[EnigmaCurry]

> some glaring issues - tramp being a major one. It’s slow and very unreliable.

Over SSH? Did you turn on ssh connection sharing in ssh config?

> ControlMaster auto

> ControlPersist yes

> ControlPath /tmp/ssh-%u-%r@%h:%p

massive speedup when you do this, otherwise it starts a new connection for every operation.

[spudlyo]

Tramp is fast for me as well, it did take some work though. I had to configure it to use my controlmaster options from my ~/.ssh/config, set tramp-verbose to 0, set remote-file-name-inhibit-locks to t, and finally set vc-handled-backends to just Git. I'm glad I spent the effort to make it fast though, because now it's pretty magical.

[softirq]

Yes, and it's not that it's just slow, it also freezes Emacs completely when it borks (and it does bork). I also found that none of the emacs terminals could correctly display my prompt and I ended up writing a bunch of bash conditionals to make my prompt dumber to work in Emacs. Just worked out of the box with Vim's :term.

[chlorion]

A common thing people run into with Emacs is using the "shell" under the impression that it's a terminal emulator. You want "term" for a proper terminal emulator that can handle fancy terminal stuff. The "term" terminal emulator can even run TUI stuff like nano, and even vim itself!

[jamespo]

Are you using tramp on a LAN or halfway round the world with 200ms latency and poor bandwidth?