Collaborative Text Editor

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Sat Jul 17 06:24:03 EDT 2004


Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> John J. Lee wrote:
> > The way I've always imagined it working is as follows.  I'm sure
> > experimentation is the way to find out what works, though, so Twisted
> > certainly sounds like a great idea.
> > - At any time, exactly one person has control.
> > - The only person able to move the cursor and edit text is the one
> >   with control.
> [snip other ideas]
> 
> There are already editors that support such things, so imagining
> how it works, while interesting, might not be the best approach
> to get started...   vim, for example, already can do this sort
> of thing.  I'm certain there are others out there.

Could you provide a link to any info on how to do this in vim?


John



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