Re: [h-e-w] Ange-ftp stalls intermitently

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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.