On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:09:38PM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2007-04-11, Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Bram, > > Is it possible to add this item to the vim voting list ?: > > > > "collaboration of N vim instances editing same file" > > -- Ability of N instances of vim to absorb, merge and show changes > > to the same file made by other running vim instances [ either by reading > > other vim's swapfiles, or somehow else ] ? > > > > Can this be added to SOC ? > > If you want this collaboration to occur in real time, then I would > recommend that you use a screen session in multi-user mode. This > solution already exists; it works with applications other than vim; > it avoids complicating the vim code. > > See the screen(1) man page and search for "multi".
Are you (Is he) talking about several users concurrently modifying the same file(s) .. possibly from different geographic locations? I can't think of any valid reason why one lonely user - me for instance - would want to fire up several instances of vim to edit the same file. Or could he be talking about some non-interactive mode .. with possibly scripts updating a common file? Sorry I hooked up to this particular message .. I no longer have the OP's initial message. Thanks, cga
