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Re: Open source collaborative text editors

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Post by williamstein »

juretriglav wrote: post #3
therobot24 wrote: post #2

i feel like overleaf/sharelatex should be somewhere in this article

I know the folks at Overleaf and they're awesome! However, their editor is not open source. But yes, ShareLaTex probably needs a spot on there, though I haven't looked at it in a long while and it seems to be pretty dormant in terms of development: https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex/graphs/contributors Had no idea it had real-time collaboration... Wonder how it's done. Digging in now... :) If you're using it, i…

"seems to be pretty dormant in terms of development" -- that's because Overleaf purchased ShareLaTeX. https://www.overleaf.com/blog/518-exciting-news-sharelatex-i...

Also, you might be unaware of CoCalc, which is open source https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc. CoCalc supports collaborative editing of many structured documents, including Jupyter notebooks, but not rich text at present.

Re: Open source collaborative text editors

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Post by alalonde »

Indeed, the space is growing quickly. I run a company that provides a backend for real-time collaboration, so we necessarily stay on top of what's out there. There's a reason the server-side tech tends be paid: it is extraordinarily difficult to provide guaranteed eventual consistency of data at low latency. The CKEditor guys (and us, for that matter) have put YEARS of development effort into their solutions.

We're working on both offline mode and a generic rich-text data model with support for the major editors.

If anyone's interested, I'd happily do some Q and A here.

Re: Open source collaborative text editors

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Post by choward »

im_down_w_otp wrote: post #6

I would be very appreciative if Google made a stripped down version of Google Docs for plaintext editing. There are a bunch of basic integration features that would also be fantastic, but if the product was literally just Google Docs, minus the WYSIWYG bits, and all plaintext w/ maybe some syntax highlighting thrown in, I'd be super happy.

> Google Docs, minus the WYSIWYG bits, and all plaintext w/ maybe some syntax highlighting thrown in

And the feature creep begins. Eventually you'll be asking for a full blown IDE.

Re: Open source collaborative text editors

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Post by ma2rten »

choward wrote: post #16
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #6

I would be very appreciative if Google made a stripped down version of Google Docs for plaintext editing. There are a bunch of basic integration features that would also be fantastic, but if the product was literally just Google Docs, minus the WYSIWYG bits, and all plaintext w/ maybe some syntax highlighting thrown in, I'd be super happy.

> Google Docs, minus the WYSIWYG bits, and all plaintext w/ maybe some syntax highlighting thrown in And the feature creep begins. Eventually you'll be asking for a full blown IDE.

Google has actually already has an internal cloud-based IDE.

Re: Open source collaborative text editors

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Post by blotter_paper »

alalonde wrote: post #13

Indeed, the space is growing quickly. I run a company that provides a backend for real-time collaboration, so we necessarily stay on top of what's out there. There's a reason the server-side tech tends be paid: it is extraordinarily difficult to provide guaranteed eventual consistency of data at low latency. The CKEditor guys (and us, for that matter) have put YEARS of development effort into their solutions. We're w…

I appreciate that you mentioned a competitor without shamelessly plugging your own product, but out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, what editor do you work on?
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