The "loop and a half"

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Have you ever worked on a slow remote session where a GUI is
>>> completely impracticable (or maybe even unavailable), and redrawing
>>> the screen is too expensive to do all the time?
>>
>> So where does the redrawing happen? The machine youre sitting on (let's
>> call it 'A') and send remote commands or retrieving text files? Or the
>> redrawing must be synced on both A and
>> the remote machine? If so, then why so?
>> How does the bandwidth implies that you must edit stuff in the console on
>> A?
>> And not in a nice editor with normal fonts?
>> Am i missing something or your 'A' machine cannot use graphics? Even on 386
>> computers
>> there was graphics and keybord&mouse input. That is definitely what I would
>> want
>> for editing files. Yes I've tried line by line eding back in DOS times and
>> that really sucks.
>
> Mostly, I use an SSH session without X11 forwarding, so everything
> happens on that link. Redrawing happens on "A", and the program runs
> on "B". It is technologically possible to have a GUI (that's what X11
> forwarding is for), but it's a lot more fiddliness and bandwidth, and
> it requires that "B" have the appropriate GUI libraries installed, so
> I often don't or can't do that.

Or you could use a GUI editor that runs locally and has the capability
to edit files remotely over ssh.