Gobby

Gobby
	Gobby 0.4.0 (stable version)
Original author(s)	Armin Burgmeier
Developer(s)	0x539 dev group
Stable release	0.4.12 / December 19, 2009
Preview release	0.4.93 / December 20, 2009
Repository	github.com/gobby/gobby ;
Written in	C++, C.
Operating system	Unix, Windows
Type	Text editor
License	GPLv2+
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.^[3]

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 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^[4].

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.^[5]

Versions numbered 0.4.9x are preview releases for version 0.5.0. The most noticeable improvement is that it supports Undo^[6], using the adOPTed algorithm for concurrency control^[7].

References

^ http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/#DevelopmentArea, Retrieved on 2009-11-28.
^ http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/browser/COPYING, Retrieved on 2009-11-28.
^ 2005-06-07: Gobby 0.1.1 released, Retrieved on 2009-11-28.
^ 2005-07-30: Release day - gobby-0.2.0, obby-0.2.0, net6-1.1.0, Retrieved on 2009-11-28
^ 2006-04-11: First release candidate of the 0.4.x series, Retrieved on 2009-11-28.
^ 2008-10-18: Gobby 0.4.90 released, Retrieved on 2009-12-21.
^ Infinote Protocol Specification: Concurrency Control, Retrieved on 2009-12-21.

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