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I am looking for "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp", by Bob Chassell.

I can find two Info files on my Spacemacs:

SPC SPC emacs-index-search
SPC SPC elisp-index-search

Does Spacemacs come with any other Info files? How would I find them?

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From any info buffer, type d to return to the main directory. You should see many manuals -- including Emacs Lisp Intro, which is the one you're looking for. Alternatively, g (eintr) will take you to it directly.

M-x info or C-hi will land you on the directory node by default, if you weren't already reading something specific.

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Those are probably inside the emacs info path, check this link out for more details

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoPath

But basically, emacs uses either an environment variable INFOPATH (you can check this one using echo $INFOPATH in the terminal) or, if the first isn't defined, a variable named Info-default-directory-list in emacs. You can check the latter typing it in any buffer and pressing C-x C-e with the cursor after it. The folder will show up in the small message box in the bottom of the emacs window.

Mine is /usr/share/info, but I'm not sure if this changes in other distros.

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    Found the book at /usr/share/info/eintr.info.gz. To open an info file, use the usual info invocation with a prefix argument: SPC u C-h i /usr/share/info/eintr.info.gz
    – wolfv
    Mar 16, 2019 at 5:51
  • Although this answers the original question exactly, I ended up using phil's answer. And I can only accept one answer :-)
    – wolfv
    Mar 16, 2019 at 15:37

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