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I wish we would have the equivalent of the language servers but for collaborative editing. That way you could edit with one user in emacs, one in vscode, one in
by bjonnh 6y ago
I wish we would have the equivalent of the language servers but for collaborative editing. That way you could edit with one user in emacs, one in vscode, one in intellij etc.
- jpgvm 6y agoI once used something called Floobits[1] that was capable of this. In practice collaborative editing wasn't that much more useful vs screen sharing and the additional constraints of managing Floobits workspaces didn't make it worth it for us. [1] https://floobits.com/ https://floobits.com/
- em-bee 6y agoi find collaborative editing most useful for online docs, like wiki pages, etc. not having to worry about locking makes a big difference when editing is fast paced
- elviejo 6y agoWhat makes floobits awesome is that it could will allow someone using Vim and someone using Emacs to do pair programming. And if you can make Emacs and vim users happy then you can have world peace. The only problem we had with it, was that it was only 99% reliable... And that 1% error (in the connections dropping and such) was annoying. But I still consider floobits a project with great potential.
- bjonnh 6y agoWhat happens when network drops? Do you have a chance to merge conflicts? Or one version wins?
- dunham 6y agoI did pair programming on XEmacs in the 90's by opening a new frame on a second X server. It worked surprisingly well as long as both people stayed out of the minibuffer.
- teddyh 6y agoA.k.a. M-x make-frame-on-display. It’s nice, but it does not show the cursor of the other person, which makes it hard.
- bjonnh 6y agoThat looks nice, however for those interested, only the plugins are opensource and usage is not free. The good thing is that it shows what is possible.
- sulam 6y agoNot every tool we use has to be free.
- radarsat1 6y agoThat is such a great idea. The need for a service like overleaf to provide an entire front-end + text editor is just ridiculous when there is already so much existing software out there. Multiple editors with realtime shared data + shared previewing tools totally should be a thing.
- pabs3 6y agoSounds like a good addition to the gobby/libinfinity project: https://github.com/gobby/ https://github.com/gobby/