The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]
cenazoic
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July 01, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
cenazoic
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
iLemming
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.