#561318 console-based multiplayer vim

Package:
vim
Source:
vim
Description:
Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
Submitter:
yellowprotoss
Date:
2010-01-22 21:48:09 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#561318#5
Date:
2009-12-16 04:16:58 UTC
From:
To:

Hello

I am connecting to my friend using SSH, and he would like to work together on a document from school. a simple TXT file would be perfect !!
I know there is gobby for that: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/wiki/Screenshots but it is for X only.

Unfortunately vim do not offer this options of multiplayer edition, or not yet. It would be great that several users logged into a machine could modify and collaborate on a file store on the machine, or on a shared folder.

a sort of
Quote:
mc -e multiplayerfilenotepad.txt
could be great, with beautiful colors and stuffs...

thank you so much!

Best regards
Y.

#561318#8
Date:
2010-01-08 02:15:22 UTC
From:
To:
You can already do this using screen.
#561318#13
Date:
2010-01-22 21:44:42 UTC
From:
To:
user vim@packages.debian.org
usertag 561318 vim vim-uptodo
thanks

If you don't have to work on it at the same time, using a version
control system is a good way to collaborate.

There has been various discussions[0][1][2] about adding such
functionality to Vim.  It is also on Vim's voting list[3] for features,
but is not very high so I doubt it will get implemented soon.

Regardless, this isn't something that will be implemented as a patch to
the Debian package.  It would be a very large amount of work and is best
done with close coordination to upstream.

[0] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim/53326
[1] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim.devel/18592
[2] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim.devel/19628
[3] - http://www.vim.org/sponsor/vote_results.php