Re: Emacs + Etherpad compatibility?

[Stefan Monnier]

> The protocol used by Etherpad is EasySync -- see docs here:
>
> https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/develop/doc/easysync/easysync-notes.pdf
>
> https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/develop/doc/easysync/easysync-full-description.pdf

These docs don't seem quite sufficient to implement a client, but it
looks like it shouldn't be hard to implement it, indeed.

> Personally, that's where I'd start if I had time to work on this.  It would
> give us both real-time collaborative editing for Emacs, *and* Emacs users
> being able to real-time collaborate with non-Emacs users on the same
> document!  This would be an enormous win for Emacs.

That'd be sweet, yes,


        Stefan