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The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]
- cenazoic 3mo agoThis 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 https://temp.sh/CVzcQ/emacs-arch-thesis.pdf
- goodmythical 3mo agoMaximum download limit reached
- LargoLasskhyfv 3mo agoConfirmed. Headline is working for me, though. (Meanwhile?)
- gwern 3mo agohttps://gwern.net/doc/cs/lisp/emacs/2026-karlsson.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/cs/lisp/emacs/2026-karlsson.pdf
- iLemming 3mo agoIt 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.
- FergusArgyll 3mo agoI 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... :)
- aquariusDue 2mo agoReminds me of RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) which I used to use a long time ago to do the same thing. One cool thing RES used to do was (if I remember right) when you clicked on the tag/note placed on the user it would take you to the comment when you first attributed that tag/note. On one hand I kinda miss doing stuff like that and would like a RES for Hacker News but on the other hand I feel like cyber stalking is out of fashion these days.
- anthk 3mo agoThe 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...
- shawn_w 2mo agoLots of things don't work with clisp.
- shakow 2mo ago> the author got tired and decided "this is a good stopping point." Or the deadline was closing in, as this is a university thesis ;)
- bjourne 2mo agoCorrect. The thesis is worth 10 weeks of full-time work by someone on their third study year.
- hgp22 3mo agoLove to see that Emacs can still capture the atention of new CS students.
- anthk 2mo agoEmacs is like a hackers' playground. It's an editor, it has a Lisp, networking support, tools, IRC, Email, Usenet and more by default, a PDF reader, a calculator (with gnuplot support it has graphs), a doc generating platform, an agenda, a silly chatbot...
- tra3 2mo agoOne of the oldest open source projects in the existence? It makes building custom UI workflows so easy, I think it’s both obvious and flies under the radar.
- anthk 2mo agoWith Emacs widgets and some settings at init.el (for speed) you can almost create a grude GUI for something with all the power of Elisp (and disabling nearly all keybdings OFC).
- aaptel 2mo agoThis is great! You should make a web version or add it to the wiki. I started the Hacker's guide on the emacs wiki many years back. I think this doc was much needed.