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: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:24:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20131115222457.GA1094@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <6f87ce15-a952-4009-af80-bb8804cfce58@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384554326 7755 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2013 22:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: mgrojo@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 15 23:25:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VhRpK-0000sF-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 23:25:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhRpJ-00015O-9o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:25:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhRp4-000130-Kr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhRoy-0001ZY-Ms for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:52006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhRoy-0001ZS-GI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5664321229; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:24:58 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 314842DC85; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:24:58 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: mgrojo@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6f87ce15-a952-4009-af80-bb8804cfce58@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x 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:94502 Archived-At: mgrojo@gmail.com wrote: > El martes, 21 de septiembre de 2010 03:40:53 UTC+2, des...@verizon.net = escribi=F3: > > "Russ P." writes: Wow. That was from two years ago. > > Emacs seems a little over-active in dired-mode. > ... > I have worked around it by setting mouse-highlight to nil. So it > guess that it is a problem with the mouse highlighting and ssh -X. It may be true that the display code is very inefficient there. But I don't think it is that reasonable to expect an X program to be snappy fast over a high latency WAN connection. There are many issues with throwing a display remotely. Many programs have been written to try to optimize it. But it remains a hard problem. Instead I definitely recommend that you try using emacs in text mode. That is the original operation mode. It is really quite a fine terminal screen editor. The performance of throwing whold characters over the Internet will be much better than throwing pixels over the Internet. Bob