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From: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: multi-user editors???
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Date: 24 Apr 89 22:31:55 GMT
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In article <8531@xanth.cs.odu.edu> lazarus@cs.odu.edu (Keith E. Lazarus) writes:

>Do any of y'all know of any full-screen editors that support multiple 
>users editing a single file at one time???  
>
>So far as I know emacs doesn't support this and for some reason, I doubt that
>vi, or ed do either  :-)  ........

Now that's an interesting idea...  we'll soon be seeing demacs (the editor
daemon).  Actually I have seen a multiuser editor in a boxed system (a
cable TV channel controller/character generator).  It was page based so more
than one person could edit different pages in the same file.

I wonder if there's any theory for making an editor which is truely
multiprocessed- (I.E. no editor daemon).