From: Chad Perrin Date: 2007-03-20T08:27:52+09:00 Subject: Re: SciTE Alternatives On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:10:18AM +0900, David Kastrup wrote: > Chad Perrin 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. Sometimes, the remote site is the only place one has an appropriate editor. Haven't you ever had to access email from someone else's computer? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition.