[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.

[anthk]

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]

Lots of things don't work with clisp.

[FergusArgyll]

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]

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]

> 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]

Correct. The thesis is worth 10 weeks of full-time work by someone on their third study year.