Comment 4 for bug 272443

By the way, the proof that there is demand for this functionality is the popularity of Zile (of which I am the upstream maintainer). Zile does have a niche on resource-constrained systems, but I would like to be able to do away with it for most uses; however, for quick startup it still beats Emacs in general (i.e. if one doesn't already have an Emacs server running; and I don't think this is always either desirable or even possible).