Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim

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by jamesbritt • 13 years ago

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MetaCosm2• 13 years ago

This 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.

gingerlime3• 13 years ago

same 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• 13 years ago

We 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• 13 years ago

What seems to be the key feature is the text coloring, which I don't think you can get using screen or tmux.

CatMtKing• 13 years ago

Do you mean via wemux? https://github.com/zolrath/wemux

MetaCosm2• 13 years ago

No, vanilla tmux does it.

nlh• 13 years ago

Very 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• 13 years ago

I don't use it myself, but perhaps this is an option for you http://github.com/fatih/subvim

btipling2• 13 years ago

Floobits 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• 13 years ago

With CoVim, do all the co-editors see the same screen, or can they view different buffers?

rchiniquy• 13 years ago

So it's like Floobits but for only one editor? https://floobits.com/

btipling2• 13 years ago

Floobits also uses a centralized service with a web editor where as this vim to vim only.

pekk• 13 years ago

So Floobits is like this but it's somehow associated with a startup and doesn't have first-class support for vim?

songgao• 13 years ago

Does "first-class" mean it has to be the only one that gets all features and imply all other editors are second-class?

ciupicri• 13 years ago

Too 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/

benatkin2• 13 years ago

It'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=b124c...

codys• 13 years ago

I 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?

tel• 13 years ago

I was really hoping, based on the title, that this would be a coeditor which types code to you.

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