WingedPanther

Recently, in the course of doing some Beta-reading with my wife of some fanfiction stories, it became apparent that it would be really helpful if we could each add our comments at the same time, and independently.

Google Wave was the obvious tool for this. Unfortunately, loading it on dialup is a bit ridiculous. OK, it's a LOT ridiculous. Nice software, but the bloat is almost impossible to deal with.

After a little bit of research, I next tried AbiWord. It's a nice, full-featured text editor and would have been ideal. Unfortunately, the repositories on our respective computers resulted in me having version 2.6.6, and her having 2.8.1. The collaboration functions seem to be incompatible between the two versions.

Next, we tried gobby. Gobby is not a great editor for working on literature. It did the job, and was successful, but also struck me as great idea for working on source code. Since Gobby has syntax highlighting for various programming languages, it's got a lot of potential to allow quick coding and correction.

Which all makes me wonder, has anyone else done collaborative coding with tools like this?