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Emacs manuals are missing on Debian/Ubuntu
This is a great question!
I've found the directions online to install it by hand unclear and, frankly, a bit of a pain (at least on Debian).
On Debian...
Emacs on Debian doesn't come with the Emacs ...
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Can you directly open the Org Mode manual in the Emacs client?
The usual way to get to the org mode manual is:
Start the info system, C-h i
open the menu, m
enter org <RET>
This will get you to the first page of the manual. You can also use the command ...
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How to show an Info mode manual entirely on one page
If you use Info+ then you can easily get a whole manual, or any node together with its subnodes, in a single, fully functional Info buffer.
Command Info-merge-subnodes, bound to + in Info-mode, ...
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Simultaneously viewing two different Info areas
It's not enough to just duplicate the frame (e.g. C-x 5 2). You need to clone the Info buffer.
Open Info to the first place, then use M-n to clone the buffer. Then navigate in the new Info window (...
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Why is the star before some menus in Info are red?
IIRC the red highlight was introduced to help you count entries so you can jump directly to menu entries by number (the red stars correspond to entries 3, 6, and 9 respectively).
I've never made use ...
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What is "override advice"?
Some information about advices
An advice is mainly a method of last resort to customize the behavior of functions defined in other libraries. There are many variants of advice. Examples are:
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Where's the gnus info manual on Ubuntu?
According to the package database, you can find gnus.info.gz in emacs24-common-non-dfsg and /usr/share/info/emacs-25/gnus.info.gz, along with a lot of other info manuals.
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how to replace Info with Emacs
Use emacs -f info-standalone.
E.g.,
$ emacs -f info-standalone gcc
I prefer alias info='emacs -Q -f info-standalone' in my .bash_profile.
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How to convert the emacs manual to org format?
Download the Emacs source from a GNU mirror and unpack it with tar xf.
Run makeinfo --docbook doc/emacs/emacs.texi -o emacs.docbook to create an intermediate DocBook.
Run pandoc --from docbook --to ...
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Org mode vs GNU "Info format"
This is the key point for me:
org-mode has a lot of capability and is really flexible for changing or moving content
Texinfo is great for static manuals, and has nice features for navigation, ...
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How to show an Info mode manual entirely on one page
The info buffers already contain the whole manual. They just use narrowing to show one section at a time.
If you want to see the whole thing, just do C-x n w to widen the buffer.
No need for packages.
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How to remove "see" from info links / cross-references?
I was looking for the variable Info-hide-note-references. Specifically, setting it to 'hide results in the behavior I want. The Sphinx FAQ goes into more detail about this, and suggests the following ...
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Open org-mode links to info in different window?
I happened on this old thread as I was trying to figure out the same headache myself, and I thought it worthwhile to share my solution. You can modify the info link handling in a few ways. One method ...
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How to link to info node from emacs-lisp comment
In comments I just write this:
;; See (info "(elisp) Invisible Text")
And then I just evaluate that with C-xC-e if I want to view that node.
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how to replace Info with Emacs
Here's a way that re-uses your running Emacs instance:
emacsclient --eval '(info "gcc")' --tty --alternate-editor=
(--eval tells the Emacs instance to evaluate a lisp form. --tty ensures ...
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Emacs manuals are missing on Debian/Ubuntu
Ubuntu
1. Download https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/info/elisp.info.gz to your /usr/share/info directory.
2. From a terminal run update-info-dir command.
3. From emacs C-h i m Elisp (capital ...
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How do you view history of nodes visited when reading through documentation?
Library Info+ (info+.el) offers several features that can help with this, especially when used with library Bookmark+.
Info-persist-history-mode – Enabling this minor mode saves the list of your ...
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Confusing defcustom usage in info.el
Responding to your last comment, asking about the let*. Putting this into an answer so the doc-string can be clear.
The let* sexp is simply evaluated when the defcustom is read (e.g. the file is ...
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Why is the star before some menus in Info are red?
You can ask Emacs.
Emacs provides the Info manual as the first manual you see when you use command info (C-h i). It is a short manual that tells you all about using manuals with Info, the ...
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Organizing Info Directory Node
The top-level dir content of Info is not from a static file. See function Info-insert-dir in info.el.
You can do C-x C-q to make the buffer writable, then select a set of lines and do M-x sort-lines, ...
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What is the data-type for :symbol?
From the manual Section 9.2. "Symbol Components":
Most symbols can have any Lisp object as a value, but certain special symbols have values that cannot be changed; these include nil and t, and any ...
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Info manuals not listed in Termux
There are two components to the Info system: the info files themselves and a dir file which acts as the top level index. When Info sees more than one directory in INFOPATH, it merges all the dir files ...
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Display Different Sections of *info* In the Same Session
The trick is to change the buffer name.
C-h i and don't choose anything yet.
C-x 3 to split the frame into 2 windows.
Focus on the window where you want the second info instance to be. Either is ...
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Display Different Sections of *info* In the Same Session
You can use the clone-buffer (M-n) command. It lets you navigate through each buffer independently.
<menu-bar> <Info> <Clone Info buffer> runs the command clone-buffer
(found in Info-...
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How to link to info node from emacs-lisp comment
Need a bit of dirty work: modify the definition of one function in bug-reference.el. (I'm just making a demonstration here. You should modify it according to your needs.) (BTW, this is one of the ...
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Cryptic entry in the info manual
The way control characters work dates back to the old teletypes. The control key on the teletype keyboard simply masked off the top bits of the character to produce the corresponding control character....
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gdb Info manual
Apparently the doc in info format is not directly available. However the texinfo file (from wich the info file is generated) is included in the sources as doc/gdb.texinfo. So if you install gdb ...
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helm-info list of info pages cannot find newly installed packages?
The index of Info files is stored in helm-default-info-index-list, a customizable variable.
Re-evaluating helm-default-info-index-list will make newly installed Info files available.
This does seem ...
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In M-x Info (C-h i), tables are not correctly aligned
In my case the origin of the issue was the variable font-lock-extra-managed-props, which I had set in a fontification hack in latex-mode-hook
(push 'display font-lock-extra-managed-props)
(push '...
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