Re: emacsclient over ssh

[Richard Riley]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

Ignore that. I see what you mean now.

I dont fully understand the differences, but I see where you are going!

>
>>
>> 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
>>

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