sc: Thanks and History
11 Thanks and History
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The Supercite package was derived from its predecessor Superyank 1.11
which was inspired by various bits of code and ideas from Martin Neitzel
and Ashwin Ram. They were the folks who came up with the idea of
non-nested citations and implemented some rough code to provide this
style. Superyank and Supercite version 2 evolved to the point where
much of the attribution selection mechanism was automatic, and features
have been continuously added through the comments and suggestions of the
Supercite mailing list participants.
With version 3, Supercite underwent an almost complete rewrite,
benefiting in a number of ways, including vast improvements in the speed
of performance, a big reduction in size of the code and in the use of
Emacs resources, and a much cleaner and flexible internal architecture.
Most of this work was internal and not of very great importance to the
casual user. There were some changes at the user-visible level, but for
the most part, the Supercite configuration variables from version 2
should still be relevant to version 3. Hopefully Supercite version 3 is
faster, smaller, and much more flexible than its predecessors.
In the version 2 manual I thanked some specific people for their help
in developing Supercite 2. You folks know who you are and your
continued support is greatly appreciated. I wish to thank everyone on
the Supercite mailing list, especially the brave alpha testers, who
helped considerably in testing out the concepts and implementation of
Supercite version 3. Special thanks go out to the MUA and Emacs authors
Kyle Jones, Stephen Gildea, Richard Stallman, and Jamie Zawinski for
coming to a quick agreement on the new ‘mail-citation-hook’ interface,
and for adding the magic lisp to their code to support this.
All who have helped and contributed have been greatly appreciated.
Supercite was written by Barry Warsaw.
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