"vi" & Supercomputer Performance
Sill D E
de5 at de5.ctd.ornl.gov
Tue Oct 9 22:03:23 AEST 1990
In article <3814 at network.ucsd.edu>, booker at network.ucsd.edu (Booker bense) writes:
>In article <1990Oct4.050509.11405 at eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> vvawh at convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Tony Hackenberg) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know if there are versions of "vi", "emacs", or other
>>full screen editors that are written to minimize performance
>>hits on supercomputers?
>
>Several people in the systems group here have studied such things, they
>have even developed an rvi which allows remote editing of files on the
>YMP.
And the there's GNU Emacs, which, right out of the box, can edit files
remotely using ftp. Add Andy Norman's "ange-ftp" package, and it's
almost transparent. It even does filename completion.
--
Dave Sill (de5 at ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support
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