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iLemming 5 days 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.
anthk 5 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...
shawn_w 21 hours ago [-]
Lots of things don't work with clisp.
FergusArgyll 5 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... :)
aquariusDue 1 days ago [-]
Reminds 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.
shakow 1 days 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 1 days ago [-]
Correct. The thesis is worth 10 weeks of full-time work by someone on their third study year.
cenazoic 5 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):
Confirmed. Headline is working for me, though. (Meanwhile?)
hgp22 4 days ago [-]
Love to see that Emacs can still capture the atention of new CS students.
anthk 24 hours ago [-]
Emacs 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 23 hours ago [-]
One 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 23 hours ago [-]
With 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 1 days 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.
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... :)
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.
Or the deadline was closing in, as this is a university thesis ;)
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
It makes building custom UI workflows so easy, I think it’s both obvious and flies under the radar.
I started the Hacker's guide on the emacs wiki many years back. I think this doc was much needed.