From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_G=F3mez?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:13:27 +0100 Message-ID: <528E6967.80003@gmail.com> References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <6f87ce15-a952-4009-af80-bb8804cfce58@googlegroups.com> <20131115222457.GA1094@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385064837 3058 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2013 20:13:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:13:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 21:14:02 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 1VjadV-0003b0-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:14:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjadV-00039N-2n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:14:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjadB-00034D-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:13:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjad3-0001VB-53 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x230.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::230]:58875) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjad2-0001V5-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id t61so249487wes.21 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:13:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wuSBzh2r3SooNN3+kuTEbzNC0Aoyg/gmCixQocrbUmI=; b=Ir20SaqyGL5lyyjAlIcPID48tFIQIFIMYBB7d9AgcVZJQltCDGC3qhejwYX7OWWJ79 JbgObbMnYMjIbH9WG7JMjqFykUMIexn0xWb6RPczRx+CqgoGsdeL9wesqyjgyBjt4eOs UTimLRPOkSY+P2DwhYjdiwofP4RqW6h1ai++b+1a5kuc/ETI7nWOye+xQDgNZwNqQNrr vMG9XflR20Acp7qrILAL1bxVp3ZplrxKMMNn34OaKyLbYQgRh2ZxXtvpf45o5xw5Tfqz 4nwCGTho/LTWZsJGe+B9m8NyEm1KiZwXOZoyl4/MYhgnDbXEjHTNQiKd0112/plkMMnu 4JgA== X-Received: by 10.180.75.115 with SMTP id b19mr11411998wiw.19.1385064811640; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:13:31 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.130] (201.210.76.188.dynamic.jazztel.es. [188.76.210.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a19sm8574388wib.1.2013.11.21.12.13.30 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:13:30 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 In-Reply-To: <20131115222457.GA1094@hysteria.proulx.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::230 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:94559 Archived-At: El 15/11/13 23:24, Bob Proulx escribió: > Wow. That was from two years ago. I found the description of my problem while searching for a solution. When I found it by my own experimentation I wanted to share it with the other possible sufferers. I suspect the original poster and I are not the only ones. > 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. This is the only interaction that it is slow over this connection. Once disabled, it runs smoothly. > > 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. I prefer disabling only the mouse-highlight feature. I wouldn't like to loose other graphical features when it is not needed. But I agree with you that a modern Emacs is also very good in the terminal.