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2nd chunk of `runtime/doc/credits.txt`
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 Negri             Win32 GUI and generic console enhancements
        Steve Oualline          Author of the first Vim book |frombook|
        Dominique Pelle         Valgrind reports and many fixes
        A.Politz                Many bug reports and some fixes
        George V. Reilly        Win32 port, Win32 GUI start-off
        Stephen Riehm           bug collector
        Stefan Roemer           various patches and help to users
        Ralf Schandl            IBM OS/390 port
        Olaf Seibert            DICE and BeBox version, regexp improvements
        Mortaza Shiran          Farsi patches
        Peter da Silva          termlib
        Paul Slootman           OS/2 port
        Henry Spencer           regular expressions
        Dany St-Amant           Macintosh port
        Tim Thompson            Stevie
        G. R. (Fred) Walter     Stevie
        Sven Verdoolaege        Perl interface
        Robert Webb             Command-line completion, GUI versions, and
                                lots of patches
        Ingo Wilken             Tcl interface
        Mike Williams           PostScript printing
        Juergen Weigert         Lattice version, AUX improvements, Unix and
                                MS-DOS ports, autoconf
        Stefan 'Sec' Zehl       Maintainer of vim.org
        Yasuhiro Matsumoto      many MS-Windows improvements
        Ken Takata              fixes and features
        Kazunobu Kuriyama       GTK 3
        Christian Brabandt      many fixes, features, user support, etc.
        Yegappan Lakshmanan     many quickfix features

I wish to thank all the people that sent me bug reports and suggestions.  The
list is too long to mention them all here.  Vim would not be the same without
the ideas from all these people: They keep Vim alive!
*love* *peace* *friendship* *gross-national-happiness*


Documentation may refer to other versions of Vi:
                                                        *Vi* *vi*
Vi      "the original".  Without further remarks this is the version
        of Vi that appeared in Sun OS 4.x.  ":version" returns
        "Version 3.7, 6/7/85".  Source code only available with a license.
                                                        *Nvi*
Nvi     The "New" Vi.  The version of Vi that comes with BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD.
        Very good compatibility with the original Vi, with a few extensions.
        The version used is 1.79.  ":version" returns "Version 1.79
        (10/23/96)".  Source code is freely available.
                                                        *Elvis*
Elvis   Another Vi clone, made by Steve Kirkendall.  Very compact but isn't
        as flexible as Vim.  Source code is freely available.

Vim     Nvim is based on Vim.  https://www.vim.org/


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Neovim fundraiser backers                                        *backers.txt*

Thank you to everyone who backed the original Neovim Fundraiser.

LIST OF BACKERS

- [Bob Breznak](http://brez.io)
- [Tim Uruski](http://timuruski.net)
- @mikker (http://brnbw.com)
- Aaron J. [@metaxis](http://twitter.com/metaxis) Peterson
- Adam George http://www.adamgeorge.com
- Adam Lindberg (http://alind.io)
- Adam McLain http://twitter.com/adammclain
- Adam Piper http://ahri.net
- Adrian Philipp http://adrian-philipp.com
- Alexander Quine
- Alexandru Dabija
- Alexis Hildebrandt http://surryhill.net
- Andrew M. Farrell http://amfarrell.com
- Anton Beloglazov http://beloglazov.info/
- Arthur Axel fREW Schmidt - https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com
- Ben Thouret http://benjamin.thouret.com
- Benedikt Böhm http://bb.xnull.de
- bfredl, http://bfredl.github.io
- Brandon Smith, http://reardencode.com
- Brandon Wang, http://brandonwang.me
- Brennen Bearnes http://p1k3.com
- Brock Wilcox (awwaiid) http://thelackthereof.org/
- Cameron Eagans http://cweagans.net
- Carl Myers http://cmyers.org/
- Carlos Alves http://www.carlosalves.info
- Chris Chernesky,

Title: Continued Credits, Vi-like Editors, and Neovim Fundraiser Backers
Summary
This section continues the list of individuals who contributed to Vim with patches, features, and ports, expressing gratitude for their help. It then provides information on other Vi-like editors (Vi, Nvi, Elvis) and their origins, clarifying that Nvim is based on Vim. Lastly, it acknowledges and lists the backers of the original Neovim Fundraiser.