From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Venturoli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:56:59 GMT Organization: [Infostrada] Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291947954 15453 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:25:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:25:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 03:25:49 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 1PQsg6-0002Ma-Se for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:25:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQsg6-0007TA-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:25:46 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!bnewspeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!nntp.infostrada.it!twister2.libero.it.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; it-IT; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100917 Thunderbird/3.1.4 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <3ebca0e6-c698-44dd-a4fd-6166233f5eba@q26g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.51.54.64 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@libero.it Original-X-Trace: twister2.libero.it 1285192619 151.51.54.64 (Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:56:59 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:56:59 MET DST Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181435 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:24 -0500 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:77199 Archived-At: On 09/21/10 20:29, Russ P. wrote: > This is disappointing. As far as I can tell, Emacs seems to be > essentially unusable for remote usage. I can't believe I am the only > one who has noticed this problem. Am I the only one who uses Emacs/ > XEmacs to work remotely over ssh -X? 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. In the end I moved to "emacs -nw" and forgot about X entirely. Of course, on a LAN, it's a whole different story and I'm using emacs/X/ssh everyday. Just my two cents bye av.