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Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim
- MetaCosm 13y agoThis is really damn cool. It just comes too late for me. I have adapted to shared tmux sessions -- that allow me to work with shiver the dirty emacs users.
- gingerlime 13y agosame here, and tmux lets you share more than just your vim session. We use it regularly for pair programming, some times even in the same office, each one at his own computer. I liked that coVim launches its own server, so you don't rely on having to ssh to the same box, but at the same time, I imagine ssh should be safer.
- luuse 13y agoWe use the same setup and really like that you share the entire terminal instead of just the editor. Is there any good reason to use this instead of tmux sessions? While it's kinda cool i don't understand why people are trying to put everything in vim instead of using other complementary tools.
- jamesbritt 13y agoWhat seems to be the key feature is the text coloring, which I don't think you can get using screen or tmux.
- gingerlime 13y agoAh! ok, that's a major plus for CoVim then. Looks like I somehow missed the coolest feature.
- legind 13y agotmux supports 256 colors with the -2 flag. I just add an alias in my .bashrc to make this the default.
- gingerlime 13y agoI think he meant having different cursors, each with a different colour assigned to a person, and being able to use each cursor independently. not just colours in general...
- CatMtKing 13y agoDo you mean via wemux? https://github.com/zolrath/wemux https://github.com/zolrath/wemux
- MetaCosm 13y agoNo, vanilla tmux does it.
- nlh 13y agoVery very cool. I like their approach toward file management -- "we'll get the multi-user data into a buffer; you deal with it from there." And now, of course, I'm wishing I had this before I switched my primary editor to SublimeText ;) Anyone know of a similar project for that?
- 97-109-107 13y agoI don't use it myself, but perhaps this is an option for you http://github.com/fatih/subvim http://github.com/fatih/subvim
- btipling 13y agoFloobits works with Sublime Text 2 and 3, emacs and vim and a web editor and Google Hangouts and integrates with GitHub + a permission model and a shared terminal.
- andyl 13y agoWith CoVim, do all the co-editors see the same screen, or can they view different buffers?
- rchiniquy 13y agoSo it's like Floobits but for only one editor? https://floobits.com/ https://floobits.com/
- btipling 13y agoFloobits also uses a centralized service with a web editor where as this vim to vim only.
- pekk 13y agoSo Floobits is like this but it's somehow associated with a startup and doesn't have first-class support for vim?
- songgao 13y agoDoes "first-class" mean it has to be the only one that gets all features and imply all other editors are second-class?
- ciupicri 13y agoToo bad it doesn't use the Infinote protocol just like Gobby [1] and Gedit. That way, everyone could use their own editor while working on the same document. [1] http://gobby.0x539.de/ http://gobby.0x539.de/
- benatkin 13y agoIt's a bummer, but it isn't the CoVim authors' fault that the Gobby developers chose irrelevance. http://git.0x539.de/?p=infinote.git;a=blob;f=COPYING;h=b124cf581250c210960185e8fbf6c967a0538721;hb=HEAD http://git.0x539.de/?p=infinote.git;a=blob;f=COPYING;h=b124c...
- codys 13y agoI don't understand. You've linked to a copy of the LGPLv2.1 in infininote's git repo. Are you saying that their choice of licence primarily caused their product to be less popular?
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- tel 13y agoI was really hoping, based on the title, that this would be a coeditor which types code to you.