> However, I also want more and more of the things that folks are doing in emacs to be driven by other processes. Preferrably ones I can use outside of emacs to

> However, I also want more and more of the things that folks are doing in emacs to be driven by other processes. Preferrably ones I can use outside of emacs to get answers. … there's life outside of emacs? grin I'd rather do stuff in-process, but with good support for asynchronicity. It's nice that I can M-. to the definition of anything I'm using, nice that I can patch it in-memory and nice that it's all written in a decent language (elisp isn't perfect, but it's pretty good).