Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 09/21/10 20:29, Russ P. wrote:

> This is disappointing. As far as I can tell, Emacs seems to be
> essentially unusable for remote usage. I can't believe I am the only
> one who has noticed this problem. Am I the only one who uses Emacs/
> XEmacs to work remotely over ssh -X?

I used to use emacs over X/ssh on remote links, but finally had to give 
up: with recent versions it has become almost unusable.
Starting it up takes half a minute, it's a bit slow at everything and 
you'll have to remember to avoid using certain features: e.g. hitting 
Ctrl-K (to delete a line) takes about 10 seconds; same goes for anything 
that will (possibly as a side-effect) copy something to the clipboard.
In the end I moved to "emacs -nw" and forgot about X entirely.

Of course, on a LAN, it's a whole different story and I'm using 
emacs/X/ssh everyday.

Just my two cents

 bye
        av.