Real-time collaborative editing

Question

I work with another coder most of the time on projects and would love an application that lets us work on the same file and see the other person's edits in real-time. He uses OSX and I'm on Vista.

I am wondering if there are any server-side applications that can do this, that I could put on my server, and would be accessible through a browser - somewhat like bespin from Mozilla, but on my own server.

Either that or a light weight alternative to Eclipse, such as Gobby (which crashes on my machine and is apparently notorious to get working on Vista) or MoonEdit (which doesn't do code-highlighting etc).

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Have you thought of using a shared desktop instead of shared editing (if you see what I mean)? A remote desktop where either of you can mouse/type (preferably combined with sound so you can talk about who's got control :) should work reasonably.

I don't know of any collaborative editing tools for code - Google Docs works for documents, but not for code. (And you don't get to see the updates immediately - it's not quite as interactive as Wave.) Disclaimer: I work for Google so of course I'm going to include Google applications in this sort of thing :)

Answer 2

Why you cannot use Bespin? It's an open-source project, and you can install it on your server. You can also try Etherpad, it's a really great tool for collaborative editing.

Answer 3

I was just searching for the same thing and found this: http://wiki.eclipse.org/DocShare_Plugin