You might have already tried this: I’ve had fantastic performance starting a remote emacs server and using emacs (often in terminal mode) through ssh. It certa

You might have already tried this: I’ve had fantastic performance starting a remote emacs server and using emacs (often in terminal mode) through ssh. It certainly has a one time cost: setup your local terminal for all keys to go through, and sync your init files. I still use tramp for certain rare cases but most work happens on 3 remote and 1 local machine with four different emacs servers running, and a couple of additional non-development machines that I simply ssh into from within emacs shells.