Last week
Simon Phipps and I were working on
something that had to be done by the end of that day, and he pinged
me “Got
SubEthaEdit?”. I do,
and I’ve used it occasionally when sitting around a table with some people,
but he said “Point it at my server.”
I hadn’t realized how smoothly this worked across the Internet, but we both
got our hands on the document at the same time (he in Southampton, I in
Vancouver) and we worked out the problems and got the job done, no fuss no
muss. Is there anything similar on Windows or Linux/Unix, or even better
cross-platform? Because it’s pretty serious magic.
[Update:
Robert Chassell writes to say
that Emacs has been able to do this for years, although the functions having
names like talk-connect and make-frame-on-display
has probably not helped the uptake.]
[Hsui-Fan Wang and one other person whose email I lost wrote to point out
MoonEdit].
