crdt.el - collaborative editing for Emacs

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

Hello Qiantan,

Genious!! That is great, thank you. I have tested it.

It was very easy to start editing, to expose the buffer for
collaboration. 

Could you polish the code, then include the license and propose to
Emacs developers to include it in main stream?

I guess that those that need collaboration will need to start main
Emacs instance on the Internet server. It should be possible to start
remote instance by using ssh, without controlling in real time the
remote instance.

It looks very similar to Gobby editor.

There shall be display of users connected. I did not connect more than
one user.

Jean

* Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> [2020-10-05 03:00]:
> I’ve finished the initial work for a CRDT based
> collaborative editing Elisp package. The .el is attached.
> 
> The focus is on implementing the core algorithm
> and evaluating performance, so no cursor indicator,
> username display etc was implemented. However,
> they should be easy to add and not relevant to performance
> concern.
> 
> I’ve tested it with my friends and the performance seems 
> reasonable. Using LogootSplit algorithm, the number of
> text property changes are relatively small.
> 
> M-x crdt-test-server starts a local server at port 1333,
> and M-x crdt-test-client connects to 127.0.0.1:1333.
> Or use crdt-serve-buffer and crdt-connect for arbitrary
> address/port.