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SabreWolfy

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

[Solved] Emacs info pages

Moderators: My mistake -- please move this to the "stable" forum... Thanks.

I asked a question in a recent discussion on the org-mode mailing list about Emacs reporting that info pages do not exist. A reply indicated that this is not unique to me. To quote from that thread:

> Aside: Hitting `M-: (info "(emacs) Customizing Key Bindings")` gives me an
> error about the info file not existing. I installed Emacs 23.2.1 in CrunchBang
> Linux (Debian Stable) and (IIRC) org-mode 7.8.06 via a Debian package. Any ideas?

Is there some trick to getting (all?) the info pages in Emacs? If I press `C-h m` I do get a list of the sections of the info manual, but I've also encountered the message about info pages not existing when looking up non-org-mode functions.

Last edited by SabreWolfy (2012-05-16 20:34:21)

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xaos52

The Good Doctor

From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 4,308

Re: [Solved] Emacs info pages

I use the unstable emacs-snapshot-gtk package from http://emacs.naquadah.org/ under sid.
I have no problems with it,and the org-mode info is available.

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SabreWolfy

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

Re: [Solved] Emacs info pages

Solved:

$ sudo apt-get install emacs23-common-non-dfsg

(Part of the?) Emacs documentation is not considered to be "free" according to the Debian license.

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