The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]
102 points by cenazoic 23 hours ago | 8 comments

hgp22 40 minutes ago
Love to see that Emacs can still capture the atention of new CS students.
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iLemming 17 hours ago
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.

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anthk 7 hours ago
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...

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FergusArgyll 14 hours ago
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... :)

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cenazoic 23 hours ago
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

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goodmythical 18 hours ago
Maximum download limit reached
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LargoLasskhyfv 15 hours ago
Confirmed. Headline is working for me, though. (Meanwhile?)
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