I recently switched to Doom Emacs and went to find the "Emacs Lisp Intro Manual", and it's not in there. Is there a way to add it? Or, am I just looking in the wrong place?
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Using my psychic debugging hat I will guess that you are using Ubuntu or another Linux distribution based on Debian. Debian is infamous for declaring that the Emacs manuals are not Free and therefore cannot be installed by default. To install them, enable the non-free
repository and install the emacs-common-non-dfsg
package.
Opinions differ about whether the documentation is Free or not, but I think that Debian’s reasoning is pretty dumb. Or at least overly legalistic.
C-h i m Emacs Lisp Intro
to find it, but it's not there. The document I referenced feels more like a tutorial than a manual.C-h i m Emacs Lisp Intro
should work if the manual is installed on your system, so that suggests that the manual is not installed. How did you install Emacs and what OS/distro are you using?