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Gobby

Gobby 0.4.0 (stable version)

Original author(s) Armin Burgmeier

Developer(s) 0x539 dev group

Stable release 0.4.94 / March 28, 2011; 10 months ago (2011-03-28)

Written in C++, C.^[1]

Operating system Unix, Windows

Type Text editor

License GPLv2+^[2]

Website gobby.0x539.de

Gobby is a free software collaborative real-time editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. (It runs on Mac OS X using Apple's X11.app.) It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0x539 dev group.^[3]

It features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-like chat for communication. Users can choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully Unicode-aware, provides syntax highlighting for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf support.^[4]

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).

Gobby also has realtime chat built-in.

Version 0.4.0 featured fully encrypted connections and further usability enhancements.^[5]

Versions numbered 0.4.9x are preview releases for version 0.5.0. The most noticeable improvement is that it supports Undo,^[6] using the adOPTed algorithm for concurrency control.^[7]