Web site: gobby.github.io
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: Linux, Windows, Unix-like
License: GNU GPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia: Gobby
First release: 2005
Gobby – a free collaborative editor which provides the possibility to edit files simultaneously with other users over a network. The platforms on which you could use Gobby are so far Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like ones. Developed with the GTK+ toolkit it integrates nicely into the GNOME desktop environment if you want it to.
Features:
– Realtime collaboration through encrypted connections (including PFS)
– Each user has its own colour to be identified by others
– Local group Undo
– Group chat
– Shows cursors and selections of remote users
– Sidebar with all the others having joined the session
– Syntax highlighting, auto indentation, configurable tab width
– Multiple documents in one session
– Zeroconf support (optional)
– Unicode support
– Internationalisation
– Highly configurable dedicated server
– Sophisticated Access Control Lists (ACLs)
– Cross-platform: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, other flavours of Unix
– Free software, licenced under the terms of the ISC license
