From: David Kastrup <dak@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T07:10:18+09:00
Subject: Re: SciTE Alternatives

Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:51:31AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
>> > If Emacs is what works for you, go for it.  Some people like the feature
>> > set of Emacs more than that of Vim.  I just disagree that they're in the
>> > same realm of "heavy".
>> >
>> 
>> I disagree this in any way matters on today's CPU speeds and RAM sizes.
>> 
>> (Gods I hate the appeal to bloat way of argumentation.)
>
> I disagree that today's CPU and RAM stats obviate the need for slimmer
> tools sometimes.  For instance, I'm composing this email using mutt+Vim
> over an SSH connection.  While I'm only two rooms away from the system
> where I'm accessing email, I have also been known to use the same means
> of dealing with email from miles away, over the Internet.  Under such
> circumstances, at a bandwidth rate of less than 1Mbps, the "weight" of
> the application is definitely of interest to me.

That's what "tramp" is for.  It uses a shell connection on a tty (ssh,
sudo, su and a number of other possibilities including multihop) in
order to transparently edit files on a different account.

That way, one can use the local Emacs session for working with remote
files (or files from a different account, such as /su::/etc/fstab)
quite cheaply.  No editor at all required on the remote site.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum