(elib.info)What is Elib?

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1 What is Elib?
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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.

Contributors

Contributors to GNU Elib.

Archives

Where can I get a copy of Elib?