Re: Privacy Respecting Replacement for facebook groups

[Jean Louis]

* Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> [2020-10-05 18:37]:
> Those are nice references Jim, thank you.
> 
> Let us also mention that basic collaboration on any file need not be
> in real time, it is very simple to send the file to collaborator, for
> review and revisions, and to send it back to other collaborator for
> review and revisions.
> 
> That need no server, or revision system, it just needs way of
> transmitting files over network, such as email, chat, or some FTP or
> cloud storage, it would work even by sending USB stick by postal mail.
> 
> Right now I cannot imagine the use case where two people would be
> writing on the same file in the real-time.

And while we are speaking, on emacs-devel mailing list we found
Qiantan Hong, who made Emacs Lisp to make real time simultaneous
editing, and we are testing it now.

But I still cannot find good reason to make it "simultaneous"
editing. Maybe for correcting students or correcting language,
interpunction, inspection, really hard to think. It is not logical and
not practical to have two separate minds far apart from each other
working on the text in same time. I wish to find more practical use cases.