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 3 days 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...
FergusArgyll 4 days 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... :)
aaptel 41 minutes ago [-]
This 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.
cenazoic 4 days 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):
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.
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...
You are for emacs, happy to see you here... :)
I started the Hacker's guide on the emacs wiki many years back. I think this doc was much needed.
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