Re: emacsclient over ssh

[Richard Riley]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:13:11PM +0200, Richard Riley wrote:
>> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> What does all that achieve that is different from connecting using
>> emacsclient over standard ssh (with known_host/key allowing connection)
>> and x forwarding?
>
> Following my sketch, you don't forward the X connection, but the emacs
> client <--> server connection. With X forwarding, the Emacs client
> (resp. the Emacs process) runs on the "server".

Which is what you want. Since x forwarding is optimised for transfer I
would have thought?

>
> What prompted me to sketch this was the OP's requirement to connect to a
> running Gnus on the server. There I see the two alternatives mentioned above.
>
> No idea whether this buys you anything. It might be faster over a slow
> link.
>
> Regards
> -- tomás
>