From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:08:09 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87mwmdfbt9.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381677015 22156 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2013 15:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:10:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 13 17:10:20 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 1VVNJC-0002nU-Es for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVNJB-0000ak-Vo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:10:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MRbMUMPxivGauLK4z0KWpsHl5YY= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201721 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:93989 Archived-At: Eric Brown writes: > Usually I run Emacs in X over ssh, but when the > latency is high, I fire it up in text mode. The > cursor may jump a little bit, but it is usable. > > I run on Mac, Windows, Linuxes, and OpenBSD--pretty > much the same configuration files. > > For me, Emacs is simply the best in perfect situations > of fast network and fast computer. It leaves the > others in the dirt when it comes to imperfect > situations -- slow network, slow computer, and > heterogeneous environments. That's interesting. Why do you use all those systems? I was "like that" when I always got computers from everyone I knew, when I "found" them, etc. Then I was under the incorrect impression that installing a Linux distro was difficult or at least tedious. Now I do it first thing, if you have a comic book or newspaper next to you it is fine. Just like you, I try to keep portable config files (not just for Emacs), which works "in theory" :) No, that works to 85-95%, really. I also do lots of stuff with ssh (but without X). First, I did everything local and then scp the files, now I run Emacs on the remote Solaris/SunOS with 99% identical experience. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573