On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> My pleasure - i'm loving it already (in a chat-coding session) and should
>> have done it months ago.
>>
>
> "chat-coding session" reminds me that an old, long out of production, IDE
> had a collaborative editing feature.
>

GChat is a newer one ;)
https://plus.google.com/104981852298046595282/posts/8TVedyAWkpm



> Unfortunately, the original publisher chose to not offer a collaboration
> server for the IDE, but instead just said "works with any IRC server".
>

IIRC (maybe not) intelliJ has a similar feature.


> While many of my clients did use that IDE (and a few still do), IRC was a
> "never going to do that here" thing. Now days, most of my clients use Cisco
> Jabber. But it's configured to only allow access via the Cisco Jabber
> Client, so even if there were an XMPP based collaborative editing feature
> in any IDE, there would still be hard to put it into actual use. (And there
> would still be the "I'm not going to pay an engineer to watch another
> engineer type" factor to get around)
>

i have not ever collaboratively coded, but would love to try. i enjoy
editing docs in collab with others in GDocs. That said, VNC/X11/RDP would
suffice for my old-fashioned coding environment (emacs/shell/make). The
only things i use IDEs for nowadays are Java (IDE necessary!) and JS
(because emacs can't indent it worth a darn ;). But a collaborative editor
- i'd try that.

-- 
----- stephan beal
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"Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of
those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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