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Re: Emacs and GNUstep
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Charles Philip Chan |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs and GNUstep |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 23:49:54 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Slover <rjslover@me.com> writes:
Hi Robert:
> Your times are likely based on an Emacs running on a local machine,
> correct?
Yes.
> I work across dozens of hosts spread across the country. Using
> X-enabled Emacs remotely is nice and snappy when linked with the older
> X toolkits. Not with GTK.
Yes, modern toolkits such as GTK and QT does not work well for remote X
due to lots of network traffic. You can either use an NX server[1] such
as Free NX[2] or better yet, just use Tramp[3].
Regards,
Charles
Footnotes:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology
[2] http://freenx.berlios.de/
[3] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
--
"People get annoyed when you try to debug them."
-- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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