Gobby is a

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available on Windows and

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platforms. (It runs on

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using Apple's

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.) It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0x539 dev group (the hexadecimal value 0x539 is equal to 1337 in decimal). Gobby uses GTK+ for its

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Description

Gobby features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an

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-like chat for communication out of band. Users can choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully

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-aware, provides

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for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf support. A dedicated server called Sobby is also provided, together with a script which could format saved sessions for the web (e.g. to provide logs of meetings with a collaboratively prepared transcript). The collaborative editing protocol is named Obby, and there are other implementations that use this protocol (e.g. Rudel, a plugin for

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). Gobby 0.5 replaces Sobby with a new server called infinoted. Version 0.4.0 featured fully encrypted connections and further usability enhancements. Users have commented versions prior to 0.5.0 had some issues. Versions numbered 0.4.9x are preview releases for version 0.5.0. The most noticeable improvement is undo support, using the adOPTed algorithm for concurrency control.

Criticisms

While offering Unicode support it has been suggested the product is suitable for producing plaintext rather than formatted documents.

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Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor
on Debian {{Use dmy dates, date=April 2020 Free groupware Collaborative real-time editors Free text editors Text editors that use GTK

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