Briefly, I started keeping notes on-line shortly after I got a portable computer in January, 1994. After a month-and-a-half of notes, I realized that one does not live by grep alone, so I started adding indexing facilities.
In June of 1995 some other Ficus-project members started keeping and indexing on-line notes using other home-grown systems. After some discussion, we generalized my notes-mode work and they started using it.
Over the next 18 months notes-mode grew. Finally, in April, 1996 I wrote documentation, guaranteeing that innovation on notes-mode will now cease or the documentation will become out of date.
I (John Heidemann, <johnh@isi.edu>) started, documented, and currently maintain notes-mode. I take ultimate responsibility for the code, especially for the ugly parts that I won't let others change.
Ashvin Goel
<ashvin@ficus.cs.ucla.edu>
has been a very enthusiastic notes-mode user and contributor.
He is responsible for at least
the ideas behind notes-summarize-subject
and the ideas and initial implementations of
some of the original generalization and modularity improvements,
notes-follow-next-link
and notes-follow-prev-link
,
notes-goto-index-entry
,
programmed subject completion,
and
context-sensitive mouse-2 handling.
In addition,
he is an invaluable second opinion about
what and how things should be done
(even if I don't always agree with him).
Geoff Kuenning <geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu> has been another enthusiastic notes-mode user and victim. He is responsible for finding several bugs, motivation for mouse-less operation, comments about the documentation, the day-of-week convention, and an initial implementation and the idea of multiple entries with the same subjects in a single notes-file.
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