"Helmut" == Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at writes:
Helmut> I don't know why people are so keen to use a setup where the Lisp and Helmut> Emacs are on different machines, but whenever I tried to do something Helmut> like that (e.g, with remote-compile) it didn't work very well and I Helmut> always run Emacs on the same machine. Is this a feature we want to Helmut> support or is this a would-be-nice-in-an-ideal-world thing?
Not a very good argument, but this is something that Franz' ELI does out of the box.
More specific reasons could be that the machine on your desktop doesn't have that much RAM, but you have server that has, so running your development lisp process remotely makes your local machine suffer less (I may be special, but with 32+ Mb emacs process and the CL based eclipse window manager there is some fighting over RAM ressources).
It could also be that you were doing some cross-platform developement. Ie. yuor desktop is an i386 but your target is sparc or PowerPc.
Or Your server could have something specific software or information installed or accessible that is important to your lisp application.
Paths is a problem, but the cases cited above will still be interesting even if you had one siteglobal (automounted) shared (home)directory where you kept your lisp files, in which case the path problem kind of goes away.
------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #@ defun #. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)