From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Russ P." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3ebca0e6-c698-44dd-a4fd-6166233f5eba@q26g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291950679 24614 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 03:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:11:19 +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 Dec 10 04:11:15 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQtO5-0000eC-EE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:11:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQtO4-0005Vw-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:11:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q26g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.102.146.44 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1285093770 13279 127.0.0.1 (21 Sep 2010 18:29:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q26g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.102.146.44; posting-account=QXgf4wkAAADkKLOneY6DWJPpPelAjS0c User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101600 Firefox/3.0.15,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181401 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:23:33 -0500 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:77252 Archived-At: On Sep 20, 6:40=A0pm, des...@verizon.net wrote: > "Russ P." writes: > > As I explained a few days ago, I am trying to switch from XEmacs to > > Emacs so I can use Ensime (an Emacs-based IDE for Scala). I finally > > got my .emacs file debugged, but now I am finding that Emacs seems to > > be very slow when used remotely. > > > When I work from home, I login from one Linux machine to another using > > ssh -X over a high-speed Internet connection, using my home machine as > > an X terminal for my work machine. I am using Emacs 23.2.1 on Red Hat. > > I am finding that opening a file or switching buffers by middle- > > clicking in dired or the buffer menu takes approximately 20-30 > > seconds. With XEmacs it takes less than one second. I hope I am doing > > something wrong that can be corrected, because I'll grow old sitting > > around that long every time I open a file or switch buffers. Any > > suggestions? Thanks. > > Did you file a bug report? No. I don't know if this behavior is a bug or just poor performance. (Nor do I know, off hand, how to file a bug report.) This is disappointing. As far as I can tell, Emacs seems to be essentially unusable for remote usage. I can't believe I am the only one who has noticed this problem. Am I the only one who uses Emacs/ XEmacs to work remotely over ssh -X? Russ P