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Collaborative back-end required

Posted Nov 2, 2012 13:00 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
In reply to: Collaborative coding with Collide and friends by mtaht
Parent article: Collaborative coding with Collide and friends

The previous post makes a good point. I after all already have an IDE that is lovingly tuned to my usage case with innumerable quirks and tweaks I find useful. I'm lead to believe there are hackers out there who don't use Emacs who I might want to collaborate with. They likely have their own favourite IDE/editor which works for them.

Really what you need is an open API for communicating with such cloud-like collaboration services that can be plugged into any number of editors. I'm sure a web front end will also be useful for those quick edit sessions. In the mean time what can I use for C-x f collab:/server/project/file?


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Collaborative back-end required

Posted Nov 5, 2012 12:26 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

It is called google wave, and it is bit-rotting somewhere...

Collaborative back-end required

Posted Nov 10, 2012 13:14 UTC (Sat) by valhalla (subscriber, #56634) [Link]

Wouldn't Infinote work as a protocol? It is the one used by the editors gobby and kobby (and the sobby server, of course).

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Posted Nov 10, 2012 16:13 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

IIRC rudel.el can use Infinote too (though I haven't tried it).

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