Gobby
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 Gobby 0.4.0 (development version) |
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| Developed by | 0x539 dev group |
| Latest release | 0.4.5 / August 19, 2007 |
| OS | Unix, Windows |
| Genre | Text editor |
| License | GPL |
| Website | gobby.0x539.de |
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.
It 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. Users could 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 collaboratively prepared transcript).
Version 0.4.0 featured fully encrypted connections and further usability enhancements.
[edit] See also
For Mac OS X, see also SubEthaEdit, a similar tool that also makes use of ZeroConf networking for simultaneous multi-person editing of text-based files.
