobbies --
|
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960 computers (and graphics). But because I have no deadline for
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961 the exams and XEmacs betas are released at a high rate this
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962 may take some time...
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963
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964 ") (about-xref "Vin Shelton" 'vin "Find out more about Vin Shelton") (insert " <acs@acm.org>
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965 Vin maintains the XEmacs patch pages. Vin also contributed the
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966 detached minibuffer code, as well as a few minor enhancements to
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967 the menubar options.
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968
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969 ") (about-xref "Darrell Kindred" 'dkindred "Find out more about Darrell Kindred") (insert " <dkindred@cmu.edu>
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970 Long-time bug tracker and exterminator for XEmacs and
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971 Lucid Emacs.
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0
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972
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973 Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart <pelegri@eng.sun.com>
|
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974 Author of EOS, a package included in the standard XEmacs
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975 distribution that integrates XEmacs with the SPARCworks
|
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976 development environment from SunPro. Past lead for XEmacs
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977 at SunPro; advocated the validity of using Epoch, and later
|
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978 Lemacs, at SunPro through several early prototypes.
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979
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980 Matthieu Devin <devin@rs.com>
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981 Part of the original (pre-19.0) Lucid Emacs development team.
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982 Matthieu wrote the initial Energize interface, designed the
|
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983 toolkit-independent Lucid Widget library, and fixed enough
|
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984 redisplay bugs to last a lifetime. The features in Lucid
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985 Emacs were largely inspired by Matthieu's initial prototype
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986 of an Energize interface using Epoch.
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987
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988 Harlan Sexton <hbs@odi.com>
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989 Part of the original (pre-19.0) Lucid Emacs development team.
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990 Harlan designed and implemented many of the low level data
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991 structures which are original to the Lucid version of Emacs,
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992 including extents and hash tables.
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993
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994 Eric Benson <eb@kaleida.com>
|
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995 Part of the original (pre-19.0) Lucid Emacs development team.
|
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996 Eric played a big part in the design of many aspects of the
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997 system, including the new command loop and keymaps, fixed
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998 numerous bugs, and has been a reliable beta tester ever
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999 since.
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1000
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1001 John Rose <john.rose@sun.com>
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1002 Author of many extensions to the `extents' code, including
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1003 the initial implementation of `duplicable' properties.
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1004
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1005 Hans Muller <hmuller@eng.sun.com>
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1006 Author of the code used to connect XEmacs with ToolTalk,
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1007 and of an early client of the external Emacs widget.
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0
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1008
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1009 David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>
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1010 David has contributed greatly to the quest to speed up XEmacs.
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1011 He is a student in the Computer Systems Laboratory at UCSD.
|
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1012 When he manages to have free time, he usually spends it on 200
|
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1013 mile bicycle rides, learning german or showing people the best
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1014 mail & news environment he's found in 10 years. (That'd be
|
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1015 XEmacs, Gnus and bbdb, of course.) He can be found at
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1016 `druidmuck.egbt.org 4201' at various hours of the day.
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1017
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1018 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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1019 Hrvoje is currently a student at the Faculty of Electrical
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1020 Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. He works part-
|
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1021 time at SRCE, where he helps run the network machines.
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1022 In his free time he is helping develop free software (especially
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1023 XEmacs, as well as GNU software) and is writing his own -- he has
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1024 written a small network mirroring utility Wget, see
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1025 ")
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1026 (about-xref "ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/"
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1027 'w3-hrvoje "Visit Hrvoje's Wget distribution")
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1028 (insert "
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1029
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0
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1030 In addition to those just mentioned, the following people have
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1031 spent a great deal of effort providing feedback, testing beta
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1032 versions of XEmacs, providing patches to the source code,
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1033 or doing all of the above. We couldn't have done it without
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1034 them.
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1035
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1036 Nagi M. Aboulenein <aboulene@ponder.csci.unt.edu>
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1037 Gary Adams <gra@zeppo.East.Sun.COM>
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1038 Gennady Agranov <agranov@csa.CS.Technion.Ac.IL>
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1039 Mark Allender <allender@vnet.IBM.COM>
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1040 Butch Anton <butch@zaphod.uchicago.edu>
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1041 Fred Appelman <Fred.Appelman@cv.ruu.nl>
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1042 Erik \"The Pope\" Arneson <lazarus@mind.net>
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1043 Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
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1044 Mike Battaglia <mbattagl@dsccc.com>
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1045 Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
|
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1046 Paul Bibilo <peb@delcam.com>
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1047 Jan Borchers <job@tk.uni-linz.ac.at>
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1048 Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>
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1049 David P. Boswell <daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com>
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1050 Tim Bradshaw <tfb@edinburgh.ac.uk>
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1051 Rick Braumoeller <rickb@mti.sgi.com>
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1052 Matthew J. Brown <mjb@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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1053 Alastair Burt <burt@dfki.uni-kl.de>
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1054 Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
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1055 Richard Caley <rjc@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk>
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1056 Stephen Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com>
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1057 Philippe Charton <charton@lmd.ens.fr>
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1058 Peter Cheng <peter.cheng@sun.com>
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1059 Jin S. Choi <jin@atype.com>
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1060 Tomasz J. Cholewo <tjchol01@mecca.spd.louisville.edu>
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1061 Serenella Ciongoli <czs00@ladybug.oes.amdahl.com>
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1062 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr>
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1063 Andy Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
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1064 Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au>
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1065 Nick J. Crabtree <nickc@scopic.com>
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1066 Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
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1067 Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu>
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1068 Michael Diers <mdiers@logware.de>
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1069 William G. Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
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1070 Samuel J. Eaton <samuele@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
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1071 Carl Edman <cedman@Princeton.EDU>
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1072 Dave Edmondson <davided@sco.com>
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1073 Jonathan Edwards <edwards@intranet.com>
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1074 Eric Eide <eeide@asylum.cs.utah.edu>
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1075 EKR <ekr@terisa.com>
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1076 Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch>
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1077 David Fletcher <frodo@tsunami.com>
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1078 Paul Flinders <ptf@delcam.co.uk>
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1079 Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
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1080 Jerry Frain <jerry@sneffels.tivoli.com>
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1081 Benjamin Fried <bf@morgan.com>
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1082 Barry Friedman <friedman@bnr.ca>
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1083 Lew Gaiter III <lew@StarFire.com>
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1084 Itay Gat <itay@cs.huji.ac.il>
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1085 Tim Geisler <Tim.Geisler@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
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1086 Dave Gillespie <daveg@synaptics.com>
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1087 Christian F. Goetze <cg@bigbook.com>
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1088 Wolfgang Grieskamp <wg@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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1089 James Grinter <jrg@demon.net>
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1090 Ben Gross <bgross@uiuc.edu>
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1091 Dirk Grunwald <grunwald@foobar.cs.Colorado.EDU>
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1092 Dipankar Gupta <dg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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1093 Markus Gutschke <gutschk@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
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1094 Adam Hammer <hammer@cs.purdue.edu>
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1095 Magnus Hammerin <magnush@epact.se>
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1096 ChangGil Han <cghan@phys401.phys.pusan.ac.kr>
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1097 Derek Harding <dharding@lssec.bt.co.uk>
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1098 Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net>
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1099 John Haxby <J.Haxby@isode.com>
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1100 Jareth \"JHod\" Hein <jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp>
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1101 Benedikt Heinen <beh@icemark.thenet.ch>
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1102 Stephan Herrmann <sh@first.gmd.de>
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1103 Charles Hines <chuck_hines@VNET.IBM.COM>
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1104 David Hughes <djh@harston.cv.com>
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1105 Andrew Innes <andrewi@harlequin.co.uk>
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1106 Markku Jarvinen <Markku.Jarvinen@simpukka.funet.fi>
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1107 Robin Jeffries <robin.jeffries@sun.com>
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1108 Philip Johnson <johnson@uhics.ics.Hawaii.Edu>
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1109 J. Kean Johnston <jkj@paradigm-sa.com>
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1110 Andreas Kaempf <andreas@sccon.com>
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1111 Doug Keller <dkeller@vnet.ibm.com>
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1112 Hunter Kelly <retnuh@corona>
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0
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1113 Gregor Kennedy <gregork@dadd.ti.com>
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1114 Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
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1115 Yasuhiko Kiuchi <kiuchi@dsp.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>
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16
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1116 Greg Klanderman <greg@alphatech.com>
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1117 Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
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1118 Jens Krinke <krinke@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
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1119 Mats Larsson <Mats.Larsson@uab.ericsson.se>
|
0
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1120 Jens Lautenbacher <jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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1121 Simon Leinen <simon@instrumatic.ch>
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1122 Carsten Leonhardt <leo@arioch.tng.oche.de>
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1123 James LewisMoss <moss@cs.sc.edu>
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1124 Mats Lidell <mats.lidell@contactor.se>
|
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1125 Matt Liggett <mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu>
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1126 Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@nice.ch>
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1127 Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com>
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1128 Damon Lipparelli <lipp@aa.net>
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1129 Hamish Macdonald <hamish@bnr.ca>
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1130 Ian MacKinnon <imackinnon@telia.co.uk>
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0
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1131 Patrick MacRoberts <macro@hpcobr30.cup.hp.com>
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1132 Tonny Madsen <Tonny.Madsen@netman.dk>
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1133 Ketil Z Malde <ketil@ii.uib.no>
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1134 Steve March <smarch@quaver.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
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16
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1135 Pekka Marjola <pema@iki.fi>
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1136 Simon Marshall <simon@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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0
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1137 Dave Mason <dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
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1138 Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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1139 Michael Meissner <meissner@osf.org>
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1140 David M. Meyer <meyer@ns.uoregon.edu>
|
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1141 Brad Miller <bmiller@cs.umn.edu>
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1142 Jeff Miller <jmiller@bay1.bayserve.net>
|
0
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1143 John Morey <jmorey@crl.com>
|
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1144 Rob Mori <rob.mori@sun.com>
|
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1145 Heiko Muenkel <muenkel@tnt.uni-hannover.de>
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1146 Arup Mukherjee <arup+@cs.cmu.edu>
|
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1147 Colas Nahaboo <Colas.Nahaboo@sophia.inria.fr>
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1148 Lynn D. Newton <lynn@ives.phx.mcd.mot.com>
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16
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1149 Casey Nielson <knielson@joule.elee.calpoly.edu>
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0
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1150 Georg Nikodym <Georg.Nikodym@canada.sun.com>
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16
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1151 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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0
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1152 Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
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1153 Joseph J. Nuspl Jr. <nuspl@cc.purdue.edu>
|
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1154 Kim Nyberg <kny@tekla.fi>
|
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1155 David Ofelt <ofelt@getalife.Stanford.EDU>
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1156 Tore Olsen <toreo@colargol.idb.hist.no>
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0
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1157 Greg Onufer <Greg.Onufer@eng.sun.com>
|
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1158 Achim Oppelt <aoppelt@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
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1159 Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@op.net>
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1160 Sudeep Kumar Palat <palat@idt.unit.no>
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1161 Marc Paquette <Marc.Paquette@Softimage.com>
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1162 Jens-U H Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
|
16
|
1163 Joel Peterson <tarzan@aosi.com>
|
0
|
1164 Thomas A. Peterson <tap@src.honeywell.com>
|
|
1165 Peter Pezaris <pez@dwwc.com>
|
|
1166 Tibor Polgar <tlp00@eng.amdahl.com>
|
16
|
1167 Frederic Poncin <fp@info.ucl.ac.be>
|
0
|
1168 E. Rehmi Post <rehmi@asylum.sf.ca.us>
|
16
|
1169 Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>
|
0
|
1170 Paul M Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
|
|
1171 Jack Repenning <jackr@sgi.com>
|
|
1172 Daniel Rich <drich@cisco.com>
|
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1173 Roland Rieke <rol@darmstadt.gmd.de>
|
|
1174 Russell Ritchie <ritchier@msc.ie>
|
16
|
1175 Roland <rol@darmstadt.gmd.de>
|
0
|
1176 Mike Russell <mjruss@rchland.vnet.ibm.com>
|
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1177 Jan Sandquist <etxquist@iqa.ericsson.se>
|
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1178 Marty Sasaki <sasaki@spdcc.com>
|
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1179 Mike Scheidler <c23mts@eng.delcoelect.com>
|
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1180 Darrel Schneider <darrel@slc.com>
|
|
1181 Hayden Schultz <haydens@ll.mit.edu>
|
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1182 Cotton Seed <cottons@cybercom.net>
|
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1183 Axel Seibert <seiberta@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
|
|
1184 Odd-Magne Sekkingstad <oddms@ii.uib.no>
|
16
|
1185 Vinnie Shelton <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>
|
0
|
1186 John Shen <zfs60@cas.org>
|
16
|
1187 Murata Shuuichirou <mrt@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
|
0
|
1188 Jeffrey Sparkes <jsparkes@bnr.ca>
|
|
1189 Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
|
|
1190 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu>
|
|
1191 Francois Staes <frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be>
|
|
1192 Jason Stewart <jasons@cs.unm.edu>
|
|
1193 Rick Tait <rickt@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
|
|
1194 James Thompson <thompson@wg2.waii.com>
|
|
1195 Morioka Tomohiko <morioka@jaist.ac.jp>
|
|
1196 Raymond L. Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>
|
|
1197 John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov>
|
16
|
1198 Juan E. Villacis <jvillaci@cs.indiana.edu>
|
56
|
1199 Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
|
0
|
1200 Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir@intrepid.com>
|
|
1201 Peter Ware <ware@cis.ohio-state.edu>
|
|
1202 Yoav Weiss <yoav@zeus.datasrv.co.il>
|
|
1203 Rod Whitby <rwhitby@asc.corp.mot.com>
|
|
1204 Rich Williams <rdw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
1205 David C Worenklein <dcw@gcm.com>
|
|
1206 Takeshi Yamada <yamada@sylvie.kecl.ntt.jp>
|
|
1207 Jason Yanowitz <yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu>
|
|
1208 La Monte Yarroll <piggy@hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au>
|
|
1209 Blair Zajac <blair@olympia.gps.caltech.edu>
|
|
1210 Daniel Zivkovic <daniel@canada.sun.com>
|
|
1211 Karel Zuiderveld <Karel.Zuiderveld@cv.ruu.nl>
|
|
1212 and the makers of Jolt Cola (tm)")
|
|
1213 (goto-char (point-min))
|
|
1214 (while (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*\\([^<>\n]+\\) <[^>\n]+>$"
|
|
1215 nil t)
|
|
1216 (set-extent-face (make-extent (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
|
|
1217 'bold))
|
|
1218 (goto-char (point-min))
|
|
1219 (while (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*<\\([^>\n]+\\)>$" nil t)
|
|
1220 (set-extent-face (make-extent (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
|
|
1221 'bold))
|
|
1222
|
|
1223 (goto-char (point-max))
|
|
1224 (insert "\n")
|
|
1225 (about-add-mosaic)
|
|
1226 (goto-char (point-max))
|
|
1227 (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
|
|
1228 (about-xref "here" 'about "Return to previous page")
|
|
1229 (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
|
|
1230 )
|
|
1231 ((eq xref 'features)
|
|
1232 (insert "Click ")
|
|
1233 (about-xref "here" 'about "Return to previous page")
|
|
1234 (insert " to go back to the previous page\n\n\t")
|
|
1235
|
|
1236 (about-face "New Features in XEmacs" 'bold-italic)
|
|
1237
|
|
1238 (insert "\n
|
|
1239 * A real toolbar.
|
|
1240 * Proper integration with Xt and Motif (including Motif menubars
|
|
1241 and scrollbars). Motif look-alike menubars and scrollbars
|
|
1242 are provided for those systems without real Motif support.
|
|
1243 * Face support on TTY's, including color.
|
|
1244 * Horizontal and vertical scrollbars in all windows.
|
|
1245 * Support for variable-width and variable height fonts.
|
|
1246 * Support for display on multiple simultaneous X and/or TTY devices.
|
|
1247 * Support for arbitrary pixmaps in a buffer.
|
|
1248 * Access to the ToolTalk API.
|
|
1249 * Support for using XEmacs frames as Xt widgets.
|
|
1250 * Support for overlapping regions (or extents) and efficient handling
|
|
1251 of a large number of such extents in a single buffer.
|
|
1252 * Powerful, flexible control over the display characteristics
|
|
1253 of most of the visual aspects of XEmacs through the use
|
|
1254 of specifiers, which allow separate values to be specified
|
|
1255 for individual buffers, windows, frames, devices, device classes,
|
|
1256 and device types.
|
|
1257 * A clean interface to the menubar, window-system events, and key
|
|
1258 combinations."))
|
|
1259 ))
|
|
1260 (goto-char (point-min))
|
|
1261 ))))
|
30
|
1262
|
|
1263 ;;; about.el ends here
|