1. What is Elib?

Elib, the GNU Emacs lisp library, is a collection of elisp functions which you can use as parts of your own elisp programs. Each file contains functions which have something in common, e.g. they handle a certain data type.

Elib is designed to be both as efficient and as easy to use as possible. Each file in Elib uses the elisp function provide to tell emacs when it has been loaded. To use the functions in the file foo, you just have to put a line such as:

(require 'foo)

into your own elisp file. This will cause emacs to load the file foo.elc and evaluate the functions in it. This, of course, requires that your system manager has installed Elib properly on your system.

1.1 Contributors to Elib

The following persons have made contributions to GNU Elib.

• Inge Wallin wrote most of the otherwise unattributed functions in Elib as well as all documentation.

• Sebastian Kremer contributed the string functions.

• Thomas Bellman wrote some of the code for AVL trees.

• Per Cederqvist wrote the cookie package and the doubly linked list. The first design of `cookie.el' was made by Inge Wallin.

1.2 Where can I get Elib?

There will probably be a number of sites archiving Elib. Currently the latest release can always be fetched via anonymos ftp from ftp.lysator.liu.se in `pub/emacs'.

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