Hi Kevin, I tried Gobby. it's as simple as notepad, so for serious programming/writing it'd feel a bit limited. But the deal breaker is no undo. Yes, you hear that right. I think Gobby is actually feature-wise worse than in-browser alternatives. Best, -Jose
Jose Quesada, PhD. Research scientist, Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer < kun...@student.uib.no> wrote: > 2010/9/24 Gregory Jefferis <jeffe...@gmail.com>: > > Non-interactive collaborative editing means that there can always be one > > live version of a document to which anyone can apply changes that are > > versioned, identified and much more likely. Essentially it solves the > > conflicting merge problem by automatically merging all the time so that > you > > are always looking at the latest version (and can be alerted to recent > > changes). You can try and do this with traditional version control > > arrangements but you will always run into a conflict if the system isn't > > designed for the possibility of interactive collaborative editing. > > And this is the reason why most users love Google Docs and will never > use git (even though as we all know, merging with git is Fun and > Easy). > > > I think the ideal situation would look like Gobby[1] running inside > LyX (not necessarily with chat features, but at least showing where > the other user is editing), but I can understand how that would be a > lot of work to implement. Sponsorship project? ;-) > > > -Kevin > > > [1] http://gobby.0x539.de >
