Hi Bram,

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:08:30PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> You need to take care of authentication, for example.
Good point, thanks.

> One thing would be awesome: To have a cross-platform collaboration edit
> mechanism that works will several editors.  One that only works with Vim
> will be limited in worldwide acceptance.
> 
> Google Drive offers something that might work. The mechanism is working
> very well, at least for Google documents.  Problem is that the library
> is only available for JavaScript.  So it would require embedding a
> JavaScript interpreter in Vim.  It's not impossible...
> https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/
This would bind VIm to an API which has a proprietary server
implementation, something I'd rather avoid.

However, I think that EtherpadLite offers a protocol I could implement
and which should work well. Unless someone stops me, that would be the
one I'll be aiming for then.

Regards,
  Drahflow

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