How to access the help of the Info documentation system

[amcooper]

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What is your question?

I have a brand new Doom Emacs install on Linux. I run emacs to fire it up. I hit SPC h RET to get the Emacs manual. It says If you are reading this in emacs, type 'h' to read a basic introduction to the Info documentation system. But when I type 'h' I see the message "Beginning of line", because it's reading it as a vim 'h' (go left one character).

I searched on variants of "doom emacs" "info mode" keymaps, to no avail.

So, how do I get to the Info documentation system help from inside an Info document like the Emacs manual?

System information

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[hlissner]

Ah, if you have evil enabled, I believe it's bound to M-h (alt-h or option-h, depending on your keyboard). Also accessible with M-x Info-help.

Alternatively, you can temporarily turn off evil in the current buffer by typing C-z (ctrl-z), then all the normal emacs keys will work.

Another detail that might help, at any time you can type C-h k (ctrl-h, then k) followed by any key sequence, and Emacs will tell you what command is bound to that key (as well as what other alternative keys they may be bound to, especially where evil is enabled). For example, this is the documentation for Info-next (brought up with C-h k n):

With evil enabled, it's on gj. With it disabled, it's on n.

And for Info-help (brought up with C-h f Info-help):

Hope that helps!

[amcooper]

Magical! Thank you!