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Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor
- Daishiman 11y agoI've used this for writing term papers back then. Very useful little tool.
- mherrmann 11y agoI would have loved to see at least one screenshot. Without one, there is no incentive for me to further look into the project.
- neverlast01 11y agoI came here to say the same thing. This project is quite old (over 5 years old according to some of the commits). I would expect a little more polish for something that has been around for so long.
- ghthor 11y agoThe development has really dropped off, and I doubt they're many users out there in the world.
- majewsky 11y agoIt's actually older. I remember using this in 2007 to write lecture notes in LaTeX in collaboration with a friend (our notebooks being connected by Ethernet since the university did not have WiFi back in the days).
- ybx 11y agoJust search "Gobby text editor" on google images.
- simonw 11y agoOr even better, an animated gif showing it in action.
- toomim 11y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCDEgvz_Rqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCDEgvz_Rqw
- lwf 11y agohttps://screenshots.debian.net/package/gobby https://screenshots.debian.net/package/gobby
- Zekio 11y agoWonder how well the Dedicated server part would run on a raspberry pi :)
- elsamuko 11y agoI have a pi2 with smb, etherpad lite, prosody and sshd and it uses 170 MB after two weeks uptime.
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- baldfat 11y agoI have used EtherPad and found it a decent tool that looks a little nicer. http://etherpad.org/ http://etherpad.org/
- ultramancool 11y agoGobby is better than Etherpad if you're editing code though.
- Daviey 11y agoThe Ubuntu Developers Summit used to use Gobby for collaborative notes and it served it reasonably well with hundreds of concurrent connections.. but it did crash on occasion. However, it did later move to Etherpad (Java based).. and then Etherpad Lite (nodejs based).
- arfar 11y agoI'm always interested to find out how people decide upon names for their projects. In New Zealand "gobby" is slang for a blow job, not sure if that makes me want to try it more or less though.
- fowl2 11y agoAustralia too.
- pc2g4d 11y agoWasn't gobby (the software project) originally named as a play on another collaborative editor named Lobby? That's what my memory is telling me.
- ben0x539 11y agoThe author's previous iteration of a library for multi-user text editing was called libobby, so that it'd be manually linked with -lobby. It might have been named some time after reading about libiberty and the like. Naturally, the Gtk GUI app had to have a G prepended to that, and the name was kept even though libobby was dropped in favor of a new, C-based library implementing a more complete algorithm with a slightly less gimmicky name. Maybe globby would have been a better call...
- balladeer 11y agoThat's the thing with languages. Laura means penis in Hindi (or the tip of it), and it's kind of a proper word, not just a slang. Randi means prostitute, another proper word. These are the names people must have chosen for their children at some point. So people usually just pick a name that is not a slang or offensive or heavily inappropriate in the languages, cultures known to them.
- collypops 11y agoRandi isn't _that_ surprising
- nanoojaboo 11y ago
- bau5 11y agogobby pls
- chei0aiV 11y agoI wish someone would write a web frontend to the protocol, so we could use that instead of websites like etherpad.org/titanpad.org.
- martinflack 11y agoHas anyone tried to do serious collaborative editing in emacs or vim? Any success there? I'd rather not learn another editor just for collaboration.
- akkartik 11y agoI teach programming long-distance using tmux on a remote server. That works pretty well: http://akkartik.name/post/mu http://akkartik.name/post/mu
- ashi 11y agoFor emacs, we have Rudel, which is even compatible with Gobby. http://rudel.sourceforge.net/ http://rudel.sourceforge.net/ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel
- pdkl95 11y ago> Collaborative Text Editor http://bash.org/?85514 http://bash.org/?85514 <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
- kaoD 11y agoThis kept me thinking... nowadays you'd describe IRC as Realtime Twitter.
- cookiemonsta 11y agoWeird (interesting) choice of name... 'gobby'...
- Ace17 11y agoWhat's the point of a multiplayer notepad when we have editor-independent version control?
- ybx 11y agoimmediate feedback.
- bildung 11y agoThe use case is synchronous editing. I've used gobby e.g. for writing minutes during a meeting. Everyone was logged in and could see/edit the current state. Very useful when dealing with dense/complex topics because this way misunderstandings etc. get corrected instantaneously.
- jessevdk 11y agogobby may not be the best editor out there, but as far as I know it's goal was to be a testbed/implementation of the obby (now infinote [1]) collaborative editing protocol. The underlying library is quite easy to use and integrate into existing editors, for example I once implemented a gedit plugin [2] which used libinfinity to add collaborative editing to gedit although it has since gone stale. [1]: http://infinote.org/ http://infinote.org/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXzI2dInXKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXzI2dInXKI
- mdonahoe 11y agoThis was great back in college, but I haven't used it since collaborative web editors came on the scene