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N. Wirth, J. Gutknecht
Oberon
Rob Pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Acme
Gary Capell <gary@cs.su.oz.au>
Wily first draft, current maintainer
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
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

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