On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:40:06PM +0100, Phil Betts wrote: [snip a pretty good summary of why I prefer a local Emacs]
> FWIW, I work both ways. I'm a developer, and for most of my work, I > use emacs running remotely on the development box using X. This gives > me access to compile & friends. For everything else, particularly > connecting to customer sites, most of which have neither emacs nor X > and where all our staff use the same login account, I use NTemacs. You are not alone... ;-) > If I could transparently run remote commands, I'd never use > a remote emacs. Well, TRAMP claims to do this. http://tinyurl.com/damqf Cheers, -bernie.
