Checked ack.texi

* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Small changes, including resorting,
and removal of things no longer distributed.
* admin/FOR-RELEASE: Related markup.

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 55 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ack.texi b/doc/emacs/ack.texi
index 7aaf4f5cc4d..7bccc898d06 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ack.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/ack.texi
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Per Abrahamsen wrote the customization facilities, as well as
 from the keyboard; @file{xt-mouse.el}, which allows mouse commands
 through Xterm; @file{gnus-cus.el}, which implements customization
 commands for Gnus; @file{gnus-cite.el}, a citation-parsing facility for
-news articles); @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
+news articles; @file{gnus-score.el}, scoring for Gnus; @file{cpp.el},
 which hides or highlights parts of C programs according to preprocessor
 conditionals; and the widget library files @file{wid-browse.el},
 @file{wid-edit.el}, @file{widget.el}.  He also co-wrote
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
 implemented support for X11.
 
 @item
-Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el}.
+Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
+a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
 
 @item
 Miles Bader wrote @file{image-file.el}, support code for visiting image
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ default value when appropriate; @file{rfn-eshadow.el}, shadowing of
 depth; @file{button.el}, the library that implements clickable buttons;
 @file{face-remap.el}, a package for changing the default face in
 individual buffers; and @file{macroexp.el} for macro-expansion.  He
-also worked on an early version of the lexical-binding code.
+also worked on an early version of the lexical binding code.
 
 @item
 David Bakhash wrote @file{strokes.el}, a mode for controlling Emacs by
@@ -223,6 +224,10 @@ Andrew Cohen wrote @file{spam-wash.el}, to decode and clean email before
 it is analyzed for spam.
 
 @item
+Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
+generating JSON files.
+
+@item
 Georges Brun-Cottan and Stefan Monnier wrote @file{easy-mmode.el}, a
 package for easy definition of major and minor modes.
 
@@ -247,10 +252,6 @@ Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
 source tree to HTML.
 
 @item
-Michael DeCorte wrote @file{emacs.csh}, a C-shell script that starts a
-new Emacs job, or restarts a paused Emacs if one exists.
-
-@item
 Gary Delp wrote @file{mailpost.el}, an interface between RMAIL and the
 @file{/usr/uci/post} mailer.
 
@@ -292,7 +293,7 @@ Viktor Dukhovni wrote support for dumping under SunOS version 4.
 John Eaton and Kurt Hornik wrote Octave mode.
 
 @item
-Rolf Ebert co-wrote Ada mode.
+Rolf Ebert, Markus Heritsch, and Emmanuel Briot wrote Ada mode.
 
 @item
 Paul Eggert integrated the Gnulib portability library, and made many
@@ -427,7 +428,7 @@ characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
 
 @item
 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
-as well as contributing to Org mode (q.v.@:).
+as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.@:).
 
 @item
 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
@@ -471,9 +472,6 @@ Jon K Hellan wrote @file{utf7.el}, support for mail-safe transformation
 format of Unicode.
 
 @item
-Markus Heritsch co-wrote Ada mode.
-
-@item
 Karl Heuer wrote the original blessmail script, implemented the
 @code{intangible} text property, and rearranged the structure of the
 @code{Lisp_Object} type to allow for more data bits.
@@ -503,7 +501,7 @@ browser to display a URL.
 @item
 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen did a major redesign of the Gnus news-reader and
 wrote many of its parts.  Several of these are now general components of
-Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
+Emacs, including: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
 @file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
 @file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
 @file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
@@ -591,7 +589,7 @@ buffers.
 @item
 Michael Kifer wrote @code{ediff}, an interactive interface to the
 @command{diff}, @command{patch}, and @command{merge} programs; and
-Viper, the newest emulation for VI.
+Viper, another emulator of the VI editor.
 
 @item
 Richard King wrote the first version of @file{userlock.el} and
@@ -611,8 +609,7 @@ Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
 
 @item
 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
-strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);
-and a Lisp implementation of the SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
+strings; and support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication).
 
 @item
 Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
@@ -633,7 +630,7 @@ menu support.
 @item
 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
 R.@: Dodd.  He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
-@code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
+@code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
 program.
 
 @item
@@ -664,8 +661,7 @@ a package for pretty-printing Emacs buffers to PostScript printers;
 @file{ebnf2ps.el}, a package that translates EBNF grammar to a syntactic
 chart that can be printed to a PostScript printer; and
 @file{whitespace.el}, a package that detects and cleans up excess
-whitespace in a file.  The previous version of @file{whitespace.el},
-used prior to Emacs 23, was written by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran.
+whitespace in a file (building on an earlier version by Rajesh Vaidheeswarran).
 
 @item
 Frederic Lepied wrote @file{expand.el}, which uses the abbrev
@@ -737,10 +733,25 @@ Development Environment Tools) package.  Portions were also written by
 Jan Moringen, David Ponce, and Joakim Verona.
 
 @item
+Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
+Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
+visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
+package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
+in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; with Sebastian
+Kremer @file{find-dired.el}, for using @code{dired} commands on output
+from the @code{find} program; @file{grep.el} for running the
+@code{grep} command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean
+question-asker; @file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic
+maintenance of autoload files.
+
+@item
 Alan Mackenzie wrote the integrated AWK support in CC Mode, and
 maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
 
 @item
+Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
+
+@item
 Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
 simple substitution ciphers.
 
@@ -784,21 +795,6 @@ Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
 blackbox game.
 
 @item
-Roland McGrath wrote @file{compile.el} (since updated by Daniel
-Pfeiffer), a package for running compilations in a buffer, and then
-visiting the locations reported in error messages; @file{etags.el}, a
-package for jumping to function definitions and searching or replacing
-in all the files mentioned in a @file{TAGS} file; @file{find-dired.el},
-for using @code{dired} commands on output from the @code{find} program,
-with Sebastian Kremer; @file{grep.el} for running the @code{grep}
-command; @file{map-ynp.el}, a general purpose boolean question-asker;
-@file{autoload.el}, providing semi-automatic maintenance of autoload
-files.
-
-@item
-Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
-
-@item
 David Megginson wrote @file{derived.el}, which allows one to define new
 major modes by inheriting key bindings and commands from existing major
 modes.
@@ -839,26 +835,26 @@ diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
 @file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
 client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; and @file{pcase.el},
 implementing ML-style pattern matching.  He integrated the
-lexical-binding code in Emacs 24.
+lexical binding code in Emacs 24.
 
 @item
 Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
 elsewhere.
 
 @item
-Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
-@file{robin.el}, another input method.
-
-@item
 Sen Nagata wrote @file{crm.el}, a package for reading multiple strings
 with completion, and @file{rfc2368.el}, support for @code{mailto:}
 URLs.
 
 @item
 Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions.  He also wrote
-@file{disp-table.el}, a package for dealing with display tables;
-@file{mailheader.el}, a package for parsing email headers; and
-@file{parse-time.el}, a package for parsing time strings.
+@file{disp-table.el}, for dealing with display tables;
+@file{mailheader.el}, for parsing email headers; and
+@file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
+
+@item
+Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
+@file{robin.el}, another input method.
 
 @item
 Thomas Neumann and Eric Raymond wrote @file{make-mode.el},
@@ -869,6 +865,9 @@ Thien-Thi Nguyen and Dan Nicolaescu wrote @file{hideshow.el}, a minor
 mode for selectively displaying blocks of text.
 
 @item
+Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
+
+@item
 Dan Nicolaescu added support for running Emacs as a daemon.  He also
 wrote @file{romanian.el}, support for editing Romanian text;
 @file{iris-ansi.el}, support for running Emacs on SGI's @code{xwsh}
@@ -876,9 +875,6 @@ and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
 the status of version-controlled directories.
 
 @item
-Jurgen Nickelsen wrote @file{ws-mode.el}, providing WordStar emulation.
-
-@item
 Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
 history between Emacs sessions.
 
@@ -891,10 +887,6 @@ Andrew Norman wrote @file{ange-ftp.el}, providing transparent FTP
 support.
 
 @item
-Edward O'Connor wrote @file{json.el}, a file for parsing and
-generating JSON files.
-
-@item
 Kentaro Ohkouchi created the Emacs icons used beginning with Emacs 23.
 
 @item
@@ -1007,7 +999,7 @@ used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
 
 @item
-Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the extensive calendar and diary support,
+Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
@@ -1254,11 +1246,9 @@ numbers in the left margin.
 @item
 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a mode for editing
 Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
-subprocess.
-
-@item
-Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
-bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs package system.
+subprocess.  Tom Tromey also wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing
+clickable links to bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs
+package system.
 
 @item
 Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.