Re: [O] colorg: Some news!

[Daimrod]

François Pinard <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi to all my Org friends.

Hi,

> ColOrg is a project about real-time collaborative editing of Org files.
> Here are some news about its progress, after a second push this
> weekend.  It is not usable yet, but a few more steps have been taken.  A
> few more ropes are needed to tie it up all together, but not much.
>
> Some details follow.
>
> The ColOrg client (on the Emacs side) acquired code for processing all
> commands coming from a ColOrg server.  This includes per-collaborator
> colorization of recently inserted text, and notification windows for
> transient diagnostics.  To be usable, the client still misses the
> association between local buffers and remote resource numbers, so
> modifications go where they were meant.  The client should also ask the
> server to build completions for existing users or resources.
>
> The ColOrg server (on the Python side) requires more work.  The protocol
> has been solidified a bit, but needs some love in the area of returned
> values.  The problem of proper command rewriting is now better analyzed,
> it looks simpler, but still has to be programmed.  I decided for a naive
> approach, and by postponed optimization issues, all dark corners have
> been lit, none remain so far that I know.
>
> The Wiki also got some more text.  See https://github.com/pinard/ColOrg.

That's a really cool project! Do you plan to keep the server in Python?
Or do you think it would be possible to make this in Emacs Lisp only
with Elnode[1] for the server-side?

> François

[1] http://elnode.org/
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Daimrod/Greg

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