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Is there anything like Hydra for Linux yet? Perhaps something that uses Jabber? A local Linux User Group is electing folks to different positions, and one of those is “Scribe”. To me, the idea just seems so 20th century….
Original article: Linux Hydra Work-Alike?
There is something like this in development. Alexander Klimetschek is creating a plugin to the Java-based Text-Editor Jedit [1], which will you enable to keep files in synch while a group of people is working on it. See his post to the jedit-users-mailinglist [2].
This plugin will use IRC.
[1] http://www.jedit.org/
[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jedit-users&m=105036058211166&w=2
Alexander Klimetschek has created a distributed collaborative text editor (or distributed pair-programming tool) that works as a jEdit plugin and is thus platform-independent. If you know Hydra or SubEthaEdit, you almost know what it is about...Read more here
The project, DocSynch, is now in 1.0 beta for jEdit, and future plans include Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and maybe VIM.
See http://docsynch.sourceforge.net/
Posted by: John Abbe on April 14, 2004 10:18 AMAlthough real-time editing is planned, as of this writing users manually lock the page while they are editing.
Also, notice that you have to use their custom IRC plug-in for jEdit.
Posted by: John Abbe on April 14, 2004 10:36 AM