#Emacs manuals manuals#
#Emacs manuals manual#

Install-info -info-file='$file' -dir-file=/data/data/com. In fact, since the info files were already installed in that directory, the OP found it expedient to just run a small script to create the dir file from the existing info files instead of rerunning the make: for file in /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/info/*

I find it surprising when people remark not to bother with it it should be the first port of call for most people.

#Emacs manuals manuals#

That in turn uses the install-info program appropriately to add the various info files to the dir file in the info directory corresponding to the prefix ( $prefix/share/info). ItвЂ™s got the self-documenting parts, thanks to elisp and all that machinery, and a set of hand-curated manuals that ship with it. If there are two files, they are both displayed otherwise the last file is displayed along with a buffer list that shows what other buffers there are. The last file name on your command line becomes the current buffer the other files are also visited in other buffers. So all you have to do is override that destination: sudo make install-info prefix=/data/data/com.termux/files/usr Emacs visits the specified files while it starts up. The variable undo-strong-limit sets a stricter limit: the command which pushes the size past this amount is itself forgotten. GNU Makefiles make use of the prefix variable ( /usr/local by default) to construct all the directories for the software installation. The variable undo-limit sets a soft limit: Emacs keeps undo data for enough commands to reach this size, and perhaps exceed it, but does not keep data for any earlier commands beyond that.

#Emacs manuals manual#

you can order printed copies of the gnu emacs manual from the free software foundation. Access it through Info, either with the info command in a shell window under GNU and Unix operating systems, or in Emacs, by typing вЂM-x info RETвЂ™ (thatвЂ™s Meta- or ESC x, the word info, followed by the return key), or by typing вЂC-h iвЂ™ (thatвЂ™s Control-h followed by i). In any case, since these are the standard emacs info files, you can reinstall them using the appropriate make invocation and get everything. postscript files of the emacs manuals are located in /usr/lib/emacs/doc. Emacs Manual Emacs comes with a comprehensive manual. Completion entails listing, sorting, filtering, previewing, and applying actions on selected items. Emacs uses completion mechanism in a variety of contexts: code, menus, commands, variables, functions, etc.

You can create the dir file by hand if you want: there is information about that in the Texinfo manual, but in most cases, it is built when the info file for the package is installed. Ivy is an interactive interface for completion in Emacs. The corollary however is that the dir file must exist. When Info sees more than one directory in INFOPATH, it merges all the dir files that it finds into one index. There are two components to the Info system: the info files themselves and a dir file which acts as the top level index.