is the calc manual included in emacs?
reddit / emacs

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guachoperez · 2022-07-06 08:21

I want to type in the commands or evaluate some of the code in the
manual as I read it. Online it says to use C-x * i to read the manual,
but it does not work. Is there a way to download the manual into
emacs?

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MunsterPlop · 2022-07-06 08:53

`C-x * i` should work by default.

What OS are you using and how did you install Emacs?

As last resort you could look at this: [https://www.emacswiki.org/emac
s/InfoPath](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoPath).

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7890yuiop · 2022-07-06 10:56

Have you installed Emacs via the package manager of a Debian-based
GNU/Linux distribution?

If so, make sure you install the documentation.  The emacs package
alone is *not* a complete installation of Emacs (IIRC it's missing the
elisp source files and also the documentation).

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48211/emacs-manuals-are-
missing-on-debian-ubuntu

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guachoperez · 2022-07-06 17:44

Im on debian 11 and I used sudo apt install emacs. That could be the
reason why. Why doesnt debian package the documentation all together?

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guachoperez · 2022-07-06 17:46

Im on debian 11 and used apt. Its weird because I can browse the elisp
code for org mode. In other distros which manuals come included by
default?

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SlowValue · 2022-07-06 18:48

calc manual comes with [package `emacs-common-non-
dfsg`](https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/emacs-common-non-dfsg).

Manuals are packaged separately due to different licenses.

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sickofthisshit · 2022-07-06 18:49

Debian has some disagreement with the documentation license the FSF
uses for Emacs, for reasons that 99% of users do not actually care
about, but it means they put the docs in a different distribution
track that users have to explicitly install.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-non-free-
archive-area

https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/emacs24-common-non-dfsg

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7890yuiop · 2022-07-06 22:07

It sounds like you do have Debian's elisp source package installed
then, but documentation is a different package again (per my link).

I *assume* that OS packages either supply no info manuals or all info
manuals.  Supplying *some* of them but not others would make no sense
to me.  I don't really know though; I build Emacs myself.

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guachoperez · 2022-07-07 05:21

I have installed the non dfsg package. I had to run

export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/usr/share/info/emacs

For C-x * i to show the calc manual. Is there a way to see which other
manuals got installed? When I type C-h i I get the same index of
manuals I had before installing non dfsg

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SlowValue · 2022-07-07 09:00

Every info file which was installed through Debian packages, should
have a link in directory `/usr/share/info/` and (*important*) every
info file should have its own entry in a file called
`/usr/share/info/dir`

When you install a Debian package, the `dir` file will be automatic
modified accordingly. There should be no need to set environment
variable `INFOPATH` (after installing a Debian package).

There are other standard locations for info files like
`/usr/local/share/info/` and all have *one* `dir` file. The contents
of those `dir` files are important.