>Any help on theory, practice, literature(pref. accessible via internet),
>sources, etc... on writing scripting engines will be appreciated.
The LUA scripting module works very well as an embedded scripting
language engine and Python also works well. You can find examples
of this (ie source) at the following page:
http://www.zeusedit.com/archives
Jussi Jumppanen
Author of: Zeus for Windows, Win32 (Brief, WordStar, Emacs) Text Editor
"The C/C++, Java, HTML, Pascal, Cobol, Fortran programmer's text editor"
http://www.zeusedit.com