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Emacs manuals are missing on Debian/Ubuntu

I was expecting the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual at (C-h i m elisp). But there was no menu elisp or lisp there. C-h v and C-h f work fine for variables or functions though. C-h i 5 takes me to file permissions. What other binding is standard to find…
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How to search the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual?

Sometimes describe- or apropos- are not enough. How can I search the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual (C-h i m elisp) from within emacs?
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How can I bookmark Info page to continue reading later?

How can I bookmark Info page to continue reading later ?
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How do I search Info for help on a given keyword or function?

Occasionally looking up a function with C-h f will cross reference to an Info node in the manual, but that is pretty rare. I often want a way to jump from the help documentation on a given function to the corresponding documentation referencing it…
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Variable-width font in info- and help-mode with correct text width?

If I use info inside emacs and enable variable-pitch-mode, all text is displayed in proportional fonts, but the text width is all wrong, because info-mode laid out the text assuming fixed-width characters and a window width of something like 70…
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Why is the star before some menus in Info are red?

There is one star (*) before every menu in Emacs info. Some of them are red, I am wondering why they are red and what does the red means? Thanks!
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Display Different Sections of *info* In the Same Session

To read Emacs Lisp Intro, I type C-hi and choose the book.Then I type C-x3 and try to see another section in the right window.But once I choose another section in the right window, the left window changes too! I know that a new session with Emacs is…
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What is "override advice"?

When I execute describe-mode from within a .texi file, I see: Texinfo/P mode defined in `texinfo.el' (`texinfo-mode'): :override advice: ‘TeX-texinfo-mode’ What happens is that AUCTeX takes over the builtin Texinfo mode. Where does that override…
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Open org-mode links to info in different window?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to open links to info pages (Emacs manual) from org-mode without changing the current buffer to that info page? The reason I would like to do this is because I have a list of helpful Emacs info pages in an org…
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How to convert the emacs manual to org format?

I like to read the Emacs manual on a hard copy but I would like to have a copy in org format to kill parts that I have understood and so to only keep what's important to remember (titles, functions and keybindings mostly). I have tried with pandoc…
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Simultaneously viewing two different Info areas

I'd like to have two emacs frames simultaneously open, with the first frame showing the Info(elisp tutorial) and the second frame showing the Info(elisp manual). After setting the first frame and opening the second frame, when I set the second…
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How to remove "see" from info links / cross-references?

I'm generating Django documentation to more easily reference it in Emacs. The obvious approach[^] results in cross-references having "see" prepended to them. E.g., the online documentation for Model instances says: This document describes the…
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Can you directly open the Org Mode manual in the Emacs client?

In your Emacs client you can find the Org Mode manual landing page, as seen online, in a roundabout way: C-h r m Org Organizer RET f (org)Agenda Views RET u Is there a way of opening the Org Mode manual/info with fewer keystrokes?
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How to grep all the Info manuals with a regexp search

People often recommend on emacs.stackexchange.com and stackoverflow.com (in the Emacs tag) that we should learn to "ask Emacs". The built-in Info-mode is not capable of performing a recursive regexp search that can compete with the likes of…
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Info: Display the current node name in the buffer-list or uniquify *info* buffers

Is there a way to get info to display the current node in any of buffer-list/ibuffer/helm-buffers, especially when there are multiple info buffers ? Ideally uniquify should be sufficient to distinguish amongst multiple info buffers, but currently I…
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