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elisp-guide

A quick guide to Emacs Lisp programming

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What it is

A quick guide to Emacs Lisp programming

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-09-03 18:36:05 UTC to 2014-10-21 16:13:03 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 12014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 222014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 20

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 12014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 82014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 152014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 222014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 292014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 62014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 132014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 202014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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chrisdone·Oct 21, 2014
I think if you're the kind of user who just wants an editor that does things for you, you'd be better off sticking with what you have already chosen that satisfies your list of features. Deciding to use Emacs for its features is a bad reason. If you're interested in Emacs for its extensibility then I would consider it a worthy investment. Go through the tutorial, find out how to query docs, extend keybindings and modes and things like that, and then I would recommend my Elisp programming guide: https://github.com/chrisdone/elisp-guide
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