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Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?


From: despen
Subject: Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:29:42 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> writes:

> Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> writes:
>
>> I used to use emacs over X/ssh on remote links, but finally had to
>> give up: with recent versions it has become almost unusable.
>> Starting it up takes half a minute, it's a bit slow at everything and
>> you'll have to remember to avoid using certain features: e.g. hitting
>> Ctrl-K (to delete a line) takes about 10 seconds; same goes for
>> anything that will (possibly as a side-effect) copy something to the
>> clipboard.
>
> XEmacs had the same problem a few years ago but in the end a solution
> was found, sorry  i don't remember the exact details (available with
> some searching on xemacs-beta archives)

The clipboard issue was XEmacs using the X11 clipboard for kills.
A switch could turn it off.

I haven't noticed a similar issue with Emacs.
Some where in my .emacs I may still be turning it off.


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