Re: Apologia for bzr

[David Kastrup]

James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "ESR" == Eric S Raymond <address@hidden> writes:
>
> ESR> Yes.  It's actually pretty rare for even old-school types to run
> ESR> emacs in a hard or soft terminal these days; normally it is
> ESR> launched from a window system.
>
> Except when using emacs on a remote server.
>
> Emacs in a terminal emulator is often superior to gui-emacs with the X
> protocol tunneled over ssh.

Why would you do that?

It's so much easier and faster to just do

C-x C-f /ssh:address@hidden:myfile.c RET

and you don't even need an Emacs on the other end of the connection.
Similarly for editing things like

C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/fstab RET

-- 
David Kastrup