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What is the latency like developing in vim over ssh? I would find the little bit of wait with each key stroke annoying quickly.
by btipling 14y ago
What is the latency like developing in vim over ssh? I would find the little bit of wait with each key stroke annoying quickly.
- jiggy2011 14y agoObviously that will depend on your connection but also on whether you are using vim in text mode or using something like gvim via X11 tunelling. You can do text mode in near realtime on a 56k modem, OTOH I still have some noticeable lag (typing is ok, but menus etc lag) on my home broadband if I'm doing X11 forwarding.
- enoch_r 14y agoHaving done this occasionally, it usually wasn't bad at all, but occasionally it got frustrating enough that I'd use a local clone of the repo. It's for that reason that I'm hesitant to go this route (or the iPad/keyboard route). Interestingly enough, one of the main problems vim was attempting to solve was the annoyance of dealing with a high-latency connection: http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/people/joy-vi.html http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/people/joy-vi.html
- johncoltrane 14y agoIn my experience, it's negligible. There will be lag but not the kind that makes you wait for something to happen after you have pressed a button. Actions that require a lot of redrawing tend to lag, though: if you only know `hjkl` navigation and visually select every string you want to work on you will definetely experience some lag. On the other hand, if you use more "advanced" movements and use text-objects and Ex commands extensively, you won't find reasons to complain.