From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:19:00 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <76f5ba95-cc68-4326-a962-f515c0fb70cd@y31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <3ebca0e6-c698-44dd-a4fd-6166233f5eba@q26g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <87zkvbylkr.fsf@withouthat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291868371 6541 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:19:31 +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 Dec 09 05:19:28 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 1PQXyX-0007Kw-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:19:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXyW-0005dx-H7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:19:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Injection-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="m5Xp1AeG0rhUixp3PGRKOA"; logging-data="29285"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ydpXKkrugxXmNRsoM9diWJ9jpVXPKY0E=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f1lhGbUmtSppqM3gXcmVMwYKXvI= sha1:qakJtPRCMc5MkNA13H7iD1c8ArU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181403 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:76630 Archived-At: Thorsten Bonow writes: >>>>>> "Russ" == Russ P writes: > > Russ> On Sep 20, 6:40 pm, des...@verizon.net wrote: > > >> Did you file a bug report? > > Russ> No. I don't know if this behavior is a bug or just poor performance. > Russ> (Nor do I know, off hand, how to file a bug report.) > > Russ> This is disappointing. As far as I can tell, Emacs seems to be > Russ> essentially unusable for remote usage. I can't believe I am the only > Russ> one who has noticed this problem. Am I the only one who uses Emacs/ > Russ> XEmacs to work remotely over ssh -X? > > I can't reproduce the problems. Start-up time of GNU Emacs 23.2.1 called with > "-Q" on my up to date remote Debian Unstable machine over ssh -X to my nearly > identical system over here is basically the same as GVim's; file opening and > buffer switching, typing and calling commands is all right. The menus are a > little bit sluggish and navigating in dired via mouse clicks really is > sloooow---close to 20 seconds. Keyboard navigation works fast, though. Try clicking on a file in dired. (You must use the mouse.)