Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?

[Bob Proulx]

mgrojo@gmail.com wrote:
> El martes, 21 de septiembre de 2010 03:40:53 UTC+2, des...@verizon.net  
> escribió:
> > "Russ P." writes:

Wow.  That was from two years ago.

> > Emacs seems a little over-active in dired-mode.
> ...
> I have worked around it by setting mouse-highlight to nil. So it
> guess that it is a problem with the mouse highlighting and ssh -X.

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.

Instead I definitely recommend that you try using emacs in text mode.
That is the original operation mode.  It is really quite a fine
terminal screen editor.  The performance of throwing whold characters
over the Internet will be much better than throwing pixels over the
Internet.

Bob