From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: 10 May 2007 17:09:32 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> <85ejly2rre.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85lkg5y28l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178906837 3899 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2007 18:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:07:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 20:07:15 2007 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 4.50) id 1HmZWM-0007gr-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 20:07:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmZdm-0000Wv-Tv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 14:14:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net MidnVmG9Sb/8et8b3YQ30A8XLLG4xFsXLOOH01zzCB0dlZakcX User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148273 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:12:04 -0400 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:43885 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > Will Parsons wrote: > >> The problem is >> that I use Emacs on my Windows machine to remotely edit files on other >> systems using ange-ftp or (on Emacs 22) tramp. There is a noticeable lag >> after saving a remote file under Emacs 22. It appears that that file is >> transferred to the remote system quickly enough, since I can see it on the >> remote system shortly after saving it in Emacs, but Emacs seems to hang for >> a "long" period (I haven't actually measured it - probably several >> minutes), in which time Emacs doesn't update or receive input. > > I wonder if this is the same problem that I have seen before. I had some > problems like this and I therefore patched Emacs a bit to avoid them. I > am not sure at all, but I use tramp (with ftp) very often without any > problems with the patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32. > > The patched was deemed too bad to go into Emacs however. I tried out your patched version, but it seems to react the same - the file is saved to the remote system very quickly, but Emacs becomes unresponsive for a couple of minutes after. (This is using tramp with ftp.) I'll play around some more with it. If you have any suggestions on any settings to look at that might be relevant, I'd be interested. - Will