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Interview with SubEthaEdit Developer

Posted by pudge on from the collaboration-is-for-mortals dept.

WaxPoetic writes "There is a fun interview with the developers of SubEthaEdit, the only collaborative editor for Mac OS X. Topics covered include Apple slowing developing, BEEP, why they kept a free version, being a German Mac user, hopes for the Tiger release, and their hatred of metal interfaces."

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  1. subethaedit style editors by OmniVector · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't know, SubEthaEdit is a fantastic text editor for the mac. It's main benefit is the ability to do live text edit collaboration with many other users, and the ability to find these users with rendezvous (zero-setup networking). The program has a great niche in things like notetaking. I and my group members for a particular human interface class studied it in greater detail.

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  2. for different operating systems... by 1isp_hax0r · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the FAQ:

    Any chance of a *nix or Windows version?
    We love developing macintosh applications with Cocoa and are determined to improve SubEthaEdit on that platform. We currently have neither resources nor experience to port our products to other platforms.

    While I use a mac, most of my development is using unix editors like emacs or vim. As a unix developer you do not have to wait for these guys to port to *nix. You already have this functionality!
    Just install screen. First user starts screen with an editor inside. Make a new screen console and change the permission of the personal screen socket. Let other users log in and hook into your screen using
    screen -x
    Done! Oh, for chat, use irc :) Or communicate via comments like real geeks do!
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    1. Re:for different operating systems... by Durin_Deathless · · Score: 5, Informative

      That means everyone shares an insertion point, which isn't how SEE works. Everyone has a distinct insertion point.

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  3. Re:Really good program by daeley · · Score: 3, Informative
    I did have to write a python script that would work like bbedit's command line tool (with a few of the same options, such as -c), but once that was taken care of I started using it as my primary text editor.

    A shortcut for that if you don't mind simple capabilities would be to add an alias to your .bash_profile, a la:
    alias see='open -a SubEthaEdit'
    Then you can open/edit a file thusly:
    see foo.html
    which will open the file in SubEthaEdit for editing.
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  4. Re:Really good program by Goo.cc · · Score: 3, Informative

    "I did have to write a python script that would work like bbedit's command line tool"

    I e-mailed the creators of SubEthaEdit about this, as I would like to use it was an editor for Mutt, and they told me that a command line tool for SubEthaEdit is in the works.

  5. More options... SubEthaEdit isn't the only one. by ShallowThroat · · Score: 3, Informative

    there is also iStorm", which uses rendezvous and can do more than just text/code. it's worth a look if you are in the market for that kinda thing.

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  6. The ONLY collobaritve editor? by AusG4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Before anyone jumps to suggest that Hydra pre-dated this as the first collaborative text editor, I should point out that Hydra became SubEthaEdit, so they are in fact one in the same. Hydra is a better name, but I digress.

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