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Xah's Emacs Tutorial: Acknowledgment

Xah Lee, 2006, 2009-02

Thanks to people on comp.emacs newsgroup over the years (mostly 1999 to 2006), and also regulars on irc://irc.freenode.net/emacs channel in 2006, and many help from newsgroup gnu.emacs.help in 2008, and since.

I particularly like to thank the following people for support:

Kai Großjohann (author of many emacs packages), for many technical answers in comp.emacs from 1999‒2002.
Kenny Tilton (author of highschool algebra software) for psychological support in comp.lang.lisp.
Deepak Goel (deego), for help and support in freenode's irc channel.
Michael Olson (mwolson) (author of Emacs Muse), for help and support in freenode's irc in 2006.
Ryan Yeske (rcy) (auhor of rcirc), for help and support in irc 2006.
Luis Fernandes (elf) (author of Emacs Logo). For help and support in irc 2006.
Eduardo Ochs (edrx) (author of eev mode). For help and support in irc ~2006.
Shawn Betts (sabetts) (author of Ratpoison and Stumpwm). For help and support in irc 2006.
Alfred M. Szmidt (ams), for helping me in getting elisp manual's texinfo source.

The following people have often helped me over gnu.emacs.help during 2008.

Nikolaj Schumacher (author of more than 10 emacs modes), for many technicalities of elisp.
Drew Adams (author of Icicles, Dired+, Bookmark+, et al.)
Alan Mackenzie (maintainer of cc-mode and related code.), for various arguments.
Lennart Borgman (author of EmacsW32), for CUA symbol property.
Ted Zlatanov, for toggle-letter-case.

The following are more people who have helped me in emacs, mostly regulars on freenode's IRC emacs channel during 2006.

David Hansen
Peter Barabas (z0d) http://y99k.com/
Vivek Dasmohapatra (fledermaus) http://rtfm.etla.org/
zpg
Pascal J. Bourguignon (pjb)
John Sullivan (johnsu01) http://www.wjsullivan.net/
Trent Buck (twb)
Taylor R. Campbell (Riastradh) (author of paredit)
Jorgen Schaefer (forcer)
pbalmer
Edward O'Connor (hober) (author of ljupdate)
Alex Schroeder (kensanata) (founder of emacswiki)

… and more, especially many emacs developers in gnu.emacs.help in 2008. Any major specific help are listed at the particular page or source code. And i probably have missed a few. Please gently remind me if you got a chance.