Re: Is there a way to do this?

[Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org>]

I'm a pretty avid emacs user...

U of I is good. They just built the CS department a nice new building
and everything is really new. It is not a comfortable and friendly as
SIU was, but hey, that is to be expected. I am learning a whole hell of
a lot, so that is cool. I got an assistantship with the army too which
is definitely nice... Besides that, school is school.

Ken

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 15:15, Ray Holtz wrote:
> I don't use emacs at all so I can't respond directly about this.  How 
> about using vi in the ssh session?  Its simple textonly.  Thats what I use.
> 
> Ray
> BTW, hows U of I?
> 
> Ken Keefe wrote:
> > So, when I want to edit a text config file on my server I usually open a
> > ssh and say "emacs <file> &"
> > 
> > The problem with that is that because it is not only sending the file
> > data, it is sending the gui data with it, it is very slow over a normal
> > internet connection. I know I could do emacs -nw to speed things up, but
> > I like the window. 
> > 
> > Anyway, my question is, is there a way to open a text file on a remote
> > system using a local application only through a ssh session? In other
> > words, I'd like to edit this file, but I don't want to use the emacs on
> > my server, I want to use the emacs on my local machine so it is very
> > responsive.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Keefe
> > 
> > 
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