Re: Seeking remote Emacs recommendations

[John Carter via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

In your case I'd install a windows VM hosted on Linux. Last time I tested
it worked better that way round. I then have best of both worlds. I use KVM
and virtual manager.

I arrange for a shared drive between the two.

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 1:17 am Jeff Clough, <jeff@jeffclough.net> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm wondering what people's recommendations are for approaches,
> packages, and configurations for running Emacs on a remote GNU/Linux
> system and displaying/interacting with that Emacs via Windows 10. I know
> there are several ways to accomplish this (or used to be), but I don't
> want to bark up an outdated or inefficient tree. Since this has *got* to
> be a common need around here, I figured at least one person on the list
> would have The Answer.
>
> Various and sundry details of my setup/needs are in the PS.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
> PS...
>
> I have several pieces of Windows-only proprietary software which I
> *must* run for my business. Half of these work OK under Wine, most of
> the rest have minor instabilities, but one falls over and dies with
> alarming regularity. So, Windows 10 Professional is and must remain my
> main OS for now.
>
> I also have a machine running Ubuntu 22.04 (desktop) which mostly just
> sits around.
>
> This is all on a small, glorified home network where I can set
> consistent IP addresses and change any and all settings and software
> packages as needed (minus the software dependencies I mentioned above,
> of course).
>
> All this said, my main work environment is Emacs. I really can't live
> without Org, Gnus, and BBDB at this point. I have all of this *mostly*
> working under Windows but I keep running into little...glitches. Most of
> these are heisenbugs, and all of them are the sorts of things I've
> always seen when running Emacs outside of a *nix environment.
>
> I'm thinking at this point that it might be easier to run Emacs on the
> Ubuntu system and display it remotely on Windows. In the Elder Days, I
> would
> have done this via X, and maybe FTP to move files between machines as
> needed. This is probably an insane thing to do in 2023.
>
> So, what do *you* do?
>
>

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