From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shug Boabby" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SubEthaEdit style networked editing Date: 15 Mar 2006 09:04:08 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1142442248.913210.272870@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1142266883.831202.314610@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <85k6aypax9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <1142269751.334229.300540@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142442402 4423 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 17:06:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 18:06:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJZRx-0003iC-6F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJZRv-0004BD-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:06:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.192.22.143 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1142442255 30048 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2006 17:04:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:04:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.192.22.143; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138190 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33803 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl wrote: > This is a bit off topic and I am not trolling: what are the things you > need to edit with other people at the same time? I have always > wondered, probably because I seldom or never has seen the use myself. Sorry, my other reply was very long. to answer your question more directly, I believe that the situation where collaborative editing is most useful is when you find more than one person huddled around a computer screen, with a designated typist. With collaborative editing... you can all be adding your 2 cents, and you see what other people have added, graphically (the background of each character is colour coded for each user). and the typist is now in a better position to contribute... without the stress. If you don't believe me... go grab "Gobby" and use it the next time you find yourself looking over someone's shoulder (or with them over yours).