Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > What about collaborative editing?  That is, multiple people
  > simultaneously editing a document over the internet.

It would be good to do that in a truly usable way.

Emacs has had the feature of running multiple terminals at once for
over 20 years, but there are bad problems in it.  To do it right, to
has to have a thread for each terminal, and they have to be able to
get in and out of the minibuffer separately.

The other way to do this is to have separate Emacs processes that
communicate with each other.  We would need to use modification hooks
to take note of changes and transmit them to the other Emacses.

Or perhaps one Emacs could be the "server", and the others act as clients,
maintaining mirrors of the document.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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