Re: Question collaborative editing.

[Pankaj Jangid]

On Fri, Oct 02 2020, Yuri Khan wrote:

>> >An example use-case might be:
>> >
>> >user1:
>> >1. C-x C-f (find-file)
>> >2. M-x enable-collaboration ; this generates a session-key
>> >3. Share session key with collaborators via chat/email
>> >
>> >user2: (via Tramp)
>> >1. C-x C-f /collab:session-key@ip-address:filename <RET>
>> >
>> >Users get cursors with different colours.
>> >
>> >The advantage of using Tramp is that users can always use Ad-hoc
>> >multi-hops.
>> >
>> Yes, this is exactly my expected workflow more or less. It is p2p as I
>> have mentioned before I would prefer it to be. The tramp integration is
>> something way far from my capabilities, but in general that's the
>> idea ;).
>
> Do not overlook the use case of collaborating on a project containing
> multiple files. (I can already see it is a whole other can of worms.)

I thought about this while writing the above use-case. Hence used the
generic term /session-key/. A session can use the project infrastructure
to list and expose files. See the last part in the above Tramp
call. Filename can be specified there.