MicroEmacs - Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The following persons contributed to this release of MicroEmacs over the last decade, roughly in the order of participation. This list represents the main developers:

Dave Conroy (Original Author)
Daniel M. Lawrence (Original Maintainer)
Martin House
Jon Green - Current Maintainer
Callen McNally
Steven Phillips - Current Maintainer
Detlef Groth - Current Maintainer

Additional contributions have been made as follows, in chrononlogical order:

Sebastian Bojers


Finnish support.

Jeremy Cowgar


Lua language template.
X-Windows modifications.

Pedro Gomes


Portuguese Dictionary.
Cobol and Intel x86 language templates.
Metapost/Meta Font templates.

Detlef Groth


Setting up and validating the German environment.
Latex features and excellent feedback.
Document support.
Fixed PERL abbreviations.

Mike Hopkirk


Macro execution speed up suggestions.

Thomas Hundt


Fixed $frame-width/depth macro operation on the set.
Fix for XML macros.
Fix for VM mail searching.

Matthew Robinson


Developed the WinConsole version for Windows NT.

Salman


Problem reporting and feed-back.

Peter Smith


Code optimizations and extensions.

Gabriel Tabares-Barreiro


ADA language template.

Thanks to everybody else that has used and abused it locally feeding back comments and preferences, wishes and desires.

And Finally ....

Answers to those burning questions that people ask from time to time ...

Where does the name JASSPA come from ?

The current maintainers initials mixed up, padded out to make words, short listed and searched on the WWW to find a unique name. This process took approximately two months.

How was the JASSPA logo derived ?

The logo was derived from the program initials Me. Given the limited number of pixels available in an icon then the 'e' was superimposed in the center of the 'M'. With some further refinement the legs of the 'M' were later lost leaving a triangular shape - this was then adopted as the iconic outline. The colored lines at the top and bottom portray the visual appearance of a JASSPA's MicroEmacs from afar when viewing an X-term running me within an X-Windows environment. The blue line representing the window header color (that I use), the red line representing the MicroEmacs mode bar; the screen was typically black with white or yellow characters. The icon was incrementally refined over a period of approximately six months.

Ref: MicroEmacs - Acknowledgments File: me.0 Date: 2026/03/05

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