Re:Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)
by ErrantX on Thursday November 20, 2008 @09:47AM
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I know what you mean :D that would be rather cool
Thinking about it (going back slightly) there are not many situations where I see anyone actually coding with others in REAL time. Perhaps on hackathons (actually it would be ace for them) or suchlike - but for real work I doubt it would work. So the big selling point is gone: and there is nothing else to support it as a useful app (when Google docs has 100x the features).
That said I hope that will change in the future because it is rather nifty :D
One thing I've often wished for was a standard syntax for specifying syntax highlighting modes. Right now basically every text editor has a different way of doing it, so you have to write dozens of modes when you create a new language or editor.