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".
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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