SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live collaboration feature

Re:SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live ... by elviejo on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:08AM (#23203081)

What 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.

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Re:SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live ... by dunham on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:56AM (#23204458)

I 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.

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Re:SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live ... by teddyh on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:04PM (#23204581)

A.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.

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Re:SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live ... by bjonnh on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:02AM (#23203917)

What happens when network drops? Do you have a chance to merge conflicts? Or one version wins?

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