Re: emacs in a terminal : problems with control

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Willard Rafnsson <willardthor@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I am one of those weirdos that likes running emacs from a terminal. I
>> always do this because I sometimes must (when editing remotely through
>> SSH), so I won't have to switch between a graphical editor and a
>> terminal editor.
>
> Hm?
>
> C-x C-f /username@host:localfile RET
>
> What do you gain by letting the editor run remotely, when all you
> actually want is the file access?

If the file is big, it's better to edit it remotely than to download it,
modify it and upload it.  Of course, if you have a 10,000 Mb/s network
link between the two computers, it may not make a difference.


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