Re: Emacs in the Cloud

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 25 2011, joakim@verona.se wrote:
>
>> I use a graphical gtk based emacs everyday, and I also use terminal
>> based Emacs sessions every day. Hardened remote servers will continue to
>> actively not have any X installations for years to come. Terminal Emacs
>> sessions clearly makes life more liveable in those cases.
>
> Does not sound like a good argument. Tunneled display over ssh already
> exists for X11 for years. Tunneling HTML data does not sound like
> something very hard to accomplish neither. :)

You missed the part about X clients not being installed in the first
place. Many installations do not. For example, none of our servers have
them installed (NASA Kepler Science Operations Center).

Also, in other cases, although I could run an X Emacs client over a
tunneled connection, it's too slow to be useful and that's why I use
terminal Emacs.

Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org> writes:

> What about using tramp in such cases?

I've used tramp for opening files, but it seems that it would be painful
if impossible for replacing an interactive shell session. Can you use it
this way?

I could not live without terminal-based Emacs (and emacsclient -nw).
Well, I could live, but I couldn't edit :-).

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