Random Wisdom » gobby http://scrolls.mafgani.net An attempt at organizing my thoughts ... Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:54:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Realtime collaborative text editing http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2008/11/realtime-collaborative-text-editing/ http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2008/11/realtime-collaborative-text-editing/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:42:00 +0000 Mostafa http://scrolls.mafgani.net/?p=104 A while ago, I came across Etherpad. It a web based platform that allows multiple users to simultaneously edit a single text file. Since it doesn’t seem to support any kind of mark-up at the moment, it would seem that it’s not terribly useful for word processing tasks. Perhaps it’s good for real-time collaborative coding and the creation of agenda type lists …

The software equivalent of Etherpad is Gobby. It’s a multi-platform tool that claims to run on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms — making it almost as flexible as a web-based service. There are a number of other advantages:

  • Flexibility and security that comes from having absolute control over the sessions.
  • Syntax highlighting!
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