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Writing Fiction Using SubEthaEdit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amusing-stuff dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "The recent blizzard on the East Coast makes for some great collaborative creativity opportunities of various sorts, including group fiction writing using SubEthaEdit. Did you know you can write fiction about collaborative fiction writing using collaborative fiction writing tools? We didn't either." Man, the best fiction I've ever produced is some of the project plans created using SubEtha.

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  1. For those who don't know... by diamondsw · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...this is SubEthaEdit. It's a rendezvous and network-aware text editor designed for collaborative coding that seems to be finding more use. Meanwhile, it's also just a damn nice text editor for general use, and is free (yes, I know that TextWrangler is also free now).

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  2. IT JUST WORKS™ by jdwest · · Score: 4, Informative

    On a whim, I installed SubEthaEdit for a recent collaborative project for use on a P'book and a friend's iBook. Both of us were editing (wirelessly) the same document within five minutes -- w/o reading a line from TFM . Nothing scientific to back it up, but we agreed that it saved us a good amount of total project time (and it completely changed our workflow on all projects from that time forward).

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  3. Re:what about wiki? by revscat · · Score: 4, Informative

    While Wiki is designed for collaboration, it doesn't allow simulatenous changes that are immediately visible to all collaborators. If you and I were working on a document in SubEthaEdit you would see any changes I make as I make them, and I yours.

    All that and syntax highlighting, too. It's basically the difference between a text editor you run yourself vs. typing a message into Slashdot.