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- GNU Emacs Lisp Archive README
-
- Last Update: July 24, 1991
-
- General Information
-
- This archive contains various pieces and packages of Emacs Lisp
- code. Emacs Lisp is the language used to extend the GNU Emacs editor
- published by the Free Software Foundation. Although much Emacs Lisp
- code is included in the GNU Emacs distribution, many people have
- written packages to interface with other systems, to better support
- editing the programming language they use, to add new features, or to
- change Emacs' default behavior. Most of the contents of this archive
- have been written by individuals and distributed publicly over the
- Internet through the info-emacs or info-gnu-emacs mailing lists or the
- comp.emacs, gnu.emacs, gnu.emacs.sources newsgroups.
-
- Before the GNU Emacs Lisp Archive existed, there was the Lisp Code
- Directory, or LCD. The LCD is a flat-file database of Emacs Lisp
- code. Unlike the Archive, the Directory *does* include references to
- the Emacs Lisp distributed with GNU Emacs. An elisp support package
- called lispdir has been provided to interface with the LCD. With this
- package installed, it's a simple matter to determine if a package is
- available to meet a particular need.
-
- The Lisp Code Directory datafile is in LCD-datafile.Z. Documentation
- for the Lisp Code Directory is in lispdir.doc.Z.
-
- Archive Format
-
- All of the files in the archive are compressed.
-
- Most files are Emacs Lisp code and their names end in ".el.Z".
-
- For mode information on submitting entries to the archive read the
- file GUIDELINES.Z.
-
- The archives are maintained by Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) and Dave Brennan
- (brennan@hal.com). Send questions, comments, and submissions to them.
-
- NO WARRANTY
-
- BECAUSE THE GNU EMACS LISP ARCHIVE IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE, WE
- PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
- STATE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, OHIO STATE
- UNIVERSITY, DAVID E. SILL, DAVID J. BRENNAN, AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
- PROVIDE GNU EMACS LISP ARCHIVE CODE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
- KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
- CODE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD GNU EMACS LISP ARCHIVE CODE PROVE DEFECTIVE,
- YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
-
- IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL OHIO STATE
- UNIVERSITY, DAVID E. SILL, DAVID J. BRENNAN, AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY
- WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE GNU EMACS LISP ARCHIVE CODE, BE LIABLE
- TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER
- SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR
- INABILITY TO USE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA
- BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A
- FAILURE OF THE CODE TO OPERATE WITH CODE NOT DISTRIBUTED BY THE EMACS
- LISP ARCHIVE) THE CODE, EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.
-