From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Carter via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Seeking remote Emacs recommendations Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 10:24:19 +1200 Message-ID: References: <86leepvdco.fsf@jeffclough.net> Reply-To: John Carter Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30160"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: GNU Emacs Help To: Jeff Clough Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 08 14:21:05 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qTLhw-0007aI-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:21:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qTLhN-0007cY-HZ; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSPhK-0007GQ-W4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 18:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi1-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::22b]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSPhJ-0006IF-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 18:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi1-x22b.google.com with SMTP id 5614622812f47-3a426e70575so1904489b6e.0 for ; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 15:24:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=taitcommunications.com; s=google; t=1691274270; x=1691879070; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=cToL1CnGnOxaXPSGdx29WbIJEYW1f/Xg51eW7/4Yt2s=; b=SH26WuvRZa4nA0vKh8rgig8gJThURhyQ2Kte8WBrIc3vUakgP/ok8mJyIMXjiC+dNE rhCieE9Dg96aYK9JdEIe8CxPido6CUJW3W+fQLJIpcP3CFVieiPO+jUoOtROO6bePL/O LWHmY5U0EK+5mLqz8rUC1fshuyr/zksTmO/++7YyOCPkzAk2Ve/COH2LOkoXOzJCYSep OJOcs83O5iZWMIGRfoXqh/yt4kHbgtC8oXG+9KeVak2YQVC98CnhFuJ2nm89o/uAGMOB yEvsIbq0Fl5ljg46WZAWvUe7mq2m0ZLtfKFpZ1ecNzEEVRmYMOQkQCGRdjoL//WNPYEZ GVwQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1691274270; x=1691879070; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=cToL1CnGnOxaXPSGdx29WbIJEYW1f/Xg51eW7/4Yt2s=; b=ei7XFK0oGdwDE8UUVCl82iL54zCqNOjXpoJ94Km7ZcpKjPa02r1ijn7qmvQGEevSKA nqMAngQZXZguqPdX2dF/gBiCdRjFzrbaZkz0c86uynVN9qvembdupmFQO/pvUh1/rhQY mqHDHDm8rUQtJCmHCgvdm0/BuGuMj7MH1RPhifWJ6sq2dQGKS3qzYWRjVdJ4XyFHOpV6 RXiCDg9sZNJMEazknFNWQU5uzWv+Quzwx07LhHDGbIpdBzXh8HensK1/FEZNcvvZ8Lpo CVjuH1+ciyMVKjpsx0AtUv/NR/dPHXmJ2shS0nbK9wXGMuH1IXI/1sFR0V3ICDhYCLRQ 0eYg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YxBwMG+LuDtwQnNE2pDkm3i8PS1yBbkvofarlIqXuFXLFL3mdp5 HJIDvnFwWUutGWE5saO5bRlJ1/zTe+fxaLVkbpaE5HB+tTmlmoKCD7YALyeHon6ph2fTBFH6x8w HLrrfShvMehcnbrdr/Gp4cJ5ydQebtlmQitY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IGxC6d5a5oR67hKsLgqFiwokE3c1UnW1EJFqhZDq78fn077pP0/t6CAFUHSi70I50qSjnYHGqR5ltapzmBwx24= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:19a7:b0:3a7:550c:635d with SMTP id bj39-20020a05680819a700b003a7550c635dmr5887977oib.56.1691274269956; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86leepvdco.fsf@jeffclough.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::22b; envelope-from=john.carter@taitcommunications.com; helo=mail-oi1-x22b.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:20:28 -0400 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144678 Archived-At: In your case I'd install a windows VM hosted on Linux. Last time I tested it worked better that way round. I then have best of both worlds. I use KVM and virtual manager. I arrange for a shared drive between the two. On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 1:17 am Jeff Clough, wrote: > Hello! > > I'm wondering what people's recommendations are for approaches, > packages, and configurations for running Emacs on a remote GNU/Linux > system and displaying/interacting with that Emacs via Windows 10. I know > there are several ways to accomplish this (or used to be), but I don't > want to bark up an outdated or inefficient tree. Since this has *got* to > be a common need around here, I figured at least one person on the list > would have The Answer. > > Various and sundry details of my setup/needs are in the PS. > > Thanks! > > Jeff > > PS... > > I have several pieces of Windows-only proprietary software which I > *must* run for my business. Half of these work OK under Wine, most of > the rest have minor instabilities, but one falls over and dies with > alarming regularity. So, Windows 10 Professional is and must remain my > main OS for now. > > I also have a machine running Ubuntu 22.04 (desktop) which mostly just > sits around. > > This is all on a small, glorified home network where I can set > consistent IP addresses and change any and all settings and software > packages as needed (minus the software dependencies I mentioned above, > of course). > > All this said, my main work environment is Emacs. I really can't live > without Org, Gnus, and BBDB at this point. I have all of this *mostly* > working under Windows but I keep running into little...glitches. Most of > these are heisenbugs, and all of them are the sorts of things I've > always seen when running Emacs outside of a *nix environment. > > I'm thinking at this point that it might be easier to run Emacs on the > Ubuntu system and display it remotely on Windows. In the Elder Days, I > would > have done this via X, and maybe FTP to move files between machines as > needed. This is probably an insane thing to do in 2023. > > So, what do *you* do? > > -- This communication is confidential. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at www.taitcommunications.com/email_disclaimer