Re: Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> [2020-10-05 07:11]:
> > - let each user customize their username in collaborative
> >  client-server connection, just as Gobby editor is doing it. Without
> >  such feature none of the users will know who is the other user.
> Thanks for your suggestion!
> I’m thinking of grabbing some code from https://github.com/zk-phi/togetherly/
> It uses different color to distinguish users. I can probably then add some
> way to toggle displaying full user name with some hotkey to toggle.
> Also need to add a list of connected users and color.

I do not think that user names should be disturbing much, but it
should be displayed, maybe in the minibuffer, that user "Qiantan" is
editing currently the text.

Other idea is that at least temporarily, the text edited by certain
user could have specific color of the user. Colors should be assign by
the server. Color would disappear as soon as user stops editing.

> > - make sure that it can also start through Tor
> Haven't test it. The current stuff sends S-exps over TCP, anybody
> knows any potential problem interacting with VPN/Tor?

Maybe that is too much at once.

> > - enable server to have password, so that not every user without
> >  password can connect, just as Gobby editor is doing it.
> Does it have one single temporary password of a server or
> instead a user-password model? If it’s the former then is it reasonable
> to just send plain password (over TLS connection)? Then that will
> be quick to implement.

I think that there should be single password to enter single editing
session, when editing session starts, password should be requested or
customized as default.