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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; March 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 "Steve Baur" 'steve "Find out more about Steve Baur") (insert " <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
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133 * ") (about-xref "Martin Buchholz" 'mrb "Find out more about Martin Buchholz") (insert " <mrb@eng.sun.com>
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134
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135 * ") (about-xref "And many other contributors..." 'others "Read about the legion of XEmacs hackers") (insert "
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136
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137 Chuck Thompson was Mr. XEmacs from 19.11 through 19.14. Ben Wing
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138 was crucial to each of those releases.
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140 * ") (about-xref "Chuck Thompson" 'cthomp "Find out more about Chuck Thompson") (insert " <cthomp@xemacs.org>
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141 * ") (about-xref "Ben Wing" 'wing "Find out more about Ben Wing") (insert " <wing@xemacs.org>
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142
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143 Jamie Zawinski was Mr. Lucid Emacs from 19.0 through 19.10,
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144 the last release actually named Lucid Emacs. Richard Mlynarik
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145 was crucial to most of those releases.
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146
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147 * ") (about-xref "Jamie Zawinski" 'jwz "Find out more about Jamie Zawinski") (insert " <jwz@netscape.com>
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148 * ") (about-xref "Richard Mlynarik" 'mly "Find out more about Richard Mlynarik") (insert " <mly@adoc.xerox.com>")
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149 (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
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150 (about-xref "here" 'kill-buffer "Exit the About page")
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151 (insert " to remove (kill) this buffer.")
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152 (goto-char (point-min)))
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153 )
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154
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155 (defun about-load-mosaic (&optional who-to-load)
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156 (save-excursion
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157 (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "About XEmacs"))
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158 (toggle-read-only 0)
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159
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160 (let ((rest (if who-to-load (list who-to-load)
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161 '(steve mrb cthomp wing stig jwz mly vladimir baw piper bw wmperry kyle larsi jens)))
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162 (got-error nil))
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163 (while rest
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164 (let* ((who (car rest))
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165 (who-xpm (expand-file-name
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166 (concat (symbol-name who)
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167 (if (memq (device-class (selected-device))
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168 '(color grayscale))
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169 ""
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170 "m")
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171 ".xpm")
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172 data-directory)))
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173 (or (file-exists-p who-xpm) (setq who-xpm (concat who-xpm ".Z")))
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174 (if (eq nil (assoc who (buffer-local-variables)))
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175 (make-local-variable who))
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176 (if (and (boundp who)
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177 (glyphp (symbol-value who)))
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178 nil
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179 (message "One moment please...")
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180 (condition-case c
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181 (save-restriction
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182 (set who nil)
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183 (narrow-to-region (point) (point))
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184 (insert-file-contents who-xpm)
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185 (if (looking-at "\037\235") ;may already be decompressed...
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186 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
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187 "zcat" t t nil))
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188 (set who (make-glyph
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189 (prog1 (buffer-string)
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190 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)))))
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191 )
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192 (error
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193 (setq got-error t)
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194 (message nil)
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195 (display-error c nil)
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196 (sit-for 2)))))
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197 (setq rest (cdr rest)))
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198 (or got-error (message nil)))
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199 (toggle-read-only 1)
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200 ))
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201
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202 (defun about-add-mosaic ()
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203 (goto-char (point-min))
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204 (about-load-mosaic)
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205 )
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206 ;; HERE TO PLACE ADDITIONAL MUGSHOTS
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207
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208 ;; This is losing badly to a redisplay glitch, and it doesn't scale up.
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209
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210 ; (goto-char (point-max))
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211 ; (insert "\n ")
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213 ; (let ((rest '(steve mrb cthomp wing stig linebreak jwz mly vladimir linebreak baw piper bw linebreak wmperry kyle larsi jens))
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214 ; (got-error nil))
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215 ; (while rest
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216 ; (if (eq (car rest) 'linebreak)
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217 ; (insert "\n\n ")
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218 ; (let* ((who (car rest))
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219 ; (b (get-buffer "About XEmacs"))
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220 ; (p (symbol-value-in-buffer who b nil)))
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221 ; (or (glyphp p) (setq p nil))
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222 ; (and p
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223 ; (let ((e (make-extent (point) (point))))
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224 ; (set-extent-begin-glyph e p)
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225 ; (set-extent-property e 'keymap about-xref-map)
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226 ; (set-extent-property e 'xref who)))
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227 ; (insert " ")
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228 ; (sit-for 0)))
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229 ; (setq rest (cdr rest)))
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230 ; (insert "\n")
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231 ; (goto-char (point-min))
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232 ; (or got-error (message nil)))
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233 ; )
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235 (defun about-xemacs-xref ()
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236 (interactive "@")
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237 (let* ((e (or current-mouse-event last-input-event))
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238 (extent (or (and (null e) (extent-at (point)))
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239 (and (mouse-event-p e) (event-glyph-extent e))
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240 (extent-at (if (mouse-event-p e)
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241 (event-point e)
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242 (point))
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243 (if (mouse-event-p e)
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244 (event-buffer e)
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245 (current-buffer))
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246 'xref)))
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247 (xref (extent-property extent 'xref))
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248 prev-page)
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249 ;; prev-page is used for the core people's pages since they can be
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250 ;; reached from two different locations
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251 (if (equal (buffer-name) "About XEmacs")
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252 (setq prev-page 'about)
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253 ;; Kill the sub-buffers when going back to the top, so that we
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254 ;; don't hold pointers to the bitmaps longer than necessary.
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255 (if (not (eq xref 'w3-jamie))
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256 (progn
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257 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
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258 (setq prev-page 'others))))
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259 (cond
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260 ((eq xref 'about)
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261 (about-xemacs))
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262 ((eq xref 'info)
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263 (info))
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264 ((or (eq xref 'w3-xemacs) (eq xref 'w3-jamie))
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265 (funcall browse-url-browser-function
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266 (if (eq xref 'w3-xemacs)
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267 "http://www.xemacs.org/"
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268 "http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/")))
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269 ((eq xref 'kill-buffer)
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270 (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
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271 ((eq xref 'news)
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272 (view-emacs-news)
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273 (view-mode nil 'kill-buffer) ;; assume the new view-less
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274 (save-excursion
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275 (goto-char (point-min))
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276 (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
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277 (insert "\nClick ")
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278 (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
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279 (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n\n")
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280 (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
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281 )))
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282 (t
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283 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create
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284 (cond ((eq xref 'jwz) "About Jamie Zawinski")
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285 ((eq xref 'cthomp) "About Chuck Thompson")
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286 ((eq xref 'wing) "About Ben Wing")
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287 ((eq xref 'mly) "About Richard Mlynarik")
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288 ((eq xref 'vladimir) "About Vladimir Ivanovic")
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289 ((eq xref 'baw) "About Barry Warsaw")
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290 ((eq xref 'wmperry) "About William Perry")
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291 ((eq xref 'bw) "About Bob Weiner")
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292 ((eq xref 'piper) "About Andy Piper")
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293 ((eq xref 'stig) "About Jonathan Stigelman")
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295 ((eq xref 'mrb) "About Martin Buchholz")
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300 ((eq xref 'features) "New XEmacs Features")
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301 ((eq xref 'history) "XEmacs History")
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302 )))
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303 (delete-other-windows)
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304 (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
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305 (widen)
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306 (setq buffer-read-only t)
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307 (view-mode nil 'kill-buffer) ;; assume the new view-less
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308 (let ((buffer-read-only nil)
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309 (case-fold-search nil)
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310 )
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311 (if (and (not (eq xref 'others)) (not (eq xref 'history))
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312 (not (eq xref 'features)))
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313 (about-load-mosaic xref))
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314 (erase-buffer)
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315 (let* ((b (get-buffer "About XEmacs"))
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316 (p (and b (symbol-value-in-buffer xref b nil))))
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317 (or (glyphp p) (setq p nil))
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318 (cond (p
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319 (insert "\n\t")
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320 (set-extent-begin-glyph (make-extent (point) (point)) p)
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321 (insert "\n\t"))
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322 (t
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323 (insert "\n\t"))))
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324 (cond
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325 ((eq xref 'history)
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326 (insert "Click ")
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327 (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
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328 (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n\n\t")
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329
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330 (about-face "XEmacs" 'bold)
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331 (insert "\n\n\n\t")
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332 (about-face "The Lucid, Inc. Point of View" 'italic)
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333 (insert "
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334
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335 At the time of the inception of Lucid Emacs (the former name
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336 of XEmacs), Lucid's latest product was Energize, a C/C++
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337 development environment. Rather than invent (and force our
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338 users to learn) a new user interface, we chose to build part
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339 of our environment on top of the world's best editor, GNU
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340 Emacs. (Though our product is commercial, the work we did on
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341 GNU Emacs is free software, and is useful in its own right.)
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342
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343 We needed a version of Emacs with mouse-sensitive regions,
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344 multiple fonts, the ability to mark sections of a buffer as
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345 read-only, the ability to detect which parts of a buffer has
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346 been modified, and many other features.
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347
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348 For our purposes, the existing version of Epoch was not
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349 sufficient; it did not allow us to put arbitrary pixmaps/icons
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350 in buffers, `undo' did not restore changes to regions, regions
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351 did not overlap and merge their attributes in the way we needed,
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355 (and, in fact, we spent some time doing that in 1990) but, since
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356 the FSF planned to include Epoch-like features in their version
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362 conflicts arose, and we found that, given the amount of work
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370 version of the FSF branch of Emacs 19 was released. The FSF
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371 version is better in some areas, and worse in others, as
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375 merging in bug fixes and new features from the FSF branch as
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382 this direction, because we feel that Lucid Emacs has a cleaner
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383 and more extensible substrate, and that any kind of merger
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385 changes into our version than the other way around.
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387 We have been working closely with the Epoch developers to merge
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388 in the remaining Epoch functionality which Lucid Emacs does not
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389 yet have. Epoch and Lucid Emacs will soon be one and the same
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390 thing. Work is being done on a compatibility package which will
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391 allow Epoch 4 code to run in XEmacs with little or no change.")
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398 supposed to be the successor to v18 with X support. It was
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399 going to be available \"real soon\" for a long time (some
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400 people remember hearing about v19 as early as 1984!), but it
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401 never came out. v19 development was going very, very slowly,
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402 and from the outside it seemed that it was not moving at all.
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403 In the meantime other people gave up waiting for v19 and
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404 decided to build their own X-aware Emacsen. The most important
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405 of these was probably Epoch, which came from University of
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406 Illinois (\"UofI\") and was based on v18.
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408 Around three or four years ago what was then called SunPro (a
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409 division of Sun Microsystems, Inc.) decided that it wanted an
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410 integrated editor. They contracted with UofI to provide a
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411 number of basic enhancements to the functionality in Epoch.
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418 v19 basis was a better one than v18 and thus decided not to use
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419 Epoch but instead work with Richard Stallman, the head of the
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420 Free Software Foundation and principle author of Emacs, on
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421 getting v19 out. At some point Stallman and Lucid parted ways.
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422 Lucid kept working and got a v19 out that they called Lucid
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423 Emacs 19.
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425 After Lucid's v19 came out it became clear to UofI and SunPro
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426 that the right thing to do was to push for an integration of
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427 both Lucid Emacs and Epoch, and to get the deliverables that
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428 SunPro was asking from UofI on top of this integrated
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429 platform. Through the last three or four years, SunPro has
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430 been actively supporting this product and has been investing a
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431 comparable amount of effort into it as Lucid has. Substantial
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432 portions of the current code have originated under the support
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433 of SunPro, either directly in SunPro, or in UofI but paid for
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434 by SunPro. This code was kept away from Lucid for a while,
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435 but later was made available to them. Initially Lucid didn't
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436 know that SunPro was supporting UofI, but later they were open
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437 about it.
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438
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439 Around two years ago the SunPro-related code started showing up
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440 in Lucid Emacs. This started with the infusion of the Epoch
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441 redisplay code.
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442
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443 At this moment there is basically no difference in the source
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444 trees between what is at UofI and at Sun. All the development
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445 sites are in sync.
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446
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447 SunPro originally called the integrated product ERA, for
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448 \"Emacs Rewritten Again\". SunPro and Lucid eventually came
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449 to an agreement to find a name for the product that was not
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450 specific to either company. An additional constraint that
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451 Lucid placed on the name was that it must contain the word
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452 \"Emacs\" in it -- thus \"ERA\" was not acceptable. The
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453 tentatively agreed-upon name was \"XEmacs\", and this has
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454 been the name of the product since version 19.11.)")
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460 to SunSoft. As a consequence, SunPro was then called SunSoft
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461 Developer Products, or DevPro for short. De-planetization is
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462 continuing in 1996, and the name `Sunsoft' is falling into
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468 Around mid-'94, Lucid went out of business. Development on
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469 XEmacs, however, has continued unabated under the auspices of
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470 Sun Microsystems and the University of Illinois, with help
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471 from Amdahl Corporation and INS Engineering Corporation.
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472 Sun plans to continue to support XEmacs into the future.")
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477
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478 Amdahl Corporation's Storage Products Group (SPG) uses XEmacs
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479 as the focal point of a environment for development of the
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480 microcode used in Amdahl's large-scale disk arrays, or DASD's.
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481 SPG has joint ventures with Japanese companies, and decided
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482 in late 1994 to contract out for work on XEmacs in order
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483 to hasten the development of Mule support (i.e. support for
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484 Japanese, Chinese, etc.) in XEmacs and as a gesture of goodwill
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485 towards the XEmacs community for all the work they have done
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486 on making a powerful, modern, freely available text editor.
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487 Through this contract, Amdahl provided a large amount of work
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488 in XEmacs in the form of rewriting the basic text-processing
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489 mechanisms to allow for Mule support and writing a large
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492 Although Amdahl is no longer hiring a full-time contractor,
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493 they are still funding part-time work on XEmacs and providing
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494 resources for further XEmacs development.")
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500 INS Engineering Corporation, based in Tokyo, bought rights
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501 to sell Energize when Lucid went out of business. Unhappy
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502 with the performance of the Japanese support in XEmacs 19.11,
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503 INS also contributed to the XEmacs development from late 1994
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517 Jamie Zawinski was primarily to blame for Lucid Emacs from its
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518 inception in 1991, to 1994 when Lucid Inc. finally died. He is
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519 now to be found at Netscape Communications, hacking on Netscape
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520 Navigator (he did the first Unix version and the mail reader).
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521 Thankfully his extensive sleep deprivation experiments conducted
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522 during 1994 and 1995 are now a thing of the past, but his
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523 predilection for dark, Gothic music remains unabated.
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524
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525 Come visit his glorified .plan file at
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537 Steve took over the maintenance of XEmacs in November of 1996
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538 (it seemed like a good idea at the time ...). In real life he is a
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539 network administrator and Unix systems programmer for Miranova
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540 Systems, Inc.
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542 Steve's main contributions to XEmacs have been reviving the FAQ,
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543 testing and integrating patches, tracking down and fixing bugs, and
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544 answering hundreds of questions on Usenet.")
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554 Martin Buchholz <Martin.Buchholz@sun.com>
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555 Technical lead for XEmacs at DevPro (formerly SunPro), a
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556 division of Sun Microsystems. Martin used to do XEmacs as a
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557 `hobby' while at IBM, and was crazy enough to try to do it
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558 for a living at Sun. Martin is currently working mostly on
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570 gotten stuck with being Jamie's replacement as the primary
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571 maintainer of XEmacs. This has caused his hair to begin
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572 falling out and quadrupled his daily coffee dosage. Though he
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573 works at and for the University of Illinois his funding for
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577 occasionally gives him nightmares. As of October 1995, he no
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578 longer works full-time on XEmacs, though he does continue as
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579 an active maintainer. His main contributions have been the
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580 greatly enhanced redisplay engine, scrollbar support, the
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581 toolbars, configure support and numerous other minor features
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582 and fixes.
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583
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584 Rumors that Chuck is aka Black Francis aka Frank Black are
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585 completely unfounded.")
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595 I'm not a thug -- I just play one on video.
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596 My roommate says I'm a San Francisco \"Mission Critter\".\n\n\t")
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600 In 1992 I left a stuffy East-Coast university, set out into the
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601 real world, and ended up a co-founder of Pearl Software. As
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602 part of this company, I became the principal architect of
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603 Win-Emacs, a port of Lucid Emacs to Microsoft Windows and
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604 Windows NT (for more info, e-mail to ")
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608 Since April 1993, I've worked on XEmacs as a contractor
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609 for various companies, changing hats faster than Ronald Reagan's
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610 hair color (oops, did I just show my age?). My main contributions
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611 to XEmacs include rewriting large parts of the internals and the
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612 gory Xt/Xlib interfacing, adding the Mule support, implementing
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613 the external client widget, improving the documentation (especially
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614 the Emacs Lisp manual), and being a general nuisance ... er,
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615 brainstormer for many of the new features of XEmacs.
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616
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618 Java-based toolkit for developing VRML applications.")
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638 a division of Sun Microsystems. He is now with Microtec
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652 Supercite for mail and news citing. Also various and sundry other
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658 © 1994 Warsaw
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680 hypertext system and the OO-Browser multi-language code
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728
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744
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746 the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of many
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747 improvements and bug fixes. Unlike RMAIL and MH-E, VM
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748 uses the standard UNIX mailbox format for its folders;
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749 thus, you can use VM concurrently with other UNIX mail
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750 readers such as Berkeley Mail and ELM.
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751 See \"http://www.wonderworks.com/kyle/\".")
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760 (insert " <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
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761
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764 enhancements and portability fixes. Lars is a student at the
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766 currently plumbing away at his majors work at the Institute of
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767 Physics, working on an SCI project connected with CASCADE and
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768 CERN and stuff.
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778 (insert " <jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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779
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784 physics) done. After that (and all the remaining exams) I'm
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809 Former technical lead for XEmacs at Sun Microsystems. He is
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810 now with Microtec Research Inc., working on embedded systems
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811 development tools.
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814 Peripatetic uninominal Emacs hacker. Stig sometimes operates
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815 out of a big white van set up for nomadic living and hacking.
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816 Implemented the faster stay-up Lucid menus and hyper-apropos.
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817 Contributor of many dispersed improvements in the core Lisp code,
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818 and back-seat contributor for several of it's major packages.
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820 ") (about-xref "Barry Warsaw" 'baw "Find out more about Barry Warsaw") (insert " <bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us>
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821 Author of cc-mode for C++, C, and Objective-C editing, and
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822 Supercite for mail and news citing. Also various and sundry other
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823 Emacs utilities, fixes, enhancements and kludgery as whimsy,
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824 boredom, and ToT dictate (but not necessarily in that order).
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826 ") (about-xref "Andy Piper" 'piper "Find out more about Andy Piper") (insert " <andyp@parallax.co.uk>
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827 Created the prototype for the toolbars. Has been the first to make
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828 use of many of the new XEmacs graphics features.
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829
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831 Author of the Hyperbole everyday information management
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832 hypertext system and the OO-Browser multi-language code
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833 browser. He also designed the InfoDock integrated tool
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834 framework for software engineers. It runs atop XEmacs and is
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836 development and support packages for corporate users of XEmacs,
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839 CASE tools, communications and enterprise integration.
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842 Author of Emacs-w3, the builtin web browser that comes with XEmacs,
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843 and various additions to the C code (e.g. the database support,
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844 the PNG support, some of the GIF/JPEG support, the strikethru
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845 face attribute support).
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846
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848 Author of VM, a mail-reading package that is included in
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849 the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of many
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|
|
850 improvements and bug fixes. Unlike RMAIL and MH-E, VM
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|
|
851 uses the standard UNIX mailbox format for its folders;
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|
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852 thus, you can use VM concurrently with other UNIX mail
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853 readers such as Berkeley Mail and ELM.
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854 See \"http://www.wonderworks.com/kyle/\".
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855
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856 ") (about-xref "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen" 'larsi "Find out more about Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen") (insert " <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
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|
857 Author of Gnus the Usenet news and Mail reading package in
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|
|
858 the standard XEmacs distribution, and contributor of various
|
|
|
859 enhancements and portability fixes. Lars is a student at the
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860 Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo. He is
|
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861 currently plumbing away at his majors work at the Institute of
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862 Physics, working on an SCI project connected with CASCADE and
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863 CERN and stuff.
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0
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865
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867 I'm currently working at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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868 on getting my diploma thesis on Supersymmetry (uuh, that's
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869 physics) done. After that (and all the remaining exams) I'm
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|
|
870 looking forward to make a living out of my hobbies --
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|
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871 computers (and graphics). But because I have no deadline for
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872 the exams and XEmacs betas are released at a high rate this
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873 may take some time...
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874
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875 Darrell Kindred <Darrell.Kindred@cmu.edu>
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876 Unofficial maintainer of the xemacs-beta list of extant
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877 bugs and contributor of an extraordinary number of
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878 important bug fixes, many of them in areas that neither
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879 Chuck nor Ben was particularly enthusiastic about
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880 investigating.
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881
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882 Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart <pelegri@eng.sun.com>
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883 Author of EOS, a package included in the standard XEmacs
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884 distribution that integrates XEmacs with the SPARCworks
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885 development environment from SunPro. Past lead for XEmacs
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886 at SunPro; advocated the validity of using Epoch, and later
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887 Lemacs, at SunPro through several early prototypes.
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888
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889 Matthieu Devin <devin@rs.com>
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890 Part of the original (pre-19.0) Lucid Emacs development team.
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891 Matthieu wrote the initial Energize interface, designed the
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892 toolkit-independent Lucid Widget library, and fixed enough
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893 redisplay bugs to last a lifetime. The features in Lucid
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894 Emacs were largely inspired by Matthieu's initial prototype
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895 of an Energize interface using Epoch.
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896
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897 Harlan Sexton <hbs@odi.com>
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898 Part of the original (pre-19.0) Lucid Emacs development team.
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899 Harlan designed and implemented many of the low level data
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900 structures which are original to the Lucid version of Emacs,
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901 including extents and hash tables.
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902
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903 Eric Benson <eb@kaleida.com>
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904 Part of the original (pre-19.0) Lucid Emacs development team.
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905 Eric played a big part in the design of many aspects of the
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906 system, including the new command loop and keymaps, fixed
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907 numerous bugs, and has been a reliable beta tester ever
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908 since.
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909
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910 John Rose <john.rose@sun.com>
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911 Author of many extensions to the `extents' code, including
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912 the initial implementation of `duplicable' properties.
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913
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914 Hans Muller <hmuller@eng.sun.com>
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915 Author of the code used to connect XEmacs with ToolTalk,
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916 and of an early client of the external Emacs widget.
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917
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918 David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>
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919 David has contributed greatly to the quest to speed up XEmacs.
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920 He is a student in the Computer Systems Laboratory at UCSD.
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921 When he manages to have free time, he usually spends it on 200
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922 mile bicycle rides, learning german or showing people the best
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923 mail & news environment he's found in 10 years. (That'd be
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924 XEmacs, Gnus and bbdb, of course.) He can be found at
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925 `druidmuck.egbt.org 4201' at various hours of the day.
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926
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927 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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928 Hrvoje is currently a student at the Faculty of Electrical
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929 Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. He works part-
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930 time at SRCE, where he helps run the network machines.
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931 In his free time he is helping develop free software (especially
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932 XEmacs, as well as GNU software) and is writing his own -- he has
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933 written a small network mirroring utility Wget, see
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934 \"ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/\".
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935
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936 In addition to those just mentioned, the following people have
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937 spent a great deal of effort providing feedback, testing beta
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938 versions of XEmacs, providing patches to the source code,
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939 or doing all of the above. We couldn't have done it without
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940 them.
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941
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942 Nagi M. Aboulenein <aboulene@ponder.csci.unt.edu>
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943 Gary Adams <gra@zeppo.East.Sun.COM>
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944 Gennady Agranov <agranov@csa.CS.Technion.Ac.IL>
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945 Mark Allender <allender@vnet.IBM.COM>
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946 Butch Anton <butch@zaphod.uchicago.edu>
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947 Fred Appelman <Fred.Appelman@cv.ruu.nl>
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949 Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
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950 Mike Battaglia <mbattagl@dsccc.com>
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951 Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
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952 Paul Bibilo <peb@delcam.com>
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953 Jan Borchers <job@tk.uni-linz.ac.at>
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954 Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>
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955 David P. Boswell <daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com>
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956 Tim Bradshaw <tfb@edinburgh.ac.uk>
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957 Rick Braumoeller <rickb@mti.sgi.com>
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958 Matthew J. Brown <mjb@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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959 Alastair Burt <burt@dfki.uni-kl.de>
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960 Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
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961 Richard Caley <rjc@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk>
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962 Stephen Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com>
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963 Philippe Charton <charton@lmd.ens.fr>
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964 Peter Cheng <peter.cheng@sun.com>
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965 Jin S. Choi <jin@atype.com>
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968 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr>
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974 Michael Diers <mdiers@logware.de>
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976 Samuel J. Eaton <samuele@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
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977 Carl Edman <cedman@Princeton.EDU>
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979 Jonathan Edwards <edwards@intranet.com>
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981 EKR <ekr@terisa.com>
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982 Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch>
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983 David Fletcher <frodo@tsunami.com>
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984 Paul Flinders <ptf@delcam.co.uk>
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985 Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
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986 Jerry Frain <jerry@sneffels.tivoli.com>
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987 Benjamin Fried <bf@morgan.com>
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988 Barry Friedman <friedman@bnr.ca>
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989 Lew Gaiter III <lew@StarFire.com>
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990 Itay Gat <itay@cs.huji.ac.il>
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991 Tim Geisler <Tim.Geisler@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
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992 Dave Gillespie <daveg@synaptics.com>
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993 Christian F. Goetze <cg@bigbook.com>
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994 Wolfgang Grieskamp <wg@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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995 James Grinter <jrg@demon.net>
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996 Ben Gross <bgross@uiuc.edu>
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997 Dirk Grunwald <grunwald@foobar.cs.Colorado.EDU>
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998 Dipankar Gupta <dg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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999 Markus Gutschke <gutschk@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
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1000 Adam Hammer <hammer@cs.purdue.edu>
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1001 Magnus Hammerin <magnush@epact.se>
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1003 Derek Harding <dharding@lssec.bt.co.uk>
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1006 Jareth \"JHod\" Hein <jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp>
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1007 Benedikt Heinen <beh@icemark.thenet.ch>
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1008 Stephan Herrmann <sh@first.gmd.de>
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1009 Charles Hines <chuck_hines@VNET.IBM.COM>
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1010 David Hughes <djh@harston.cv.com>
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1011 Andrew Innes <andrewi@harlequin.co.uk>
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1012 Markku Jarvinen <Markku.Jarvinen@simpukka.funet.fi>
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1013 Robin Jeffries <robin.jeffries@sun.com>
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1014 Philip Johnson <johnson@uhics.ics.Hawaii.Edu>
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1015 J. Kean Johnston <jkj@paradigm-sa.com>
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1017 Doug Keller <dkeller@vnet.ibm.com>
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1018 Hunter Kelly <retnuh@corona>
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1019 Gregor Kennedy <gregork@dadd.ti.com>
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1020 Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
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1021 Yasuhiko Kiuchi <kiuchi@dsp.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>
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1022 Greg Klanderman <greg@alphatech.com>
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1023 Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
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1026 Jens Lautenbacher <jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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1029 James LewisMoss <moss@cs.sc.edu>
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1030 Mats Lidell <mats.lidell@contactor.se>
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1031 Matt Liggett <mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu>
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1032 Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@nice.ch>
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1033 Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com>
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1034 Damon Lipparelli <lipp@aa.net>
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1035 Hamish Macdonald <hamish@bnr.ca>
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0
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1037 Patrick MacRoberts <macro@hpcobr30.cup.hp.com>
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1038 Tonny Madsen <Tonny.Madsen@netman.dk>
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1039 Ketil Z Malde <ketil@ii.uib.no>
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1040 Steve March <smarch@quaver.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
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16
|
1041 Pekka Marjola <pema@iki.fi>
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24
|
1042 Simon Marshall <simon@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
|
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0
|
1043 Dave Mason <dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
|
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1044 Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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1045 Michael Meissner <meissner@osf.org>
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1046 David M. Meyer <meyer@ns.uoregon.edu>
|
|
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1047 Brad Miller <bmiller@cs.umn.edu>
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16
|
1048 Jeff Miller <jmiller@bay1.bayserve.net>
|
|
0
|
1049 John Morey <jmorey@crl.com>
|
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1050 Rob Mori <rob.mori@sun.com>
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1051 Heiko Muenkel <muenkel@tnt.uni-hannover.de>
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1052 Arup Mukherjee <arup+@cs.cmu.edu>
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1053 Colas Nahaboo <Colas.Nahaboo@sophia.inria.fr>
|
|
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1054 Lynn D. Newton <lynn@ives.phx.mcd.mot.com>
|
|
16
|
1055 Casey Nielson <knielson@joule.elee.calpoly.edu>
|
|
0
|
1056 Georg Nikodym <Georg.Nikodym@canada.sun.com>
|
|
16
|
1057 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
|
|
0
|
1058 Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
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1059 Joseph J. Nuspl Jr. <nuspl@cc.purdue.edu>
|
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1060 Kim Nyberg <kny@tekla.fi>
|
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1061 David Ofelt <ofelt@getalife.Stanford.EDU>
|
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16
|
1062 Tore Olsen <toreo@colargol.idb.hist.no>
|
|
0
|
1063 Greg Onufer <Greg.Onufer@eng.sun.com>
|
|
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1064 Achim Oppelt <aoppelt@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
|
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1065 Sudeep Kumar Palat <palat@idt.unit.no>
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1066 Marc Paquette <Marc.Paquette@Softimage.com>
|
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1067 Jens-U H Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
|
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16
|
1068 Joel Peterson <tarzan@aosi.com>
|
|
0
|
1069 Thomas A. Peterson <tap@src.honeywell.com>
|
|
|
1070 Peter Pezaris <pez@dwwc.com>
|
|
|
1071 Tibor Polgar <tlp00@eng.amdahl.com>
|
|
16
|
1072 Frederic Poncin <fp@info.ucl.ac.be>
|
|
0
|
1073 E. Rehmi Post <rehmi@asylum.sf.ca.us>
|
|
16
|
1074 Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>
|
|
0
|
1075 Paul M Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
|
|
|
1076 Jack Repenning <jackr@sgi.com>
|
|
|
1077 Daniel Rich <drich@cisco.com>
|
|
|
1078 Roland Rieke <rol@darmstadt.gmd.de>
|
|
|
1079 Russell Ritchie <ritchier@msc.ie>
|
|
16
|
1080 Roland <rol@darmstadt.gmd.de>
|
|
0
|
1081 Mike Russell <mjruss@rchland.vnet.ibm.com>
|
|
|
1082 Jan Sandquist <etxquist@iqa.ericsson.se>
|
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|
1083 Marty Sasaki <sasaki@spdcc.com>
|
|
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1084 Mike Scheidler <c23mts@eng.delcoelect.com>
|
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1085 Darrel Schneider <darrel@slc.com>
|
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1086 Hayden Schultz <haydens@ll.mit.edu>
|
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1087 Cotton Seed <cottons@cybercom.net>
|
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1088 Axel Seibert <seiberta@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
|
|
|
1089 Odd-Magne Sekkingstad <oddms@ii.uib.no>
|
|
16
|
1090 Vinnie Shelton <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>
|
|
0
|
1091 John Shen <zfs60@cas.org>
|
|
16
|
1092 Murata Shuuichirou <mrt@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
|
|
0
|
1093 Jeffrey Sparkes <jsparkes@bnr.ca>
|
|
|
1094 Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
|
|
|
1095 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu>
|
|
|
1096 Francois Staes <frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be>
|
|
|
1097 Jason Stewart <jasons@cs.unm.edu>
|
|
|
1098 Rick Tait <rickt@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
|
|
|
1099 James Thompson <thompson@wg2.waii.com>
|
|
|
1100 Morioka Tomohiko <morioka@jaist.ac.jp>
|
|
|
1101 Raymond L. Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>
|
|
|
1102 John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov>
|
|
16
|
1103 Juan E. Villacis <jvillaci@cs.indiana.edu>
|
|
0
|
1104 Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir@intrepid.com>
|
|
|
1105 Peter Ware <ware@cis.ohio-state.edu>
|
|
|
1106 Yoav Weiss <yoav@zeus.datasrv.co.il>
|
|
|
1107 Rod Whitby <rwhitby@asc.corp.mot.com>
|
|
|
1108 Rich Williams <rdw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
1109 David C Worenklein <dcw@gcm.com>
|
|
|
1110 Takeshi Yamada <yamada@sylvie.kecl.ntt.jp>
|
|
|
1111 Jason Yanowitz <yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu>
|
|
|
1112 La Monte Yarroll <piggy@hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au>
|
|
|
1113 Blair Zajac <blair@olympia.gps.caltech.edu>
|
|
|
1114 Daniel Zivkovic <daniel@canada.sun.com>
|
|
|
1115 Karel Zuiderveld <Karel.Zuiderveld@cv.ruu.nl>
|
|
|
1116 and the makers of Jolt Cola (tm)")
|
|
|
1117 (goto-char (point-min))
|
|
|
1118 (while (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*\\([^<>\n]+\\) <[^>\n]+>$"
|
|
|
1119 nil t)
|
|
|
1120 (set-extent-face (make-extent (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
|
|
|
1121 'bold))
|
|
|
1122 (goto-char (point-min))
|
|
|
1123 (while (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*<\\([^>\n]+\\)>$" nil t)
|
|
|
1124 (set-extent-face (make-extent (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
|
|
|
1125 'bold))
|
|
|
1126
|
|
|
1127 (goto-char (point-max))
|
|
|
1128 (insert "\n")
|
|
|
1129 (about-add-mosaic)
|
|
|
1130 (goto-char (point-max))
|
|
|
1131 (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
|
|
|
1132 (about-xref "here" 'about "Return to previous page")
|
|
|
1133 (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
|
|
|
1134 )
|
|
|
1135 ((eq xref 'features)
|
|
|
1136 (insert "Click ")
|
|
|
1137 (about-xref "here" 'about "Return to previous page")
|
|
|
1138 (insert " to go back to the previous page\n\n\t")
|
|
|
1139
|
|
|
1140 (about-face "New Features in XEmacs" 'bold-italic)
|
|
|
1141
|
|
|
1142 (insert "\n
|
|
|
1143 * A real toolbar.
|
|
|
1144 * Proper integration with Xt and Motif (including Motif menubars
|
|
|
1145 and scrollbars). Motif look-alike menubars and scrollbars
|
|
|
1146 are provided for those systems without real Motif support.
|
|
|
1147 * Face support on TTY's, including color.
|
|
|
1148 * Horizontal and vertical scrollbars in all windows.
|
|
|
1149 * Support for variable-width and variable height fonts.
|
|
|
1150 * Support for display on multiple simultaneous X and/or TTY devices.
|
|
|
1151 * Support for arbitrary pixmaps in a buffer.
|
|
|
1152 * Access to the ToolTalk API.
|
|
|
1153 * Support for using XEmacs frames as Xt widgets.
|
|
|
1154 * Support for overlapping regions (or extents) and efficient handling
|
|
|
1155 of a large number of such extents in a single buffer.
|
|
|
1156 * Powerful, flexible control over the display characteristics
|
|
|
1157 of most of the visual aspects of XEmacs through the use
|
|
|
1158 of specifiers, which allow separate values to be specified
|
|
|
1159 for individual buffers, windows, frames, devices, device classes,
|
|
|
1160 and device types.
|
|
|
1161 * A clean interface to the menubar, window-system events, and key
|
|
|
1162 combinations."))
|
|
|
1163 ))
|
|
|
1164 (goto-char (point-min))
|
|
|
1165 ))))
|
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1166
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