From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SubEthaEdit style networked editing Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:32:06 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1142266883.831202.314610@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87irq7g3oh.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <1143038756.558808.184410@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1143047663.612599.18490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143056036 8183 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2006 19:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 22 20:33:56 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 1FM95N-0005LP-1Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:33:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FM95M-000560-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:33:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FM954-00054p-Tf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:33:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FM953-00053n-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:33:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FM952-00053a-Ph for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:33:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FM95T-0000rY-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:33:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FM94h-0005D1-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:32:58 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:32:55 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:32:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1143047663.612599.18490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> 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:33945 Archived-At: Shug Boabby wrote: > Kevin wrote: >>But not that they are actually working at the same time. > > of course we can assume this... it would be pointless otherwise! the > whole point of collaborative editing *NOT VERSION CONTROL* is that two > (or more) people can work on the same file *at the same time*. That may very well be the definition of "collaborative editing", but the Emacs developers (the antecedent of "they") collaborate (i.e. work together) asynchronously from distant time zones. > if you think this has anything to do with version control (two people > editing the same file at different times, saving revisions and storing > version info), then you have missed the point of the collaborative > editing concept. at the end of a collaborative editing session, one > person would commit the file to the version control system with a > Changelog. Sounds spiffy! -- Kevin Rodgers