From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient over ssh Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:47:05 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87r5x9g780.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <87k530538o.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245937257 20537 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 13:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:40:57 +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 Jun 25 15:40:50 2009 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 4.50) id 1MJpC4-000499-5P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJpC1-0000dH-Cp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:40:45 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!eternal-september.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/UZ+FYFZ2Jpyxe3FU1yXJ0VUDo2zE0JykAq6ahwgw1HZWJBEeNuVxH1OzL5ltfwjl1WfyxeIiPKLVaV+Y0Y1rJ2agtXhTk/PL2Nt+h4cwGGWiHHPjs7+0wwzVd/ykxj3E= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@motzarella.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:47:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/jilfaY0ZhcMColgBp+fAXIlF1qPz2H0i0Rtn27+Gthg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:KLB2ZxFCds2X/YY8wnHZC6T1Bew= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170286 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:65503 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:13:11PM +0200, Richard Riley wrote: >> tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > > [...] > >> What does all that achieve that is different from connecting using >> emacsclient over standard ssh (with known_host/key allowing connection) >> and x forwarding? > > Following my sketch, you don't forward the X connection, but the emacs > client <--> server connection. With X forwarding, the Emacs client > (resp. the Emacs process) runs on the "server". Which is what you want. Since x forwarding is optimised for transfer I would have thought? > > What prompted me to sketch this was the OP's requirement to connect to a > running Gnus on the server. There I see the two alternatives mentioned above. > > No idea whether this buys you anything. It might be faster over a slow > link. > > Regards > -- tomás >