ZSH Contributors
Zsh was originally written by Paul Falstad. Zsh is now maintained by
the zsh-workers mailing list zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu.
The development is coordinated by Zoltán Hidvégi hzoli@cs.elte.hu.
This file credits only the major contributors to the 3.0 release. See the
ChangeLog file for a complete list
of people who have submitted patches to this release. If you feel
that you or someone else have been unfairly omitted from this list
please mail me (hzoli@cs.elte.hu).
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Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> manintained the code till the
release of zsh-2.6-beta16. Converted zsh to use autoconf thus greatly
improving the portability. Rewrote signal handling code. Reorganized
internal hash tables and rewrote the related builtins (enable, disable,
hash, unhash). Made some cleanups in exec.c.
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Zoltán Hidvégi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu> the current maintainer. Rewrore most
of the lexer and substitution and the related completion code. Improved
sh/ksh/POSIX comapibility. Fixed lots of bugs in completion, parameter
and history code. Made zsh fully 8-bit clean. Made some
reorganizations in exec.c. Fixed signal handling bugs. Fixed lots of
bugs in various places.
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Peter W. Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> the maintainer of the zsh FAQ.
Reorganizations in exec.c. Rewrote and reorganized the history code.
Rewrote the zshcompctl manual page. Fixed several bugs related to
programmable completion. Fixed several signal handling bugs. Rewrote
test and read builtins. Lots of other bugfixes.
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Andrew Main (Zefram) <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> reorganized builtin.c.
Rewrote large parts of the zle vi mode. Redirection fixes. Reorganized
parts of the completion code, added some enhancements and fixed lots of
bugs. Made zle fully 8-bit clean. Fixed several zle bugs. Reorganized
zsh option handling. Lots of other bugfixes.
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Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote most of the
programmable completion code in zsh-2.5.0. Several bugfixes in exec.c
and jobs.c. Lots of completion bugfixes and enhancements.
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Geoff Wing <mason@werple.net.au> rewrote most of zle_refresh.c. Some
other bugfixes.
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Clive Messer <clive@epos.demon.co.uk> brought the texinfo documentation
up-to-date.
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Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov> maintains the zsh web page
(http://www.mal.com/zsh/). Several documentation fixes. Maintains the
texinfo documentation together with Clive.
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Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net> improved the the zle search functions
and made them 8-bit clean. Some other little bugfixes.
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Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com> submitted several
bugfixes, reported lots of bugs and gave many very useful suggestions.
Bas de Bakker maintained zsh till the release of zsh-2.5.0. People who
have contributed to zsh-2.5.0 are (in lexical order):