> I feel like a grumpy fossil for asking this, but if your problem is “Sometimes you have to use non-personal computers where it's not possible/undesirable to install desktop Emacs,” why not run emacs the way it has been run in exactly those sorts of situations for almost 50 years? Remotely, via shell?
Ugh.
So I did this. Not recently, but in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Our startup was moved across the street from its incubator (Idealab). WiFi wasn't a thing, broadband was far from mainstream, and most generic office space wasn't wired for networking. So we had a microwave link (I think) connecting our workspace to fat pipes across the street.
For anything interactive, it was awful. Waiting >500ms for each keystroke to appear is a very difficult experience.
Thankfully after a week or two, I discovered TRAMP mode.[1]
Ugh.
So I did this. Not recently, but in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Our startup was moved across the street from its incubator (Idealab). WiFi wasn't a thing, broadband was far from mainstream, and most generic office space wasn't wired for networking. So we had a microwave link (I think) connecting our workspace to fat pipes across the street.
For anything interactive, it was awful. Waiting >500ms for each keystroke to appear is a very difficult experience.
Thankfully after a week or two, I discovered TRAMP mode.[1]
[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode