Etherpad gets a makeover and becomes even more of a threat to Google Docs

Re:Etherpad gets a makeover and becomes even more of a threa... by sgrove on Thursday July 23, 2009 @09:54PM (#720764)

I've found recently that a nice option for emacs users to get 99.9% of the same functionality is to have two (or more) users ssh into a server, share gnu screen sessions, and start emacs 23 + emacsclient. Everyone has full access to their own emacs, but share buffers with everyone else. You can simultaneously edit the same buffers, etc.

I know this isn't the niche that etherpad is aiming for, but there are a number of groups dispersed looking for this kind of functionality. For team coding while separate, this plus ichat provides a very compelling experience.

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Re:Etherpad gets a makeover and becomes even more of a threa... by litewulf on Friday July 24, 2009 @03:39AM (#721135)

You can actually open a new emacs window in a different screen. So the cool use is to have someone login to their machine on their laptop, open emacs, then have them spawn a new window in the running X server.

Yay emacs.

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