Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim(fredkschott.com)

126 pointsby jamesbrittvor 13 Jahren23 comments

Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim

http://fredkschott.com/post/50510962864/introducing-covim-collaborative-editing-for-vim

6 comments

MetaCosmvor 13 Jahren

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.

gingerlimevor 13 Jahren

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.

luusevor 13 Jahren

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.

jamesbrittvor 13 Jahren

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

legindvor 13 Jahren

tmux supports 256 colors with the -2 flag. I just add an alias in my .bashrc to make this the default.

gingerlimevor 13 Jahren

I think he meant having different cursors, each with a different colour assigned to a person, and being able to use each cursor independently. not just colours in general...

gingerlimevor 13 Jahren

Ah! ok, that's a major plus for CoVim then. Looks like I somehow missed the coolest feature.

CatMtKingvor 13 Jahren

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

MetaCosmvor 13 Jahren

No, vanilla tmux does it.

nlhvor 13 Jahren

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?

btiplingvor 13 Jahren

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.

97-109-107vor 13 Jahren

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

rchiniquyvor 13 Jahren

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

pekkvor 13 Jahren

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

songgaovor 13 Jahren

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

btiplingvor 13 Jahren

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

ciupicrivor 13 Jahren

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/

benatkinvor 13 Jahren

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...

codysvor 13 Jahren

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?

benatkinvor 13 Jahren

No, I'm saying that it precludes it from being an obvious choice for a standard, since implementing that type of protocol isn't simple and there are editor writers who don't want to integrate LGPL code.

qu4z-2vor 13 Jahren

Surely if it's LGPL you can just link against it, no?

[deleted]vor 13 Jahren

telvor 13 Jahren

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

andylvor 13 Jahren

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