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Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?
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Angel de Vicente |
Subject: |
Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X? |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:54:46 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org> writes:
>> > Why not use a GUI based emacs?
>
>> One reason is because logging in over a high latency connection to a
>> server on the other side of the world and trying to throw the X11
>> display back over the very slow global Internet is a test of patience.
>
> I can attest that for remote editing -- even across town in one of the
> most technologically enabled areas of the US -- X emacs is less
> satisfactory than emacs in a text terminal.
In my case, more than a matter of speed is a matter of convenience
(though speed also counts). At work I fire up a gnu screen session, and
inside it I have 5-6 'terminals', all running emacsclients giving me
different aspects of my work (mail, agenda, documentation, programming,
other, etc.). When I go to another office, home, etc. I just connect
through ssh to my workstation, reattach to gnu screen, and I have
*exactly* the same environment I was using at my office. I can do some
work, and next day at my office I'm exactly where I left it at home. For
me this is invaluable... (I have tried doing the same with xpra and
Emacs in X, but then the speed was the problem...).
Cheers,
--
Ángel de Vicente
http://angel-de-vicente.blogspot.com/
- RE: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?, (continued)
- RE: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?, Jiaxin Cao, 2012/02/03
- Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?, Bob Proulx, 2012/02/03
- Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?, Tassilo Horn, 2012/02/03
- Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?, Bob Proulx, 2012/02/03
- How do I bypass Tramp? [was:Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?], Tami, 2012/02/04
- RE: How do I bypass Tramp? [was:Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?], Drew Adams, 2012/02/05
- Re: How do I bypass Tramp? [was:Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?], Michael Albinus, 2012/02/05
- Re: Re: How do I bypass Tramp? [was:Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?], Tami, 2012/02/07
- Re: Re: How do I bypass Tramp? [was:Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?], PJ Weisberg, 2012/02/08
Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?, Silvio Levy, 2012/02/03
- Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?,
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Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?, Silvio Levy, 2012/02/03