Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Continuation of Doug's Colloquium
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, stephen white wrote: (01)
> In a nutshell, I would like to program a text editor which has live
> code running on highlighted regions. This code would interface to CVS
> for versioning and show live changes like IRC. So while you're editing
> the document, you can see other people's cursors moving around and they
> can enter comments, questions and proposed changes which you can then
> CVS merge into your own document or ignore.
>
> I would then like to put a community rating system on top so changes
> can work through the regular channels and trickle upwards to the main
> release based on who and how many people think it's a good idea. The
> live regions can run different kinds of code, so a section of a
> document could be marked for chat, another section could be a Wiki,
> another section could be a RSS feed, etc. I understand Emacs implements
> some of this already, though on a buffer by buffer basis. (02)
Not exactly the same thing, but you may want to look at the
design documents for KnownSpace Symphony, may give you some
ideas: (03)
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~rawlins/symphony/symphony.html (04)
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