In the end we all had a clean, detailed, copyedited document. It was a pretty amazing experience. I was sure I'd just witnessed the future of collaboration for lectures and conferences[2].
[1]At the time, SubEthaEdit was called "Hydra" and BonJour was still "Rendezvous". [2]I guess the actual future turned out to mostly be scrolling though Twitter. c'est la vie.
>>What are my hopes for the future?
- Attract contributors to ensure a long term thriving ecosystem
- The free availability both in and out of the App Store should reduce the barrier to entry to the collaborative use cases in education, pair programming, etc, leading to good bug reports and use cases that are worth investing some future development in
- Support for more languages, modes and contributions thereof
- Longevity of SubEthaEdit as a product<< (edited formatting, thanks davemp)- The free availability both in and out of the App Store should reduce the barrier to entry to the collaborative use cases in education, pair programming, etc, leading to good bug reports and use cases that are worth investing some future development in
- Support for more languages, modes and contributions thereof
- Longevity of SubEthaEdit as a product
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Really excited to see it open sourced. What a fascinating piece of software history.
(Also: Carcassonne for iOS remains the best board game port I've ever played)
Glad I waited. I still love the coloured changes for modified text in a document (that stay on after saving!), it's really really handy when working on a longish file to have quick visual clues when scrolling back/forth. I wish more editors had that.
lots of editors have plugins (like git-gutter for sublime) that do this with VCS integration: highlight lines that were modified since last commit. for me, this is even better because it remains not just after saving the file but even after closing the file/editor and re-opening it.
combined with a minimap like sublime's which also shows the gutter annotations, i can navigate a many-thousand-line file with lightning speed.
Seeing collaborative editing working so seamlessly was just magical.
Language server protocol support would rock.
Having tried Floobits, the experience was ok. But I do a lot of pairing online with 0 day beginners, and need something as little setup as possible. ie. The students are able to install Sublime and Packages. Having to sign up for Floobits is just another step I'd like to avoid.
I suppose I'm looking for a service (paid or otherwise) that provides urls which would relay the keystrokes between editors facilitated by a Sublime package. Does anything like that exist?
https://docs.c9.io/docs/share-a-workspace
Sorry I can't help on the Sublime side - I've tried Floobits with moderate success, but understand your need for something that's more "plug and play".
for example: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63542 just look at the difference between sublime and vs code.
the new ui in vs code also made things slower: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60419
Unfortunately, as a primary code editor, it was never for me as an avid user of TextMate (and reluctant of Xcode) in the early days, before I finally learnt vim and never looked back around 8 years ago or so.
I mean, I've always been around a high density of Macs and later MBPs (from ~2008 on) but I've also never seen people really use it. I guess it's because most coworkers in the office had the project's/company's standard IDE.