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Find manuals, info or help within emacs

info

The info files are located in 'usr/share'. Check the number of files in terminal:

  ls /usr/share/info/*info*gz | wc -l
231

Within emacs, 'info' can be visited with 'CTRL-h i'. This opens a file with all the manuals.

C-h i

To search for files within the info version of manuals, you can use 'm' (menu) and then 'some words you need to find'.

To search 'awk' manual within info manuals:

m awk

man

Using the 'man' program to find available manuals

M-x man

Then search for the desired manual within the options.

woman

Using the 'woman' program to find available manuals

M-x woman

Using the 'man' program to find available manuals