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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."<p>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.
The Emacs' bundled documentation on Elisp (both the intro and the rest) are pretty much complete enough.<p>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...
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)<p>You are for emacs, happy to see you here... :)
This is a bachelor's thesis from University of Uppsala submitted in March 2026.<p>I was having trouble accessing the Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet site (linked in headline) directly, so uploaded it here (link expires in 3 days):<p><a href="https://temp.sh/CVzcQ/emacs-arch-thesis.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://temp.sh/CVzcQ/emacs-arch-thesis.pdf</a>
<a href="https://gwern.net/doc/cs/lisp/emacs/2026-karlsson.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://gwern.net/doc/cs/lisp/emacs/2026-karlsson.pdf</a>
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Love to see that Emacs can still capture the atention of new CS students.