Re: Emacs as WM

[Josh]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:59 PM, andres.ramirez <address@hidden> wrote:

At Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:41:55 -0400,

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > 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

Nic put together something along these lines last year that might

be of interest: https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-swarmhacker