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Re: Emacs + Etherpad compatibility?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Emacs + Etherpad compatibility? |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:34:57 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> The protocol used by Etherpad is EasySync -- see docs here:
>
> https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/develop/doc/easysync/easysync-notes.pdf
>
> https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/develop/doc/easysync/easysync-full-description.pdf
These docs don't seem quite sufficient to implement a client, but it
looks like it shouldn't be hard to implement it, indeed.
> Personally, that's where I'd start if I had time to work on this. It would
> give us both real-time collaborative editing for Emacs, *and* Emacs users
> being able to real-time collaborate with non-Emacs users on the same
> document! This would be an enormous win for Emacs.
That'd be sweet, yes,
Stefan