From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X? Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:58:21 -0700 Message-ID: <20120203195821.GB1171@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <4f2b91e0.ea0b440a.5dde.ffffa078@mx.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328299116 25879 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2012 19:58:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:58:36 +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 Feb 03 20:58:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtPHB-0004i4-NE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:58:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtPHA-0000MD-UE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtPH6-0000Jh-9v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtPH5-0000jj-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:54746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtPH5-0000jf-6y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB914211D8 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:58:21 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B1E432DC9D; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:58:21 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: Bob Proulx , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4f2b91e0.ea0b440a.5dde.ffffa078@mx.google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 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:83634 Archived-At: Jiaxin Cao wrote: > Angel de Vicente wrote: > > I run Emacs in text mode, inside GNUScreen, running in a > > Why not use a GUI based emacs? One reason is because logging in over a high latency connection to a server on the other side of the world and trying to throw the X11 display back over the very slow global Internet is a test of patience. Not to mention other issues such as those of security. Using a text terminal is much more efficient of bandwidth making the interactive response fast and just the right solution. Bob