# People and history behind Wily

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## People

Regrettably, this list is very incomplete and out-of-date.

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

## History

### Oberon

### Help

### Acme

### Wily

## Differences between Wily and Acme

Are detailed in another file