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[Javier Arantegui <address@hidden>]

Hello!

This may be (or not) a mad suggestion. Would it be possible to make TeXmacs a 
"Collaborative editor" (1)? Something like Gobby (2) or SubEthaEdit (3). It's 
obvious that most of us work with other people and that the management of 
different versions of a document is quite difficult.

When several people work with the same document simultaneously is very 
difficult to mantain all the versions of the document synchronised. This can 
be solved, at least partially, using collaborative editors.

All the existing collaborative editors are just for text, as the ones I 
mentioned before. I know that some work is being done in this direction by 
the programmers of AbiWord (4). There is a Flash screencast showing the 
capabilities of AbiWord (5). It seems that they use one of the libraries of 
Gobby to do that, one called libobby.

Wouldn't be amazing or not if TeXmacs could be a collaborative editor? This 
could make it a definitive killer application. Frankly, I don't know even if 
this is possible or not. But, this is the reason of the Subject line.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor
(2) http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
(3) http://www.codingmonkeys.de/
(4) http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/AbiCollab
(5) http://www.abisource.com/~uwog/abiword/abicollab.htm

Best regards,

Javier


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Javier Arántegui
Dept. Tecnologia de Alimentos / Dept. of Food Technology
Universitat de Lleida / University of Lleida (Spain)
         
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