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How to quote symbols in a documentation string?

But after googling the documentation, I could not find it mentioned anywhere. … In the Emacs Lisp manual there is a section named "Tips for Documentation Strings"; it says When a documentation string refers to a Lisp symbol, write it as it would be printed (which usually means …
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Info file emacs does not exist

When I type C-h r I get error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Info file emacs does not exist") signal(error ("Info file emacs does not exist")) error("Info file %s does not exist" "em …
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How to read proper formatted documentation for bookmark+ package?

I wondered if there are other ways to view this documentation with "better" formatting? Perhaps from within Emacs itself? … Note: There is another documentation page (with better formatting): https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus but it is a little bit different from the other documentation, so I suspect it is not …
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How to look up documentation for a minor mode?

I just decided that I should try the outline-minor-mode for showing and hiding Emacs lisp defun definitions in an Emacs Lisp file. So I typed M-x outline-minor-mode and then I would like to get an ove …
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