Gobby is a

free software Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed open-source license, under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, distribut ...

collaborative real-time editor A collaborative real-time editor is a type of collaborative software or web application which enables real-time collaborative editing, simultaneous editing, or live editing of the same digital document, computer file or cloud-stored data – s ...

available on Windows and

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platforms. (It runs on

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using Apple's X11.app.) It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0x539 dev group (the

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value 0x539 is equal to 1337 in

decimal The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers (''decimal fractions'') of th ...

). Gobby uses

GTK+ GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free software cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and proprietary s ...

for its

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Description

Gobby features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an

IRC IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called '' channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat ...

-like chat for communication out of band. Users can choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully

Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...

-aware, provides

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for most programming languages, and has basic

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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). The collaborative editing protocol is named Obby, and there are other implementations that use this protocol (e.g. Rudel, a plugin for

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). Gobby 0.5 replaces Sobby with a new server called infinoted. Version 0.4.0 featured fully encrypted connections and further usability enhancements. Users have commented versions prior to 0.5.0 had some issues. Versions numbered 0.4.9x are preview releases for version 0.5.0. The most noticeable improvement is

undo Undo is an interaction technique which is implemented in many computer programs. It erases the last change done to the document, reverting it to an older state. In some more advanced programs, such as graphic processing, undo will negate the las ...

support, using the adOPTed algorithm for concurrency control.

Criticisms

While offering Unicode support it has been suggested the product is suitable for producing plaintext rather than formatted documents.

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Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor
on

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{{Use dmy dates, date=April 2020 Free groupware Collaborative real-time editors Free text editors Text editors that use GTK Software using the GNU General Public License Free software programmed in C++

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