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The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]

108 points by cenazoic

by iLemming

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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."
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 cenazoic

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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 hgp22

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