"vi" & Supercomputer Performance

[Sill D E]

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