From: "David (World) Reitter" <david.reitter@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Collaborative editing and persistently tracking changes
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:56:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a3be365-3f19-4e9f-b302-c95722996a5d@s6g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnhag104.fam.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl
On Sep 9, 3:38 pm, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I would need a combination of highlight-changes-mode and a way to save
> > and load the change history of a buffer into a file, just like MS Word
> > does it (with the new open docx format).
>
> highlight-changes-mode uses text properties to track changes. the elisp manual
> describes a theoretical method of saving text properties to a file:
Right, but even then you'd only save the properties and not the
semantics (unless track-changes uses only properties, which it may
well do).
Upon loading changes in, you should be able to accept / reject each
change.
And of course I'd like to see who made the change.
Basically, MS Word does a good job. It also merges changes, something
even modern version control systems can't do well enough (since they
are line-oriented).
I think this is a huge omission on the part of GNU Emacs...
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2009-09-09 19:38 ` Collaborative editing and persistently tracking changes Joost Kremers
2009-09-18 18:56 ` David (World) Reitter [this message]
2009-09-09 17:05 David Reitter
2009-09-09 17:57 ` Andreas Politz
2009-09-10 13:21 ` Andreas Röhler
2009-09-10 17:53 ` David Reitter
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