How can I navigate doom emacs documentation?

[kendalldita]

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What is your question?

I am a new user. When I invoke SPC h d h, Doom Emacs Documenation is loaded. If I navigate to "Getting started" and press enter or click on the heading, it says "No match - create this as a new heading (y or no)?" How can I rread the documentation?

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[hlissner]

Please include your M-x doom/info (and in all future issues as well, no matter how trivial you believe an issue to be) so I can determine what commit of Doom you're on, what version of Emacs, and whether you're using the old or new dashboard module.

[kendalldita]

generated Mar 22, 2026 05:36:10
system Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64 x
emacs 30.2 v30.2 636f166cf EMACSDIR=~/.config/emacs/
EMACS=/home/redacted/.local/bin/emacs
doom 3.0.0-pre PROFILE=_default@0 grafted, HEAD -> master, origin/master,
origin/HEAD ebf77f7 2026-03-20 02:25:20 -0400 ~/.config/doom/
shell /usr/bin/zsh
features CAIRO FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG LIBSELINUX
LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND
THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XPM LUCID
ZLIB
traits gui server-running envvar-file
modules :config use-package :completion (corfu +orderless) vertico :ui doom
dashboard hl-todo modeline ophints (popup +defaults) (vc-gutter +pretty)
vi-tilde-fringe workspaces :editor (evil +everywhere) file-templates fold
snippets (whitespace +guess +trim) :emacs dired electric tramp undo vc
:checkers syntax :tools (eval +overlay) lookup magit :lang emacs-lisp
markdown org sh :config (default +bindings +smartparens)

Thank you.

[kendalldita]

Experimenting more, if I navigate below the TOC, enter works like it does in org mode in vanila emacs. So, there may not be a problem.

[hlissner]

Does M-x doom/reload-docs fix the issue for you?

[hlissner]

Oh! Wait, hold on, I misunderstood the issue. I thought it was the button on the dashboard you were having issue with, not the links in the ToC.

Yeah, this is a known issue. The docs are currently being rewritten, so this will be resolved soon. In the meantime, you can access the getting-started guide with SPC f e and opening docs/getting_started.org` directly.

[kendalldita]

Ok. Thanks. I think it's not that hard to navigate below the TOC, as opposed to finding the file.

I think the issue can be considered resolved.