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The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf](diva-portal.org)
111 points by cenazoic 2 days ago | 8 comments
iLemming 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It looks great. I have not read it to completion just yet, but merely scrolling through the document leaves me with a feeling that the author got tired and decided "this is a good stopping point."

To be fair, writing a book about Emacs is a Sisyphean effort by definition - this sea is a bottomless abyss of hackery abundance, and any meaningful effort to explain it is worth a celebration.

anthk a day ago | parent | next [-]

The Emacs' bundled documentation on Elisp (both the intro and the rest) are pretty much complete enough.

On Elisp and multithreading/processing, well, just look at bordeaux-threads in Common Lisp where the support is not universal for Clisp. SBCL and ECL work, but...

FergusArgyll 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have a silly little vibe coded extension where I can star certain HN commenters so I know who to look for in which threads (just puts a small symbol next to the username)

You are for emacs, happy to see you here... :)

cenazoic 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a bachelor's thesis from University of Uppsala submitted in March 2026.

I was having trouble accessing the Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet site (linked in headline) directly, so uploaded it here (link expires in 3 days):

https://temp.sh/CVzcQ/emacs-arch-thesis.pdf

gwern 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/lisp/emacs/2026-karlsson.pdf

goodmythical 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Maximum download limit reached

LargoLasskhyfv 2 days ago | parent [-]

Confirmed. Headline is working for me, though. (Meanwhile?)

hgp22 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Love to see that Emacs can still capture the atention of new CS students.