Olivier> Just to put some gasoline on the fire, what about and ILU-like Olivier> approach to extension language independence ? Olivier> ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html Olivier> We could have Common lisp, Java, Scheme and Perl simultaneously ;-) A future Emacs Lisp engine is hopefully going to have some sort of interface via RPC, preferrably CORBA. ILU does this, indeed. However, CORBA and related IDL's are pretty heavyweight currently. The sensible approach is to a have a low-level FFI and build RPC support on top of it. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla