Ask HN: I have info and loads of manuals in Emacs, how do I use them?
How can I use emacs info and friends more effectively? Specifically in looking up docs on already installed packages? Asking here because this might end up being useful to others.
How can I use emacs info and friends more effectively? Specifically in looking up docs on already installed packages? Asking here because this might end up being useful to others.
Then you can use "m" or "C-s" to find the manual you want.
I don't think there's any stock full-text search of all installed manuals at once, but, once you're in a manual, then the various means of navigation are usually very efficient, and (sadly) generally better than most manuals in HTML.
"Grovel indices of all known Info files on your system for STRING. Build a menu of the possible matches."
Also, C-h C-h will show you the help of help commands.
M-x apropos-value is crucial when you don't know what variable it is, but you know it's somewhere.