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Hydra: Rendezvous-Enabled Text Editing
Tokerat writes "It's incredible what some people dream up. A recent post on MacSlash brought this little gem to my attention, and I have a feeling some of you fellow /.ers will be screaming to get your hands on this: Hydra is a Rendezvous-enabled text editor, which allows several people to edit a text document at the same time. Imagine doing some extreme programming with this, with one person writing code and another following the first and correcting their mistakes & making optimizations simultaneously? It already works with Apple's Project Builder, supports syntax coloring, and the ability to manage access on a per-document basis. Future improvements will include support for RTF and much tighter integration with Project Builder. It looks to me like these guys are really on to something here."
Now everyone can know the fun of multiple personality disorder!
Shut up jerk! ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
No, it's really a good ^H^H^H^H crappy idea!
Quit doing that! Ack!
You mean a freedomword.
Future improvements will include support for RTF
Someone left off the "M" at the end.
Vote for global prefs bug
"NO! the for loop starts at 1, not 0!"
"@$%!!!! Steve would roll in his grave!"
"Loudest fart wins..."
*everyone in the building dies*
Twice the errors, half the time and everybody can say "someone else must have done that"! LOL
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
emacs/xemacs have been able to do it, but that's like saying "it's possible to shove your leg down someone's throat."
It may be true, but it's not something you want to do normally.
What's worse than a buzzword? a buzzword in French.
Call it Zeroconf then...
is there anything on this planet that has half the fancy features of emacs? I mean really... what other editor has a psychiatrist built in?
mmmmmm, M-x doctor
woof!
since vi doesn't have it!
More to the point, what other editor *needs* a psychiatrist feature? Ok, maybe Word, but not if you can disable the "damned paperclip."
Geek1: *Types some code*
Geek2: *Makes a few changes*
Geek1: 'wtf you doing??!!!'
Geek2: 'ure code is shiat, my variables pwn'
Geek1: 'stfu steve!' *deletes other geeks function*
Geek2: 'ben you bastard that took me 15mins to write!!!'
Geek3: *types 'PWN j00 BASE!!!!' 15 times*
You need to be able to smell the other person's farts
That is the most convincing argument against XP I've yet heard.
Sorry, that was my first thought...
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
Ok, so you pop an Xemacs frame up on my x server. What prevents me from doing 'esc-! cat ~/.ssh/*', or something more nefarious?
I wish I had a nickle every time someone said "emacs can do that."
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2B1ASK1
Can you imagine the endless possibilities of fun in this? Just imagine two developers disagreeing about a piece of text, then fighting for minutes, one guy typing frenetically to outperform the other guy's continuous backspacing :)
That's a feature!
Welp, as the saying goes. Emacs would be the perfect tool for everything if someone would just design a decent text editor for it.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
...we used to do the same thing when they had the IBM PCjr demo machines at K-Mart. We'd grab an extra wireless keyboard and stand behind the people using the machine and "correct" their typing, much to their consternation.
Yes, shot. That seems an appropriate level of punishment. Not at all exaggerated. Someone get the shotgun.
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RumorsDaily
Suddenly, my iChat windows are full of "Message from Llama69: Hi! I'm from Hong Kong! What are you wearing?"
The whole point of Rendezvous is to support creating small short-lived networks. Why would you want a global presence for such a thing?
Clear, Dark Skies
I wish I had a nickle every time someone said "emacs can do that."
You mean you don't know about M-x emacs-superiority-delusions-xfer-money? It's been in there for at least three months now.
No, your admin should be shot for deciding to use such a horribly insecure system as NFS.
bleagh.
i don't read slashdot anymore.