Topic summary
Gobby

Collaborative real-time text editor GobbyGobby 0.4.0Original authorArmin BurgmeierDeveloper0x539 dev groupStable release0.6.0 / January 21, 2021; 5 years ago (2021-01-21) Written inC++, C.Operating systemUnix, WindowsTypeText editorLicenseGNU GPLv2+Websitegobby.0x539.deRepositorygithub.com/gobby/gobby Gobby is a free software collaborative real-time editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. (It runs on Mac OS X using Apple's X11.app.) 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 GUI widgets. Description Gobby features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-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 Unicode-aware, provides syntax highlighting 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 collaborative