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Collaborative text editing on Windows

November 21, 2006 by in Geeky,Tech with 5 Comments

Collaborative text editing, essential for group projects where sharing and editing code is a necessity. Sadly, up until now, Windows users were left out of the fun of collaborative test editing. Fortunately, Windows users can take ‘e – The Collaborative Text Editor’ out for a spin. The Windows (beta) application allows users to share and edit in real time with other ‘e’ users over a local network including the option for version control. Not too shabby as I have often wondered where and when the Windows equivalent of SubEthaEdit would be developed.

Sadly, there are no current desktop applications solutions which will allow both Windows and OS X users to edit and share text files. For now, cross-editing on both operating systems will be limited to web based services like Google Docs.


  • http://benpoole.com Ben Poole

    Actually, I believe MoonEdit was first in this space on Windows (works on some UNIX variants too):

    http://moonedit.com

  • http://rvgl.tonycai.com/blog/ j2

    Yeah, Moonedit is awesome. Haven’t tried this ‘e thing, though.

  • Injecter

    If it works on UNIX there shouldnt be much of a problem porting it to OS X (with X11 may be) … So that would be the editor for everybody (including linux)?

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek

    Thanks for the tip about MoonEdit. Something worth bookmarking indeed.

  • http://www.recompiled.org/ Joe Eversole

    Collaborative editing isn’t as impressive as Textmate bundle compatibility. I think I actually gasped out loud when I read about e on the Textmate blog today. Work is Windows (obviously), and I

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