[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

[Joe Landman]

typed on a phone, so auto-co-wrecked ... VNC


On 06/06/2018 05:56 PM, David Mathog wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses.
>
> On 06-Jun-2018 14:40, Joe Landman wrote:
>> When I absolutely need a gui for something this this, I'll light up
>> BBC over ssh session.  Performance has been good even crossing the big
>> pond.
>
> What is BBC?  Google wasn't much help given the British Broadcasting 
> Company's enormous web footprint.
>
> Yes, nedit.  It is old but it still works (especially for column 
> operations, which I use a lot).  Admittedly it is useless with utf 
> encoded text, but 99.999% of what I do is ANSI, so that is rarely an 
> issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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