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N. Wirth, J. Gutknecht

Oberon

Rob Pike <rob@research.att.com>

Help and Acme

Gary Capell <gary@cs.su.oz.au>

Wily first draft, and versions upto wily-0.13.41

Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com>

too many patches, bugfixes, ideas to list
fixed listen() race condition
stripnulls bug
expanded address stuff
better env.c
reduce excessive redraws
fix for next_width bug
much of the messaging design
"undo" bugfix
Dot builtin
tag_findtool

Ozan Yigit <oz@cs.yorku.ca>

Wily's current maintainer

Steve Kilbane

integrated sam's regexp

Richard Wolff

sunos4 patches,
msg.c bugfix
use salloc, srealloc in sam regexp stuff

Arnold Robbins

cleanup wilyfifo
ignore SIGPIPE

Assar <assar@pdc.kth.se>

autoconfig stuff

Scott Schwartz

prevent $TMPDIR replacing /tmp in tag
fix to wily/sam.c:/^error_c
path.c - nextstr pathfind searchincludedirs

Mark H. Wilkinson <mhw@minster.york.ac.uk>

fix ESC bug
use $WILYBAK as the backup directory
bug in delpane
snarf/paste use X clipboard
memory overrun in libmsg/util.c:/^stripnulls
pstrapp

Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@convex.hp.com>

fix bug when scrolling one-line window
bug in event.c
Font builtin
better scrolling
Local builtin
nicer scroll_init
FILENAME_MAX -> MAXPATHLEN in libmsg/connect.c

Kyle <kaschei@staff.cs.su.oz.au>

wily.xpm
bug: in win.c

Davor Cubranic <cubranic@hermes.si>

bugs: New window has no cursor, Look in empty window dumps core

Rich Salz,

Beirne Konarski,

Scott Schwartz

Daniel Neri <d92-dne@nada.kth.se>

"Split" bug-report

Stephen Gallimore <stephen@psyc.leeds.ac.uk>

pathfind patch

History

Oberon

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Acme

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