Gobby - let's do it together

What is Gobby?

Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple open source documents for one session and multi-user chat.
It can work in Windows, Mac OSX, Linux. The editor allows multiple users to simultaneously edit the same document.
With Gobby, you can quickly discuss or edit together any textual material (for example, as we do;)).

How to install?

For Linux users, everything is quite simple: they can install Gobby directly from the repositories of their operating systems, as we did.

Debian / Ubuntu users install it like this:
sudo apt-get install gobby

To install on other platforms, you can download and use the installation instructions on the official website, and it should not cause you any problems.
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Gobby works on a client-server system: one of the users becomes a server, the rest connect to it, knowing its IP address. If for some reason no one who wants to work at Gobby has a dedicated IP address, you can use Gobby in conjunction with Hamachi .

Opportunities

• Real-time interaction using data encryption
• Each user has his own individual color, which distinguishes its text from the text of other participants.
• The editor supports syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages.
• Very convenient IRC-like chat for communication with your partners.
• Password session protection
• Many open documents in one session
• Drag'n'drop Document Mode
• On-call document synchronization
• Zeroconf support
• Unicode support
• Gobby is a cross-platform project. Works on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems.
• Gobby - free software licensed under the GPL 2

The program interface and work with it

All images are clickable.

Article Discussion

List of documents and users

Built-in chat

List of available syntax highlighting

Editing a document

And why all this?

Examples of the use of Gobby can be seen mass.

My partner is a proofreader

Two people together edit the article so that the second follows what the first one writes. Thus, it is likely that the “corrector” will find the majority of the mistakes made and will help to correct them. For example, this article was written in Gobby and we had the opportunity to correct a partner.

We document and program

Another case is when we are divided into a programmer and one who will document all the code. You can see an example of such interaction in the screenshots above.

Learning together

A useful experience of teaching programming languages ​​with friends is associated with Gobby: we gathered in this wonderful client and wrote classes, functions, commented, discussed about building models, and sometimes even came up with interesting solutions. We believe that Gobby is a good medium for quickly learning a specific programming language with the help of a partner (in a student-teacher model), since using it makes it easier to write code samples and easier to talk.

Analogs

ACE is a similar Gobby text editor with support for standard features such as copying and pasting text, loading and saving documents.
CoWord is an extension to Microsoft Word that allows multiple users to simultaneously edit the same document.

Resources

Official site of the project
Wikipedia description
Multiplayer real-time editors

Thank you so much S2nek , who together with me compiled an article in Gobby .