Re: Emacs as WM

[Matthew Plant <maplant2@illinois.edu>]

It'd certainly be nice to have some way to share edits across emacs clients - one that functions as a minor mode on top of all major modes. That would be amazing! You could have an additional comments buffer that maps to lines that would be saved to everyone's disk. Code reviews could be made on the fly. I don't think there's a single programming environment that provides that.

-M

> On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:59 PM, "andres.ramirez"  <andres.ramirez@kipuamutay.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard.
> 
> At Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:41:55 -0400,
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> 
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>>> I have some idea what Tox does.
>>> How would Tox enable people to edit a document together?
>>> I do not see how it relates.
>>    tox, lets You share your graphical desktop, among other things,
>> 
>> I am not sure what "share your graphical desktop" looks like,
>> in practice.  Does it mean that all the users are apparently
>> typing at the same Emacs process?  That would be rather a pain.
>> Not as good as sharing a buffer.
> 
> "share your graphical desktop"  does not enable "collaborating editing", just one person edit or
> works with the desktop, and the other ones are just viewing It.
> 
> Sharing a buffer is awesome. +1
> 
> Best Regards
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