Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?

[despen]

Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@withouthat.org> writes:

>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ P <russ.paielli@gmail.com> writes:
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>     Russ> On Sep 20, 6:40 pm, des...@verizon.net wrote:
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>     >> Did you file a bug report?
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>     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.)
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>     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.)