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From: de5@de5.ctd.ornl.gov (Sill D E)
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Subject: Re: "vi" & Supercomputer Performance
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.120323.18491@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 12:03:23 GMT
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In article <3814@network.ucsd.edu>, booker@network.ucsd.edu (Booker bense) writes:
>In article <1990Oct4.050509.11405@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> vvawh@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@ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support