alt.hn

7/1/2026 at 2:47:06 PM

The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2052282/FULLTEXT01.pdf

by cenazoic

7/1/2026 at 8:38:00 PM

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.

by iLemming

7/2/2026 at 6:39:58 AM

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...

by anthk

7/1/2026 at 11:34:47 PM

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... :)

by FergusArgyll

7/1/2026 at 2:47:06 PM

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

by cenazoic

7/1/2026 at 8:12:32 PM

Maximum download limit reached

by goodmythical

7/1/2026 at 11:06:33 PM

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

by LargoLasskhyfv

7/2/2026 at 12:51:49 PM

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

by hgp22