[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

Joe Landman joe.landman at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 14:42:05 PDT 2018


Wait ... nedit?  I wrote my thesis with that (LaTeX) some (mumble) decades 
ago ...

On June 6, 2018 5:28:30 PM David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu> wrote:

> Off Topic.
>
> I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away.  No problem
> connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are
> such that my usual editor (nedit) spends far too much time redrawing to
> be useful.  Resizing a screen is particularly painful.
>
> Are there any X11 GUI editors that are less sensitive to these issues?
>
> If not I will just use nano or vim.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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