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How do you access the built-in "Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp"?
by gypsyharlot 5y ago
How do you access the built-in "Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp"?
- nanna 5y agoC-h i m 'Emacs Lisp Intro'
- gypsyharlot 5y agoThat doesn't work for me.
- Jtsummers 5y agoDon't use the quotes for the phrase, just type it verbatim. If that still doesn't work then either the info page isn't installed (weird) or something else is up. You can also, from the first info page at C-h i, type "C-s emacs lisp intro" which should bring you to it. And again, if it's not there then something is wonky with your install.
- gypsyharlot 5y agoI have a totally standard Emacs install, but it's not there. C-h i and searching with C-s for "lisp" finds nothing either.
- dfinninger 5y agoI found it on my Mac in the menu bar. Like the one at the top of the screen next to the Apple logo. Clicking with my mouse: Help > More Manuals > Introduction to Emacs Lisp. I assume in Windows/Linux this would actually be attached to the window frame at the top.
- Jtsummers 5y agoSo the only thing I can find is that for emacs before emacs 21 it was not included (I didn't know that, I guess I installed it through my package manager or some other means back then and forgot). After that, it is included by default. But you can check to see if your package manager includes a separate `emacs-lisp-intro` or similar package. Short that, you'll have to download it from the site and install it manually to see it in emacs or just use the HTML version. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html
- ska 5y agoIt should on a standard install. If you have things remapped, try M-x info, then search for "Emacs List Intro" but it should be near the top anyway.
- gypsyharlot 5y agoM-x info, C-s lisp... nothing.
- ska 5y agoI suspect you have an idiosyncratic install.
- donio 5y agoC-h i d m Emacs Lisp Intro RET Need that d to take you back to the top directory if you happen to be browsing some other info manual already.
- gypsyharlot 5y agoC-h i d m Emacs<press space>Lisp<press space>[no match]
- JJMcJ 5y agoTakes me to information on keymaps
- BeetleB 5y agoSomething must have clearly gone wrong with the install (or perhaps there is a minimal install version...?) If this were Gentoo, I would suggest that perhaps the "doc" USE flag was not enabled?
- mindcrime 5y agoLooks like Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives don't install the Emacs manuals by default. I had to do this to get it on my PopOS box: sudo apt-get -y install emacs-common-non-dfsg
- mindcrime 5y agoSame. I have a vanilla Emacs install and the Lisp Intro doesn't seem to be there. You can find it online though: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispIntro https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispIntro Edit: I'm on an Ubuntu derived distro, so this may be the issue: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48211/emacs-manuals-are-missing-on-debian-ubuntu https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48211/emacs-manual... Edit2: Yeah, at least for me that was the problem. This fixed it: sudo apt-get -y install emacs-common-non-dfsg
- marcosdumay 5y agoAre you using Debian, and if so, do you have the non-free documentation installed (emacs-common-non-dfsg)?
- gypsyharlot 5y agoThis is Debian, yes. Thank you, I will try that.
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- BeetleB 5y agoMore in line with the submission's advice: Help menu --> More manuals --> Introduction to Emacs Lisp
- JJMcJ 5y agoUsing the menu bar, remember don't disable that, Help => More Manuals => Introduction to Emacs Lisp
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