Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?

[Ken Goldman]

On 11/21/2013 3:13 PM, Manuel Gómez wrote:
> > 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.

FWIW, I either:

- Run emacs locally and access remote files using tramp
- Run a vnc client/server and run in that window

vnc is 'snappy', even with a remote connection through a VPN tunnel.