Gobby

Gobby is a text editor which supports the idea of collaborative writing. Thus, it is possible for multiple persons ( virtual presence ) work on the same document simultaneously. Gobby is free software and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. There are (with installed X server ) supports all Unix- Linux operating systems, Windows and Mac OS X. Basically needed Gobby the GIMP Toolkit, in order to operate.

Gobby supports Unicode and raises a text color depending on its type, a syntax highlighting out.

In the current version of Gobby based on the client -server architecture principle. This makes it possible to edit multiple documents in one session. In addition, individual documents can be synchronized with the individual participants. To achieve a certain level of security, the individual sessions can be protected by a password. The idea of ​​the client-server architecture concept is softened by a multicast DNS support. It is also possible to participate in a pseudo peer-to- peer fashion in a meeting. This has the advantage that you do not need to know the address (domain or IP address ) of the server to join a session.

The communication between the session participants will be held in the style of an IRC chat. In order to distinguish the changes of the individual participants, they can choose a specific color, which is then used to highlight the text to change color of the participant.

Negative to mention is that ( in the 0.4- series before 0.4.9x ) not "Undo " existing function. Accidentally deleted text is thus permanently deleted.

The program allows encrypted connections via GnuTLS. It is also a likewise free server version ( called Sobby ) available.