From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Karni" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:55:42 +0300 Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Message-ID: <201108251455.p7PEtgGj014634@beta.mvs.co.il> References: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Reply-To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314287651 18090 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2011 15:54:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:54:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 25 17:54:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcFo-000513-FC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:54:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcFo-0007Cx-2U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42349) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcFZ-0006df-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcFV-00025N-8E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.16.147.12] (port=51236 helo=unix.mvs.co.il) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcFU-00020k-Jg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (beta [10.253.0.3]) by unix.mvs.co.il (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id p7PEthLI023136; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:55:43 +0300 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p7PEthB3014638; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:55:43 +0300 Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id p7PEtgGj014634; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:55:42 +0300 In-reply-to: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de) X-Mailer: Emacs 21.3.1 rmail (send-msg 1.109) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 2) X-Received-From: 193.16.147.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82063 Archived-At: On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:55:34 +0100 (BST), rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de wrote: > > I'm a "normal" GUI computer user, [snip] > > Now I have to work on a remote server via SSH, and the connection is not fast enough to tunnel X Windows over it, so I have to switch to console mode with "emacs -nw". > > The console mode has been a shock. [snip] One option not mentioned it the many answers is the use of remote GUI desktop (VNC, NX, XRDP etc). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software All these packages let you create virtual desktop on the remote machine and connect to it (mostly through SSH) from the local machine. They get much quicker rendering than X forwarding. There are other advantages: the client can work on another OS, you can disconnect from the remote desktop and reconnect from another machine (like screen for text terminals). I work with VNC+SSH over the Internet and quiet happy with it. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7976-561 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry