Mercurial > hg > xemacs-beta
changeset 481:1662439f54c2
[xemacs-hg @ 2001-04-24 14:06:37 by hrvojen]
Update Hrvoje Niksic's bio.
Published in <sxsbspm5r95.fsf@florida.arsdigita.de>.
author | hrvojen |
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date | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:06:40 +0000 |
parents | e07227fed94e |
children | f4f05bb53234 |
files | lisp/ChangeLog lisp/about.el |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/ChangeLog Mon Apr 23 16:18:04 2001 +0000 +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog Tue Apr 24 14:06:40 2001 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2001-04-24 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com> + + * about.el (about-personal-info): Update my bio. + (about-hacker-contribution): Ditto. + 2001-04-23 Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> * cus-edit.el (custom-variable-pre-save): New.
--- a/lisp/about.el Mon Apr 23 16:18:04 2001 +0000 +++ b/lisp/about.el Tue Apr 24 14:06:40 2001 +0000 @@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ (stigb . "http://www.tihlde.hist.no/~stigb/") (vin . "http://www.upa.org/") (vladimir . "http://www.leonora.org/~vladimir/") - (wget . "http://www.wget.org/") - (wget-ftp . "ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/") + (wget . "http://sunsite.dk/wget/") (xemacs . "http://www.xemacs.org/") (youngs . "http://eicq.sourceforge.net/")) "Some of the more important URLs.") @@ -957,16 +956,39 @@ Sorry, no personal information available about me yet.\n")) (hniksic (widget-insert "\ -Hrvoje is a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and -Computing in Zagreb, Croatia, working part-time at system administration -at SRCE. His hobby is hacking free software, particularly XEmacs and -GNU Wget, the latter being his very own creation. +Hrvoje thinks he works in the server-side web business. In reality, +he cranks out huge quantities of HTML, Tcl, and Java for the German +branch of ") + (about-url-link "http://www.arsdigita.com/" + "ArsDigita, Inc." "www.arsdigita.com") + ;; Avoid literal I18N characters in strings. *Displaying* a + ;; Latin 1 character should always be safe, though, with or + ;; without Mule. + (let ((muenchen (format "M%cnchen" (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 252)))) + (widget-insert (format "\ + He joined the ranks of Gastarbeiters only +recently; he is trying to learn German and get attuned to %s +and Bav^H^H^HGermany.\n" muenchen))) + + (widget-insert "\ -For info on Wget, see ") - (about-url-link 'wget nil "Visit the Wget web page") - (widget-insert " or\n") - (about-url-link 'wget-ftp nil "Visit the Wget ftp page") - (widget-insert ".\n")) +Before ArsDigita, he worked as a programmer at ") + (about-url-link "http://www.iskon.hr/" "Iskon," "www.iskon.hr") + (widget-insert " a fast-growing +Croatian ISP. Even before that, he worked part-time for academic +institutions like ") + (about-url-link "http://www.srce.hr/" "SRCE" "www.srce.hr") + (widget-insert " and ") + (about-url-link "http://www.carnet.hr/" "CARNet," "www.carnet.hr") + (widget-insert " and tried to attend university. + +He takes perverse pleasure in building and maintaining free software +in his free time. Apart from XEmacs, his major contribution is ") + (about-url-link 'wget "Wget," "Wget home page") + (widget-insert " +his very own creation, now jointly maintained by a happy crew. + +He dreams of having a home page.\n")) (hobley (widget-insert "\ I used to do real work, but now I am a Project Manager for one of the @@ -1498,9 +1520,27 @@ (hniksic (widget-insert "\ -Hrvoje's contribution to XEmacs consists of a multitude of hours spent -adding new features and bugs, and fixing old ones. He dreams of -writing a home page.\n")) +Hrvoje's contribution to XEmacs consists of many hours spent working +on code and taking part in public discussions. + +He wrote `savehist' and `htmlize' packages, the latter having a pretty +large gathering of users. He worked to improve many parts of XEmacs +Lisp code, including isearch (FSF synch and new features), cl, edmacro +\(FSF synch and an almost complete rewrite), profile, gnuserv, +hyper-apropos, etags, about, and custom. + +He has worked on improving and optimizing the C core. He ported many +FSF core features such as indirect buffers, tty-erase-char, +save-current-buffer and friends, debug-ignored-errors, etc. He also +wrote line numbering optimizations for large buffers, initial support +for TTY frames, abbrev improvements, Lisp printer and reader +improvements, support for extent modification functions, and lots of +minor bugfixes, optimizations, and Muleifications. + +He contributed to Lispref and Internals documentation, including a +section on writing Mule-compliant C code. Maintains NEWS. He +participated on xemacs-beta since 1996 and on the Patch Review Board +since its inception in 1998.\n")) (hobley (widget-insert "\