Peer to Peer Collaborative text editor for windows

Question

I know there are many collaborative text editors. But everything I have seen (like moonedit, Gobby) need a server installation.

I need a simple p2p text editor which I can send it to my friend and he just connects to my IP to start editing. (NTE -- For some reason network text editor is not working for me)

Answer 1

Gobby is a free collaborative text editor and it runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Although I'm not here to point out your question, what exactly makes a server installation a bad thing? In Gobby the server comes with the client, and all you have to do is to run it on a machine before starting Gobby itself.

Answer 2

Does it really have to be p2p? You could consider a browser-based solution hosted by a third party, like Etherpad or Google Docs.

Answer 3

I believe you are really looking for the Wikipedia entry on collaborative editors:

To summarize, the standalone-application, collaborative editors available on Windows that you haven't yet mentioned are Abiword, ACE, CoWord, Plutext, and UNA. On that page is also a list of browser-based collaborative editors and other (non-text) collaborative editors.

(Edit: I don't know which, if any, of the above support direct p2p-type connections, but the wikipedia page links to the web page for each editor)

Answer 4

Google docs can do the job, I think. Just create a new document and invite them to colaborate.

Answer 5

Use Dropbox for sharing and synchronising files right from your desktop (Win, Mac and Linux).

Then you can use any editor you like :-)

Answer 6

use screen

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-10sysadtips/#T3

Answer 7

Notepad++ has a collaborative plugin which we have tried at work. UNA and Etherpad were other favorites. We really liked Notepad++ since it's the editor of choice since we switch between ruby,.net and java and also it was just pretty much "connect to ip and start working" kinda deal.

Plugin name: NppDocShare Download link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189927&package_id=258483

Answer 8

http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/bespin/ it's got all the bells and whistles!

Answer 9

If you can run an X client and server using cygwin you can open an emacs frame on more than one server I think.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Multiple-Displays.html for details

this may, however, unacceptably stretch the definition of "simple"

Answer 10

AbiWord has real-time peer to peer collaboration. It is cross platform and supports several connection methods.

Once you install AbiWord (there's a PortableApps version too), then install the "Tools" plugins to get the collaborative editor capabilities.

AbiWord Main Site: http://www.abisource.com/download/

AbiWord Tools Plugins: http://www.abisource.com/download/

Answer 11

Have a look at http://www.nextiteration.de/instantreview/ - a collaborative coding extension for Visual Studio, based on P2P

Answer 12

You can try also moonedit, the project seems to be abandoned, but it works ok.

Answer 13

http://collabedit.com

Web based, with syntax highlighting, you don't even need an account.