Collaborative real-time editor

A collaborative real-time editor is a kind of text editor that allows simultaneous editing of the same text by different participants using different computers.

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Software that was designed for collaborative real-time editing of text

• Amy Editor is an collammers, supporting syntax highlighting, operates through a web browser. The software is open source.
• SubEthaEdit (Mac OS X)
• ACE (Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) is a free and easy-to-use collaborative text editor.
• Gobby (Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X) is a free software, open source project. It is cross-platform (though Mac version requires X-windows and is not trivial to get working - v.0.2.0 as at 08Oct2005). First released in June 2005.
• MoonEdit (Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD) is free for non-commercial use, it allows basic collaborative editing
• Groove Networks contains a collaborative editing module.
• Chalks is a cross platform, free software, open source project currently in pre-alpha phase.
• Yarrr (☠) allows real time collaborative web-based editing and whiteboarding as a MediaWiki extension.
• oxyd [1] is a open-source web based collaborative editor in development as a Summer of Code [2] project.
• Marratech [3] is commercial software with a whiteboard function.
• LeoN, as described by its own site, is "a plugin for Leo to enable collaborative editing over the network."
• SIGSoft Editor is the early stages of a student-developed collaborative editor. (No working version as of January '06.)
• LivePad, "a near real-time web-based collaborative editor for Mozilla and its derivatives, like Mozilla Firefox."
• WriteURL, a free real-time collaborative editor that requires no registration. It uses web sockets, and node.js on the server.

Web browser based collaborative real-time editing of documents

• JotSpot Live [4]
• SynchroEdit web-based application, currently in alpha release
• Collabedit real-time source code editor
• Squadreal-time source code editor
• beWeeVee co-operative editor based on Microsoft Silverlight
• Etherpad open source extremely fast and lightweight collaborative editor
• Firepad open source collaborative code / rich-text editor

Other software that allows collaborative real-time editing

• GNU Emacs provides basic collaborative editing support under the X Window System, using the "make-frame-on-display" command.
• GNU Screen allows multiple users to share one console screen, but they have to share a single cursor.
• DocSynch [5] is a simple collaborative editing protocol using Internet Relay Chat. Only one author can write at a given time.

Software that is collaborative but not real time

• Writeboard [6] This is just web based version control, not real time at all
• Writely [7] is a web browser based collaborative editor, syncs are 'every few seconds' rather than real time
• OpenEffort.com - free online collaboration platform for creating and publishing content.

External links

• community-wiki: collaborative editor is a node page to coordinate the developement of collaborative editors.
• wikipedia clone of this list

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