Re: Question collaborative editing.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Qiantan
>  Hong <qhong@mit.edu>,  fmfs@posteo.net,  npostavs@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  kfogel@red-bean.com,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:30:53 +0200
> 
> I don't want to be the grinch, but pls remember what Tramp is: a library
> for alternative implementations of file operations. I don't see yet how
> /collab:session-key@ip-address:filename fits into the game, but maybe it
> needs more details to understand. For example, which file operations
> shall be treated.
> 
> Furthermore, I also don't understand what needs to be done on the remote
> side wrt collaboration. A remote file in Emacs is still a file,
> connected to a buffer. All primitive file operations can be applied on
> this.

I think Michael is right: Tramp and collaborative editing are
orthogonal features.  Collaborative editing is about special handling
of changes to buffer text, and Tramp has nothing to say about that,
AFAIK.