Installation instructions for Eieio The following updates to your .emacs file will help you get the most out of this update of eieio. 1) Build eieio On the unix command line, type: $ make On windows NT, you will need to byte compile each file from within emacs, or you can leave everything unbyte compiled. 2) Add eieio's directory to your load path. (add-to-list 'load-path "~/eieio-X.XX") Be sure to replace the directory above with the actual path to where eieio was unpacked. This will make sure the latest version of eieio superceeds any version already installed on your system. 3) Upgrading EIEIO. New versions of EIEIO can be found here: http://cedet.sourceforge.net/eieio.shtml