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From: | Manuel Gómez |
Subject: | Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? |
Date: | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:13:27 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 |
El 15/11/13 23:24, Bob Proulx escribió:
Wow. That was from two years ago.
I found the description of my problem while searching for a solution. When I found it by my own experimentation I wanted to share it with the other possible sufferers. I suspect the original poster and I are not the only ones.
It may be true that the display code is very inefficient there. But I don't think it is that reasonable to expect an X program to be snappy fast over a high latency WAN connection. There are many issues with throwing a display remotely. Many programs have been written to try to optimize it. But it remains a hard problem.
This is the only interaction that it is slow over this connection. Once disabled, it runs smoothly.
Instead I definitely recommend that you try using emacs in text mode. That is the original operation mode. It is really quite a fine terminal screen editor. The performance of throwing whold characters over the Internet will be much better than throwing pixels over the Internet.
I prefer disabling only the mouse-highlight feature. I wouldn't like to loose other graphical features when it is not needed. But I agree with you that a modern Emacs is also very good in the terminal.
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