Re: Remote TCP server through ssh tunnel

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

On Oct 25, 2010, at 16:22, Lluís wrote:
> In any case, thanks a lot for your answers, at least now I can tell my
> work mate that this is one of the few things that his shiny new emacs
> cannot do :)

Blasphemy! :-)


If you're interested in speeding up X11 sessions, I was pretty happy with dxpc years ago (and implemented an option to have it forcibly set the "backing store" option of all visible windows, to reduce refreshes); NX looks like an interesting option too.

>> Anyway, as people have mentioned, I think you should look into Tramp.
> 
> Well, he told me that tramp was just "too slow" when saving files. I
> don't know if this can be optimized.

It's slower than operating on local files, certainly, but I haven't been annoyed with it enough to look much into speeding it up.  It does appears that Tramp supports using rsync; that may be faster for sending back large files to which you've made small changes, especially combined with the SSH connection multiplexing you've already got.  In my experience, the default seems to be to use scp, so explicitly selecting rsync may be necessary.

Ken