From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sharing files? Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:01:02 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87u0rrq0i9.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: <10pfk999l7fsodf@corp.supernews.com> <87sm7cnhpp.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <10pg108cqj13l3d@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100488297 29425 80.91.229.6 (15 Nov 2004 03:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 04:11:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTXH9-0005Pp-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:11:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTXPo-0006E6-C1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:20:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de tHJy8m9qegyvUqz3crg9uARJGE4HLbUXAmFAbbzGTAg5S3VsM= X-Orig-Path: robotron.ath.cx!news Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V6ayII5NV4X9stXfGGisIDRNNZc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126590 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21985 On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:19:04 -0000 Mike wrote: > I'm thinking less of a white-board, though I said that, I'm > thinking really of something like a snippet of code that looks > for timestamp changes and reloads the buffer. It's not > real-time, but should allow sharing of ideas, issues, etc. What > do you think? NFS, SMB,... and auto-revert-mode may do what you want. But it will for sure end in editing conflicts when two persons edit at the same time. This sounds like a job for version control like CVS (I'm sure it will be possible to write a small script that regularly checks for available updates). Well... CVS ends in editing conflicts too but at least it can try to merge and warns you on conflicts. -- David