William> Do all platforms have the idea of an 'initialization' William> function for dynamic libraries? I know most elf systems William> do with _init and _fini, and windows has DllMain. It William> would be nice to just hook into that for doing the William> DEFSUBR() and things instead of having the somewhat William> arbitrary emacs_initializate function name. After those init sections are executed, are they released from RAM? I imagine they must be... it just makes sense. William> [...] putting some of the core functionality of XEmacs in William> a libxemacs.so or something like that. I don't know if William> that's worth it or not though. I think it would be. You could then write a small editor/lisp with no display code for running scripts with.