From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:32:06 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <87ftbenz0p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874krvup4i.fsf@gnu.org> <835zcag76g.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="92563"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cc: excalamus@tutanota.com, van.ly+2020@sdf.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 01:33:00 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jftvQ-000Nxc-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:33:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57680 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jftvP-0006QO-CQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jftui-0005uv-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59718) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jftui-0002HY-C4; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-32-82-254-31-120.adsl.proxad.net ([82.254.31.120]:51280 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jftub-0002dh-31; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AEAD01A60813; Tue, 2 Jun 2020 01:32:06 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <835zcag76g.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:03:03 +0300") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251744 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Bastien >> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:11:41 +0200 >> Cc: excalamus@tutanota.com, Van Ly , >> Richard Stallman >> >> > What about collaborative editing? >> >> FWIW, this is something Org users have been wanting for years. > > What is missing in Emacs to make this possible? I don't know for sure. In the past, I was able to collaborate with a friend using an Emacs extension called "Rudel", which lets two distant buffers communicate with each other over the Gobby protocol. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel indicates that the reference implementation for the Gobby protocol is broken. I have not tried. So perhaps the required work is not on the Emacs side, but on that of the protocol and its implementation. -- Bastien