From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giacomo Boffi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:30:50 +0200 Organization: One Step Beyond Message-ID: <86vd5r1fg5.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it> References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <86wrqbw3fn.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it> <9a8712e0-b2c5-4506-8a80-64ac9038b7d1@t3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291873447 23716 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 05:44:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:44:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 06:44:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQZIQ-0002c4-7v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:44:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52863 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQZIP-0004rh-FA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:44:01 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!newsserver.cilea.it!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: donzauker.stru.polimi.it Original-X-Trace: newsserver.cilea.it 1285594216 1412 131.175.189.147 (27 Sep 2010 13:30:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cilea.it Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Sep 2010 13:30:16 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WN6krVHHwe0inHAMgQdBpRW4Yk4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181505 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76754 Archived-At: "Russ P." writes: > On Sep 24, 8:45 am, Giacomo Boffi wrote: >> "Russ P." writes: >> > As I explained a few days ago, I am trying to switch from XEmacs to >> > Emacs so I can use Ensime (an Emacs-based IDE for Scala). I finally >> > got my .emacs file debugged, but now I am finding that Emacs seems to >> > be very slow when used remotely. >> >> > When I work from home, I login from one Linux machine to another using >> > ssh -X >> >> is sshfs not an option for you? > > I looked up sshfs, and it looks interesting. Before I go to the > trouble of installing it, can anyone tell me something about its > performance and how it should be used. here i am > Would I open Emacs locally on my home machine and edit remote files? yes, you "cd mount_point" and the it's normal editing > What are the delays like? if you're on a link barely not fast enough for X, very short the real difference between sshfs and tramp is that sshfs is transparent to all programs, tramp is only for emacs if Ensime uses external utilities, sshfs would seem more appropriate -- la panna resta pił pannosa. -- Ruggine, in IHC