From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, fmfs@posteo.net, bugs@gnu.support,
npostavs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kfogel@red-bean.com,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: Question collaborative editing.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:20:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83blhni3kr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A6865EB9-D4E9-4C11-B895-AFA3B68BE040@mit.edu> (message from Qiantan Hong on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:04:09 +0000)
> From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
> CC: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>, Fermin <fmfs@posteo.net>,
> Jean Louis
> <bugs@gnu.support>, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>,
> Emacs developers
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>,
> Stefan Monnier
> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:04:09 +0000
>
> >> You don't need buffer-modification hooks, you can use other existing
> >> mechanisms. Emacs knows that buffer text was changed even if the
> >> modification hooks were inhibited.
> > That’s a workaround, but I’m not sure if it can capture user intent
> > (i.e. it gives operation-wise information rather than just a diff between
> > versions of buffer). If it can’t then we will need to implement both
> > update based on modification-hooks and change state of the buffer,
> > which is an additional impl/maintenance burden.
> I see the difference as, if implemented as a C library that keep a buffer
> and synchronize with emacs, then this synchronization *must* be
> absolutely correct, otherwise it mess up any operation on the buffer.
> However if the CRDT is kept on the emacs buffer itself, it’s much
> more tolerant to untracked text in the buffer.
I'm sorry, I probably miss too much background information here,
because I don't really understand what is the issue you are describing
here. E.g., why is user intent important, when all you need is to
keep buffer text synchronized between several sessions?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 151+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200921120518.35d56p747pr5mhta.ref@Ergus>
2020-09-21 12:05 ` Question collaborative editing Ergus
2020-09-21 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21 16:24 ` Ergus
2020-09-21 20:25 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-24 1:36 ` Ergus
2020-09-24 21:41 ` Fermin
2020-09-25 0:22 ` Ergus
2020-09-25 10:34 ` Fermin
2020-09-26 16:33 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 16:01 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-29 21:46 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 9:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-28 0:43 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 0:00 ` Fermin
2020-09-29 1:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-09-29 8:25 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 12:45 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 15:58 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-29 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-29 16:33 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-27 5:10 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-27 12:46 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 17:35 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 23:40 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 0:13 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 0:47 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 7:40 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-30 13:19 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 17:00 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-02 18:48 ` Emacs + Etherpad compatibility? (was: Question collaborative editing.) Karl Fogel
2020-10-02 20:34 ` Emacs + Etherpad compatibility? Stefan Monnier
2020-10-03 10:01 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-30 13:46 ` Question collaborative editing Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 15:47 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 17:00 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 17:04 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-30 17:48 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 23:11 ` Ergus
2020-10-01 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 15:21 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-01 23:10 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-01 15:55 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-01 14:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-01 16:01 ` Ergus
2020-10-01 16:44 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-01 16:53 ` Ergus
2020-10-01 17:29 ` Yuri Khan
2020-10-02 3:00 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-02 7:30 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-02 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 10:01 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-02 11:33 ` Ergus
2020-10-02 12:13 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-04 17:54 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Jean Louis
2020-10-04 18:45 ` Caio Henrique
2020-10-04 19:48 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-04 23:59 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 0:05 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 1:08 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-05 4:40 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-05 5:48 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 6:18 ` Qiantan Hong
[not found] ` <EC602765-9F1A-4269-9F2E-4F05C50AE1E7@mit.edu>
2020-10-05 8:07 ` crdt.el collaborative real time editing for Emacs Jean Louis
2020-10-05 8:22 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 14:03 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 17:05 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 18:17 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 14:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 8:51 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 3:53 ` crdt.el - collaborative " Jean Louis
2020-10-05 4:02 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Jean Louis
2020-10-05 4:11 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 5:34 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 5:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 6:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-05 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 7:31 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 8:44 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-05 17:20 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-06 1:03 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-06 1:41 ` T.V Raman
2020-10-06 8:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-06 17:32 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-20 16:15 ` Ergus
2020-10-20 17:11 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-20 18:51 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-26 20:36 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-27 21:54 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-10-27 22:45 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-29 16:21 ` Ergus
2020-10-28 16:29 ` Question collaborative editing - tools to connect Jean Louis
2020-10-28 16:40 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-28 17:13 ` Question collaborative editing - crdt.el, does it use SSL? Jean Louis
2020-10-28 21:51 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-28 22:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-28 23:08 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-29 5:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-02 9:47 ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-02 10:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-28 17:20 ` Question collaborative editing - torify emacs Jean Louis
2020-10-28 18:01 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-28 18:56 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-29 4:57 ` Question collaborative editing - tools to connect Richard Stallman
2020-10-31 4:16 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-31 5:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-20 18:21 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Jean Louis
2020-10-06 18:20 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-07 0:00 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 1:50 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-09 1:58 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-09 2:12 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 2:42 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-09 7:04 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 8:36 ` joakim
2020-10-09 13:33 ` Joe Corneli
2020-10-09 15:33 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-11 17:49 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-11 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-11 18:26 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-11 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-11 19:57 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-12 2:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-12 3:22 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-12 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-12 16:53 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-13 13:31 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-11 18:40 ` Joe Corneli via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-09 17:46 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-09 17:50 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 20:31 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-10 17:09 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 7:09 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-20 16:37 ` Aurélien Aptel
2020-10-20 18:41 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-26 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-26 20:26 ` too many Jean Louis
2020-10-28 4:45 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Richard Stallman
2020-10-28 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 16:20 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-28 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 16:59 ` Jean Louis
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