From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giacomo Boffi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:48:50 +0200 Organization: One Step Beyond Message-ID: <86sk0zw3a5.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it> References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <3ebca0e6-c698-44dd-a4fd-6166233f5eba@q26g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291869544 10507 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:39:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:39:04 +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 Dec 09 05:39:00 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 1PQYHR-0006an-Le for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:38:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQYHR-0007nG-0K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:38:57 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsserver.news.garr.it!newsserver.cilea.it!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: donzauker.stru.polimi.it Original-X-Trace: newsserver.cilea.it 1285343301 21624 131.175.189.147 (24 Sep 2010 15:48:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cilea.it Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Sep 2010 15:48:21 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gx5YaZfiQ9MhPhHMqwKy2U7gJyM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181461 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:76663 Archived-At: Andrea Venturoli writes: > I used to use emacs over X/ssh on remote links, but finally had to > give up: with recent versions it has become almost unusable. > Starting it up takes half a minute, it's a bit slow at everything and > you'll have to remember to avoid using certain features: e.g. hitting > Ctrl-K (to delete a line) takes about 10 seconds; same goes for > anything that will (possibly as a side-effect) copy something to the > clipboard. XEmacs had the same problem a few years ago but in the end a solution was found, sorry i don't remember the exact details (available with some searching on xemacs-beta archives)