Re: SubEthaEdit style networked editing

[Kevin Rodgers]

Shug Boabby wrote:
> Kevin wrote:
> > But not that they are actually working at the same time.
>
> of course we can assume this... it would be pointless otherwise! the
> whole point of collaborative editing *NOT VERSION CONTROL* is that two
> (or more) people can work on the same file *at the same time*.

That may very well be the definition of "collaborative editing", but the
Emacs developers (the antecedent of "they") collaborate (i.e. work 
together) asynchronously from distant time zones.

> if you think this has anything to do with version control (two people
> editing the same file at different times, saving revisions and storing
> version info), then you have missed the point of the collaborative
> editing concept. at the end of a collaborative editing session, one
> person would commit the file to the version control system with a
> Changelog.

Sounds spiffy!

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Kevin Rodgers